Comments on: Out of the woods the Tin Woodsman cometh! Sorry – but what with the painted face and upended pail on the roof vent of the little repurposed signal shack on the crane’s flat car, I couldn’t help but think of the character from the Wizard of Oz! Hearing something like a coffee truck or dump truck air horn sounding a Rule 14(L) at the South Lancelot Road crossing, I whipped on down to Mile 138 to see this Ohio rail crane preceded by a Hi-Rail truck. Having only my 100-400mm lens with me (I’d been loading the car up with empties for the beer store and didn’t expect to see a train, rather I was kinda hoping to get a shot of the cougar of the quadruped, NOT biped variety, that’s been hanging around my property there lately) I couldn’t get far enough back to get a shot of it out in the open. I fired off one shot of it partially obstructed there then headed down to the big curve at Utterson (Mile 146) to get this shot as I knew that section of track would be clear of foreground clutter.

By: BradKetchen

BradKetchen — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 11:11:42 +0000

And the rusty looking tree to the right. Is it fall already?

Driver8666 — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 18:54:17 +0000

No offense, looks like an outhouse with eyes. lol. Weird, but nice shot.

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 12 Jul 2016 00:07:20 +0000

Nice shot. Not often you see these in operation.