Saw this Hawk perching on some wires over my parking lot when suddenly it swooped down into an adjoining yard and came back up with a rat impaled in its talons. It then proceeded to fly to the top of a utility pole to consume the rat. Sorry for the camera shake, I was hand holding at 35x zoom. At 1:20 you can hear a freight train passing on the CSX Baltimore Terminal Sub. Sure wish we had more of these around. The rat population is out of control. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o6z5RIVJQU

The more things change the more they stay the same. After tens of millions in capacity upgrades north of the Rocky Mount, NC station to prevent this very situation, Amtrak Train 79, the southbound Carolinian, has to pull in and then back out of the second main track to allow Train 90, the northbound Palmetto to pass. Heat restrictions on CSX had both trains running late and due to a variety of circumstances there was no ability for the two trains to pass properly. The same thing happened to me in 2010 at the old BATTLE interlocking that used to be about a mile to the south. The only difference was that the re-signaling effort allowed a Restricting indication to be displayed immediately after Train 90's passage. In 2010 the old Seaboard signals could only display Stop, Limited Approach and Limited Clear. Total delay was only about 5 minutes for my Train 79. P42DC on Train 90 appears to be #11 or #17. Here's a link to the 2010 video of Train 90 passing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgzpxKe2tkY Here is a clip of the old ACL Limited Approach signal indication. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4f5-Z5vI4o ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wkxmiLkzhk