Passenger Trains > Like a Bat Outta Patrick!

Patrick?  Yeah, I'd never heard of it either.   But I found the spot on a topo map where I'd taken this, and the closest name on the map was "Patrick". 
Huh. 
Okay.
SR

Amtrak #6, at track speed, crossing the Truckee River near Patrick, Nevada.  (East of Reno)

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I like it. Great lighting and composition.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

Thanks, PhotoBob!
SR

Maybe Patrick is a cat?
Maybe this is Patrick?
SR

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Excellent, SR!  Love the backlighting and have many good memories of running "out on the sand" to Lovelock years ago.  I had an interesting way of remembering the siding locations out there by using an acroynm: "SVHPCTF, DHM, UP, OT, GP":  "Sometimes very happy people can talk forever; deadheads move Union Pacific, on time, w/good pay."
Translation: Sparks, Vista, Hafed, PATRICK, Clark, Thisbe, Fernley, Darwin, Hazen, Massie, Upsal, Parran, Ocala, Toy, Granite Point, Perth...   Soooo, I kinda used some of my "alco-demic" learning from college on the RR, too--haha!
Quick quiz question:  "Do you know who Thisbe was?!?"  (DO NOT use Google,here!  Top of the head only....  Clue:  He's found in a literary masterpiece!)   So, I wrote my old College English prof Dr.Donald Michie, and told him that I used my English degree in a way since I instantly knew who Thisbe was!  Lol



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I recall seeing a picture of this bridge some years back. It was mentioned there was a bit of a mishap between a train & the structure, hence the greater number of rivets (bolts?) on the right side beam. 

Desmond Praetzel "4451 Puff"

Very nice shot!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

I am familiar with these names "out on the sand" but I didn't know who Thisbe was.  So forgive me. I had to Google it.

JB - Omaha



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