I recall a trip with my parents from Knoxville to New York when I was about
seven or eight years old. We boarded a Southern Railway train pulled by a
steam locomotive. Somewhere along the way -- West Virginia or Pennsylvania, I
think -- much to my horror, although we were still in the same car, I could see
looking out the window that we now were being pulled along by an electric
engine. They must have made the swap under cover of darkness because it came
as quite a shock to me. With no smoke and those ugly wires overhead, I recall
being quite upset. I think it left me scarred for life when it comes to rail
travel.
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind taking a ride one of those 200 mph monorail
thingies I see occasionally on the Discovery Channel. I suppose I could swap
smoke for speed at least once. What shutter speed should I use on an OM so as
not to have the countryside be a blur?
Walt
--
"Progress might have been all right
once, but it's gone on too long." -- Ogden Nash
-------------- Original message from Matthew Born : --------------
> One of my sidetrips on the first leg of a vacation this summer was to
> Scranton, PA (USA), the relatively new home of Steamtown. I (and my 4
> year-old son, Gus) spent a while photographing one of the Big Boys. Shot
> some Delta 400, used the OM1 and a 50. Walked right up to it and got lots of
> detail shots of those 6 foot high wheels. What a machine that sucker was.
> (Though unlike Walt I have to admit I am also quite fond of diesels,
> especially the classics.) In a nice twist, our second vacation took us to
> Vermont, including Bellows Falls, original home of Steamtown and the place
> where as a child I first saw Big Boy. There we took a ride behind the Green
> Mountain Railroad's beautiful ALCO RS. One of my son's favorite books is an
> old history of the Rutland Railroad, which pictures the very same ALCO #405
> in several photos. Gus' head fairly exploded when, on the ride, we crossed
> in front of a covered bridge -- the very same location of his favorite image
> in the book. The coming together of his favorite book, his favorite engine
> (he calls it Percy after the little green engine in Thomas stories), AND his
> favorite scene (aka "Percy's covered bridge") was almost too much for him to
> handle. He excitedly fired off a few shots with his little Nikon P&S as we
> "flew by" at 20mph. This was a summer I'll remember a long, long time.
>
> Matthew Born
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