An Acela Express, led by AMTK No. 2006, charges past "Lincoln" tower, just shy of Metuchen station, in a race to make New York by night fall.
The tower, once used by the PRR to control trains coming in and out of Metuchen Yard was built in 1942 and today serves as a MOW building for Amtrak. It was named after a nearby Ford automobile assembly plant, Lincoln then being Ford's luxury brand
Landscape photography is difficult due to the challenge of combining good light and good scenery. Good railroad photography enters another level of complexity since it requires the first two while there is a train in view.
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!)
