railwayhistorical reblogged
Flying Meet
A westbound Conrail train meets an eastbound Union Pacific. This occurred for former Pennsylvania tracks between Teutopolis and Montrose, Illinois. After this “flying meet” (both trains on the move), we paced the eastbound train using Highway 40, the old “National Road”.
Four images, scanned from medium-format negatives, were taken by Richard Koenig during the summer of 1996.