A "Maritime" Runby - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (August 31 2008)
Channel: bullfrog1954
Date: 11/06/2011

Up until recently I've been shooting train runbys, but one day by the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal I saw a ship and... Anyway, we open in Delaware City (what city??) then pick up (what I believe to be part of) the original DE 9 to the canal (note the strange names on the sign at the turn!). After seeing a ship fading away to the east we then spot another to the west-coming our way! It's a freight ship of sorts. Took long enough to pass us-but we got our first "maritime" runby (sail-by, or whatever they call it) as folks in speed boats fly by it-and don't wipe out in the wake! We then head to Delaware Seashore State Park (south of Port Penn) to catch up to the ship in the Delaware River/Bay as it passes a nuclear plant that's on the Jersey side. Still-totally different experience getting a runby of a "slow" ship-I think the Ma & Pa RR ran faster than this!! (P.S. Imagine how long it would take to back up the ship and try it again!!)