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Frederick Manfred Simon ~ Railway Industry Photographer & Multidiscipline Creative
Twilight and the first star of the evening: the headlight of this near silhouetted DPU draws the eye to itself as the sun has taken her warmth leaving another day to the cold night coming. Her receding residual light faintly beaming through the celestial prism creates a magical hue above the vast Eastern Washington horizon weaving a seamless transition from red to cobalt and vice versa. This unit oil, having just cleared West Lamphier has come to a stop. Shortly it’ll slip away and out of sight itself, down Sprague Hill heading – West. This evening I find the Lakeside Sub is a non-stop procession of westbounds jumping from one block to the next waiting for a favorable light to proceed as eastbounds in the darkness beyond look for cover in sidings the likes of Tokio, Essig, Paha, Keystone, and Sprague. It’ll be a long night for the men and women running on the hundred-forty-some-mile Lakeside. But they already know it's par for the course. (05Dec17 ©)