Railfanning 6-20-2018, A

Hi, As I was scheduled to present a slide program to the Wilmington Chapter of the NRHS on June 21 friend Dale Diacont and I decided to make a three day railfan trip out of the occasion.

Dale wanted to photograph trains along the Northeast Corridor where the sun would be on the east end so we made the Martin State Airport MARC stop in Middle River, MD our first location. An eastbound Acela was first up

followed shortly by a Siemens Charger powered MARC train headed to Washington, DC (above and below) and

and an eastbound MARC train with an HHP-8 for power. As this was my first Charger on a revenue train and the HHP-8s are not common anymore on MARC (they are retired on Amtrak) this was a very good way to begin our trip.

After a quick breakfast at McDonalds we moved on to Chase, MD (behind the firehouse). A railfan at Martin State Airport had told us there was an intermodal and a coal train coming. The intermodal got by during our meal stop but we were fortunate to get the coal train with a pair of SD80MACS on the point.

We then photographed a number of Amtrak regional trains and an Acela as well as

the MARC train with the HHP-8 pushing toward Washington, DC.

The railfan we met at Martin State Airport also told us that the northbound Silver Meteor would be double headed. After photographing that train we headed for the Philadelphia area to shoot Septa trains. I'll cover that in Part B.

Thanks for looking.