Time Machines

Time Machines

These days, just static displays, but those baggage and express carts at the Perryville, Maryland station might just be old enough to remember huffing, chuffing Pennsylvania Railroad K4 steam locomotives, certainly the sleek pin-striped Pennsy GG1 electrics that succeeded them, pulling 20-car trains with names like “Congressional” or “Silver Meteor” that once upon a time stopped here.

Not that the stately old red brick PRR-built station doesn’t still serve passengers. The commuter trains of the MARC system bound for Baltimore, Washington, and intermediate stops do call here.

But Amtrak gives Perryville a pass - sometimes at dizzying speed, as this New York to Washington
Acela Express demonstrates, as it blasts through the station, following a sharp warning blast from its horn.

This moment was captured on Kodak Ektar-100 in a Canon EOS-RT
with 35-135 mm EF lens on a late afternoon in May, 2013.

©2014 Steve Ember