October 30, 2008

There were 3 posts published on October 30, 2008 (this is page 1 of 1).

Virginia Autumn Excursion Train is this weekend

Attention photogs: the N.C. Transportation Museum’s Virginia Autumn Excursion Train is running Saturday and Sunday. It will leave Spencer Shops at 7 AM and then leave Greensboro’s Amtrak station at 8:15 AM before heading through the rolling Piedmont on the way to Charlottesville, VA.

While riding through rolling hills in a beautifully-restored passenger rail car is exciting, the $135 ticket price for coach seating is a bit more than I can justify. The real show will be taking place outside of the train as these vintage rail cars pass through the scenic countryside. As a railfan and a photographer, seeing this rolling steel pass over hills bursting with autumn colors may be too much to pass up. The ultimate trestle shot is calling me!

My plan is to meet the train in Greensboro after carefully studying the track route in Google Earth to find the best vantage points. I’ll spend a few hours chasing it north before returning to Raleigh for the night. If you’d like to join me, drop me a line. We can coordinate our stops, leap-frogging stops and sharing shots so that every crossing is covered.

North Raleigh bank robbery

Says here that a bank was robbed this morning at 9650 Falls of the Neuse. The getaway vehicle was parked in my old Windsor Forest neighborhood on a street called Grassington Way behind our former home.

Little did the suspect know but at least two Raleigh police officers live on Grassington Way, one on either end. That might be why the robber was arrested an hour after the holdup. It also takes at least 20 minutes to walk from the bank to the car, and that walk is in plain view along busy Durant Road.