I’m standing on the bridge carrying Pennsylvania Route 5 over the CSX Erie West Subdivision tracks west of Lake City, Pennsylvania, on April 27, 2008
Amtrak’s eastbound Lake Shore Limited is making good time as it heads toward its next station stop of Erie, Pennsylvania.
It is early morning and the rising sun is creating strong back lighting that mutes the colors, but provides a nice glint on the side of the passenger cars.
It is the type of image that when I made it I didn’t like how it turned out. Years later I decided to scan the slide to see what I could do with it.
Upon further review I decided that I liked the glint because it nicely draw out the profiles of the different generations of passenger cars on Train 48.
There are two Heritage fleet members, a baggage car and dining car, three Viewliner sleepers and a string of Amfleet coaches and a food service car.
The differences in how those cars were designed and constructed show up well here even if the image is not all that colorful. It almost appears to be a hybrid with elements of black and white and color photography.
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Amtrak in the Heartland 
December 30, 2022 at 3:58 pm |
Are you sure that’s the LSL in PA? There’s no Boston section on the train.
March 21, 2023 at 2:35 am |
Mr. Sanders, I hope all is well with you and that this post from the end of December 2022 is not your last…
April 4, 2023 at 10:52 pm |
Yes it is the Lake Shore Limited, Train 48/448. The route crosses a short section of Pennsylvania
that borders Lake Erie.