A 10-pier CSX rail bridge lies just east of the Stockade and connects Schenectady (near East Front Street) with Scotia. The CSX bridge [formerly known as the Conrail or the New York Central Bridge] doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves here at suns along the Mohawk — unless it obstructs the ice flow in the River, causing our Spring Stockade floods. That neglect is surely due to our western sunset fixation. On Monday night September 14, 2009, however, sunset painted the clouds over and beyond the CSX bridge in a manner that got our attention.
In the span of a few minutes, the clouds went from predominantly pink, to mostly blue highlights, to a gray theme. Luckily, I had my camera and snapped a few photos while strolling between the Riverside Park esplanade and North Street.
The pink phase is shown above. Here are the blue and gray phases:
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Last night (Sept. 15), I returned to Riverside Park at sunset to take another look at the CSX bridge. This shot was taken from the deadend at Washington Avenue:
. . . this one, too: 
suns along the Mohawk 
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