Those who’ve been foolish enough to follow along over the years (especially my photos on Flickr) have probably noticed a certain fascination for the railroad tracks that run through the middle of town. Sunday, as WeatherGirl and I biked home from Prairie Pioneer Days (the local summer community festival here, where she had been part of a fine dance performance), we were blocked by a train that was shunting right in the middle of town. We headed up to one of the only 5 roads in town that cross the tracks, where we saw that not only was the offending train eventually heading our way, but that there was another train heading the opposite direction that was waiting for all this shunting to be finished as well.
I had my camera gear (I’d been taking photos of the dance), and this was just too cool an opportunity to pass up. So I parked my bike and took way too many train pictures, including a pretty cool panorama.
Here we have the shunting train in the foreground (which was parked), the other trained blurred in the middle distance as it moves to the right, and the crossing guard visible between the cars of both trains.
Now if only there were still a passenger service in Morris. Sigh.
Passenger service in Morris would be DA BOMB. Y’all don’t even have Greyhound service, which sucks. Being a college town you’d think there would be robust ways to get to the cities. From the handy train map hanging in the hall (real old school, that one) that rail line doesn’t go along much in the way of populated areas. Unfortunately :P