A Thoroughbred coal train crosses the Susquehanna River on the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Bridge. Built in 1924 by the Reading Railroad, this bridge has 51 arches, three more than its famous PRR neighbor, Rockville Bridge.
Here is the February 2013 calendar shot by Bruce Kerr who is a locomotive engineer in Harrisburg, Pa.
It’s a good thing Bruce Kerr counts climbing among his hobbies. For this photo, Kerr had to climb a 13-foot mound of dirt, stones, and boulders to get to the right vantage point. “Between the shifting dirt, the clouds, the bugs, sumac trees in the way that I had to cut, and getting a train at just the right time, it’s difficult to get this shot to come together,” Kerr says. “But I like climbing, and it’s worth it to get a good picture.” In fact, Kerr doesn’t mind shinnying up a tree to get a better perspective, and he keeps a set of climbing pegs with his camera.
“There’s nothing that improves the look of a shot more than elevation,” Kerr notes. “Looking back, I wish I had climbed the tree to the right of the mound. I think I could have gotten more of city in the photo.”
— with Bruce Kerr.
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