Photoblog of Steamtown's RailFest 2009 ...

... on the trip from Scranton to Moscow and back, mixed in with some train haiku/tanka I've written over the past few years. It's been so long since I felt like posting any po-ems of mine. Hope you enjoy!


Mighty whistle blows
as the train goes roaring past
on its photo run. 9/6/09







{Johnny holding a magazine that has that very train on its cover.}


{Real engineers!}


{Another real engineer! In the actual engine!}


{Our chariot to Moscow.}


{We had a WWII reenactor riding with us, and I kept thinking about my beloved Pop-Pop, who was in the Battle of the Bulge.}


{En route, at the bend behind the Radission Lackawanna.}

We traversed the tracks
just as Phoebe Snow once did
in a simpler time. 9/6/09


{An old-time advertisment inside the train. Please pronounce it "ad-ver-tiss-ment, kindly.}


{At the Moscow Station.}



I hear the not-so-
far-away train. My heart, a
vagabond, hops it,
wistful that somewhere out there
is a lonely heart like mine. 5/20/08



On a rolling train
she smokes, as lives rush past her;
exhaled lovers
swirl around her. Deep in thought.
On a rolling train, she smokes. 4/11/09


Fin.