In this week’s Saturday Infrared photo, we catch a loaded Strasburg steam locomotive 89 as it pulls a passenger train out of Strasburg, PA on October 7th, 2024. Strasburg has a pull-push operation, where on the outbound trip the engine pulls the train in reverse and on the return move it leads the train, after running around it in a siding at Paradise, PA.
According to Wikipedia: The Strasburg Rail Road (reporting mark SRC) is a heritage railroad and the oldest continuously operating standard-gauge railroad in the western hemisphere, as well as the oldest public utility in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Chartered in 1832, the Strasburg Rail Road Company is today a heritage railroad offering excursion trains hauled by steam locomotives on 4.02 mi of track in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, as well as providing contract railroad mechanical services, and freight service to area shippers. The railroad’s headquarters are outside Strasburg, Pennsylvania.
Tech Info: Fuji XT-1, RAW, Converted to 720nm B&W IR, Nikon 10-24 @12mm, f/4.5, 1/500, ISO 200.