Caption: Sunset for Sentinels: While a few people were out photographing OSR's first run on the rest of the Cayuga - I was blissfully unaware instead focused on my final photographs of some Searchlights that I had been planning for months. With limited time in my schedule to 'get out' a final warm and sunny afternoon, a weekend, and 3 hours of free time put me on the 401 to mile 76.2 hoping, praying, that the gods of CP might send me a westbound. Imagine my dismay when I arrive and hear the EOT frequency blaring, then the detector at mile 83.4 going off - bollocks. I missed a westbound, or so I figured. Train 147 usually ran at that time of day. Not to be dismayed, I remembered the words I supplicated to the CP gods and stayed put. Sure enough, some horns out Blandford way briefly jolted my senses alert, rats, only an eastbound - and darn, this meant I'd have no westbound train! With 10 minutes of light left, I was certain that any possibility of a train at Wolverton meeting this eastbound, and making it to the Sentinels at 76.2 were slim to none. But out in the distance I saw the silhouette of a single unit wonder with oil tanks.. could it be? An oil train? They often have DPU... On cue, I set up my shot, just as the moon started rising on the horizon and watched as many dozens of black DOT111a's blast by me. Among the metallic squeals and bass of the empty tank cars I could hear the growing whine of an accelerating AC4400. As the tail end DPU passed my scene I snapped a few carefully planned frames to try and get as much as I could of this moment. It will be my last - OSR can wait.

The epilogue of this is PNR is rapidly replacing the signals all along the Galt sub and so far, all Searchlights are now replaced up to Coakley on the Galt sub, with exception to the '08 installs at Wolverton. Who knows how long the last few west of Coakley will last, it won't be long.