I was on the inbound Capitol Limited that day. Actually got a shot of the BNSF unit (barely). Our scheduled arrival time was 12.30, we finally pulled into Union Station at 6pm following a trip over the Met sub at about 15mph, with half hour plus stops every few miles, and an hour or so break at Germantown MARC station. The arrivals board at WAS showed the Cap as the only train to make it in all day.
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Not trying to take away from the seriousness of the picture (derechos are fascinating yet dangerous storms) but...we're always calling locomotives "she". This picture looks like a trio of teen or "tween" age girls making the most of a vacation (forced or otherwise) with their faces smiling (and "mugging" a bit) cheek-to-cheek for the camera. Those of us who've had teenage daughters know the latter scenes well from scrapbooks, Facebook, etc.
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Please pardon my ignorance, but what is a "derecho"? Never heard of that one before (and neither has my spellchecker). Thanks.
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It's almost like a small inland hurricane (read: with sustained straight-line winds) that in the central U.S. frequently originates from the west. The meterologists call it a "bow echo" in that there's a(n archer's) bow shape to the storm. I once saw, on a clear night when there were no stars overhead, the western sky lit up by a HUGE stroke of cloud-to-ground lightning, illuminating a gigantic cumulonimbus cloud to my west, which later became a derecho bringing near 100 mph winds and property destruction to Memphis.
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Look at that... you even caught semi-celebrity 777. I saw "her" down in a yard in Columbia, SC last July while doing some TDY at Ft. Jackson. Not many good train spotting areas down there. Nice shot. Having lived in Oklahoma for a time, I have a soft spot for BNSF.
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| Posted by Justin on August 4, 2014 | |
Yes, it's the "unstoppable" triple-7.
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