STEAM !!!

Great shots! We must have been close to each other on that bridge shot at Trion! I got one that looks just like it. Going to download and post some photos. Chased 610 from Summerville all the way back to the TVRM.

 

OK, here's some of the photos I took. The first one is when I arrived in Summersville.

 

My buddy Homer was heading for the airport at Atlanta, so he had time to get some photos before heading off. Kimberly got a picture of us before he left.

 

Here one of the crew members drains an air tank.

 

1440, and they are pulling out right on time.

 

I was able to stay with the train pretty much the whole way. (Thank you Google Maps!)

 

Photo run-by at Trion.

 

610 has a really great exhaust stack sound, and the whistle is beautiful.
The crew did a good job of working both.

 

This was Kimberly and Ambers first photo run-by and they loved it. (So did I!!)

 

Leaving the town of Trion.

 

Crossing the bridge....where are you Raymond!

 

Rounding a curve. I waited at this crossing for about 20 minutes, listening to TV 610 going through the hills. It was great!

 

Pacing was excellent! Very little traffic. The TVRM crew did an excellent job of running this locomotive. It was fired beautifully. They made a nice day worth every mile!

 

Look at this clean stack at 25mph. Awesome!

 

Distance shot. What year is it??

 

While waiting on this bridge, a man pulled up in a truck and asked if I was waiting for the train. I told him yes, and he pulled over and two women got out of the truck with him. He said they had NEVER heard or seen a real steam engine, and they were sitting at his house a couple miles away and he heard it, and told them to get in the truck, they were going to find it.
Here, they got a great experience, as this crossing was right before the bridge. Oh how the steam whistle can move people........