Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thursday Arch Series

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Arch 2012-04-07 2

Nothing spectacular. This is a view from East St. Louis, Illinois, where the railroad tracks run along the Mississippi. Our area is a big freight junction where several carriers' lines cross. They have a cooperative to haul the freight cars from yard to yard, the Terminal Railroad Association. I love the name, like it's the last one ever. It sounds as if the industry has a terrible disease: after this locomotive passes, the railroad will be dead. Code blue, stat!

14 comments:

Olivier said...

l'arche protectrice de la ville, c'est une belle vue avec le train en premier plan

lewi14@gmail.com said...

Wow. What a great shot of your famous arch. But the red railway is an eye-cather too. Have a nice day.

cieldequimper said...

Dunno about death but at first I thought this was a fire train!

Pat said...

Like the old question, why do they call airport sections 'terminals'? Nasty thought... Love this 'toy' train.

Kate said...

You have a wonderful and varied ways of displaying that arch!

Halcyon said...

A great combination with the beautiful red train and the arch behind. I like it!

William Kendall said...

Nice shot!

Birdman said...

It almost looks like a toy... choo, choo!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

I really like the image Bob, but I love your wordage, very funny..code blue hey, where would you even start the resuscitation haha!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

p.s in answer to your question about suits in Perth, there are a lot of snazzy dressers despite the heat, I'm very happy to say P is NOT one of them!!

Intangible Hearts said...

You waited and waited until a red train came down the tracks?

Jack said...

A stately image. I am trying to envision what you might have had if you had panned the train, or slowed the speed to let the train's motion show, or had used bokeh, or . . . . .

Unknown said...

Great background for this cute red train!

Nathalie said...

The red train does it of course - here's to another great Arch shot.
Code blue? I've learnt something today!