Cumberland, MD 5/24/2014 - The varied hues of sodium vapor lamps from street lights and signs cast a wash of different colors on the Wills Creek spillway as the eastbouund Q-394 waits its turn to enter the Cumberland yards. Stars hang over the cliffs of the Cumberland Narrows at a location on the railroad that has come to be know as "the Bud Board", for a billboard that once advertised Budweiser Beer just outside the image to the right. A new advertisement on the board casts a warm red glow on the concrete of the spillway built to control floods that once ravaged the city of Cumberland. Q-394 has had a long trip--out of Connellsville early in the afternoon, by Keystone, PA near the summit of Sand Patch around 4:30, but then not by Hyndman, PA at the bottom of the grade--just about 20 miles--until 10:30. Now, at 11:30 p.m., a new crew is on board to shuttle it the last two miles in the Cumberland yards. CSX: how it moves tomorrow.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
