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budda
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| | | | It's like watching a train wreck, except holy shit that just happened! < on 5/31/2015 7:42 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | After an afternoon of striking out, Liyah, Brine, Granuaile and I decended upon Hudepohl Brewery to catch a photo of the Cincinnati sign, since it's an easy location. The building has been recently completely gutted, and we had all been probably a dozen times, but the rooftop view is awesome, and the sign was supposedly purple and black in honor of a fallen firefighter. The sign is more than an eyesore. Blocky, lazy design, with needlessly lowercase i's. It's kinda a slap in the face to the skyline behind it, but since it's a rare opportunity, and I had a "new" $30 1980s Vivitar super zoom to test out, I was nonetheless excited, although I had no idea how interesting the night was going to be. In true Cincinnati fashion, we were all of course too late to catch the sign purple. It had returned to it's usual dull grey color. But we hung out anyway to enjoy some smokes, in the comforting breeze of an oncoming storm. IMGP1346 by itsbudda, on Flickr That's when it happened. Our attention was diverted a block over to the train tracks, where a train was slowing down. Suddenly, 5 of the loudest bangs I have ever heard in my life echoed throughout the whole city as the train cars started violently crashing into one another. "It's derailing!!" After that the scene was eerily silent. Brine shouted "We gotta go!" as the rest of us kinda stood in disbelief. It was a little hard to see at this angle and I had to be sure if it actually happened, so I zoomed in and took a quick picture. Sure enough at least 4 of the cars are pretty fucked. Liyah and I stayed and took a Couple more shots as Granuaile and Brine booked it. We soon followed. We knew we had a narrow window to get out of there. IMGP1356 by itsbudda, on Flickr We ran and met them at the scene, where surprisingly no one was there, or seemed to notice, save for one guy who parked his car and was taking surely useless photos with his smartphone flash. Brine called it in to police, as apparently we were pretty much the only witnesses, and we weren't sure if the Conductor even knew. IMGP1358 by itsbudda, on Flickr IMGP1361 by itsbudda, on Flickr About 5-10 minutes past. As the rain began to come in, it was then we saw the reflection of police lights on the trailers. We had time to take one last shot before having to move, so it had to be great. Success? IMGP1364 by itsbudda, on Flickr Then More cops rolled in. IMGP1377 by itsbudda, on Flickr IMGP1394 by itsbudda, on Flickr As well as a flabberghasted CSX worker who was having a really bad day. IMGP1367 by itsbudda, on Flickr Then the news showed up. IMGP1385 by itsbudda, on Flickr Then more cops. IMGP1411 by itsbudda, on Flickr And more.... IMGP1412 by itsbudda, on Flickr As Liyah and I continued to shoot away. The police were very polite, and gracious with letting us stick around and shoot pics. There was somewhat of an excitement in the air as this was their first train derailment too, peppered with a hint of "Oh shit well what do we do about this?" It was a shift change. They had all pretty much just gotten to work. Needless to say they had an interesting day. We all did. IMGP1419 by itsbudda, on Flickr IMGP1421 by itsbudda, on Flickr IMGP1435 by itsbudda, on Flickr
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