A Row Of Sailboats All Along the Horizon On Lake Michigan
August 13, 2008. Chicago, Illinois.
Sail boats out on Lake Michigan. Photo © Tom Gatermann.
RSM Newsprint Train - Illinois Terminal Highline Bridge
In the spring of 2004, I came across Railroad Switching Service of Missouri's (RSM) newsprint train, which delivered boxcars of newsprint to the St. Louis Post Dispatch in downtown St. Louis. This switching operation utilized the Illinois Terminal's (ITS) former Highline Bridge in North St. Louis, as well as the former ITS subway tunnel under the northern edge of downtown. I was lucky to come across this operation and capture the few images that I did because a few months after I took these images, the delivery of newsprint to the St. Louis Post Dispatch ended in June 2004. I was able to photograph the newsprint delivery operation on a couple of different days, but the following photographs are from only one of those days.
In the first image, above, RSM 2020 (sometimes referred to as RSSM 2020) shoves a pair of empty boxcars south from Branch Street. The crew would set out the empty boxcars at the southern end of this small rail yard, and then pickup the loaded boxcars of ne…
In the first image, above, RSM 2020 (sometimes referred to as RSSM 2020) shoves a pair of empty boxcars south from Branch Street. The crew would set out the empty boxcars at the southern end of this small rail yard, and then pickup the loaded boxcars of ne…
Marvelous shot, Tom. That's a beautiful sky and the color of the water is fantastic, both perfect backgrounds for the clarity of the boats. I'd love to be on any one of those at the moment.
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Ann Kennedy. It was a great evening out on the lake, and the light was perfect.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Urszula Masilela.
ReplyDeleteUNA VISTA SPETTACOLARE CON BARCHE VELA.BUONASERA DA ITALIA E TOSCANA.
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