Today as I was pondering when to leave the office for my lunch break I was told there was an empty Rivergate train leaving with a CP unit on the point. I finished up what I was working on and made my way down to the depot just to see the train curve around towards 8th street. Not only did it have a CP AC4400 on the point, its sole other power was another CP AC4400 and it had a uniform set of Canpotex gray hoppers. Even though the weather was dark and quite crappy, this was a good catch and needed to be shot.
After checking that nothing was being demolished yet at 8th Street, I drove east and parked in the gravel lot on the south side of the tracks near Wintler Park, and walked back up and across to find a photo angle. Given the gray skies I decided to go with a 300mm telesmash and ended up shooting a couple shots… the first would’ve played right into the hands of those headlight blob guys so I won’t bother showing it here. Instead you get what happens when I get a bit artsy-fartsy.
