Boom Scenario
Empty streets. Quiet but for the grinding rumble of snowplow blades scraping the pavement. Fresh snow underfoot. More than two feet between Friday and Saturday. A city paralyzed. And beauty all around.
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Bridges and Rubble
Looking north into Maryland from West Virginia as a freight train rolls south on the leftmost bridge, with the remnants of a third on the right. The rocky outcrop is where Potomac Bridges was taken.
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Crumbling Station
The westbound platform of the Amtrak station in Harper’s Ferry, looking toward the Potomac River just after sunset.
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Potomac Bridges
Looking down on Harper’s Ferry from the trail above the river.
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Clearing
An opening along the trail above Harper’s Ferry.
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Ridgeline Camp
Where in 1862, the Union Army hunkered down for its eventual battle with the Confederates.
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Broken Barn
From early winter, an old tree and dilapidated barn on the street where I grew up.