Undecorated

You model railroaders should be able to figure out the meaning of this one pretty quick.

Now if only I knew WHY V52 doesn't have the VRE decal on her nose... It was there in January when I last shot this unit. Just found out via one of VRE's engineers @ RR.net: "V52 suffered a big boo-boo at the hands of a BIG tree on the RF&P, busted the headlite, one of the ditch lights, dented the nose and snapped the wiper arms."

Anyway, trying something a little different this time with the PP style. Works for MY monitor settings, but it's probably a bit low on contrast for everyone else. Certainly not my best work, but I really wanted to put something railroad-related up here, and this is the only chance I've had to shoot lately.

VRE V52 MPI MP36PH-3CT2R
S/B Manassas Train No. 329
NS Piedmont Division, Washington District, CP Crestwood @ MP 22.6, Main 1

Burke, VA
March 2011

<sub>Nikon D90 DSLR
Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D

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