I got boiled taking this one

The temperature is about 100 degrees hotter in this shot from my last posting. It's at Manassus, Virginia just south of Washington DC on a hot, sultry, Virginia night. The Southern Railway excursion train is making it's way back to DC after a long day running through the Kudzu of south central Virginia. The train is using the classic 1950's streamlined passenger locomotives that the Southern was still using in the mid 1980s.

In the 80s, Manassus was still a small town located out in the country. Great place to hang out at the depot, watch the freights roll by, and guzzle cold RC Colas while waiting for this to arrive. We had been up since way early in the morning to chase this train, and welcomed the chance to sit still and rest a bit. Once we got these shots, we were more than ready to retire to our air conditioned motel rooms to catch some sleep and get prepped for more chasing the next day.