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I am just adding a placeholder for later with a cellphone photo I took this month. I shot nothing but film for the month. I dropped off...

Good news, its the after market batteries, both stick. I came home and tried the Nikon battery and its fine. So, cheap batteries swell...

This is one of my very first train pictures, from 51 years ago in August 1974 in suburban Chicago. It was shot with my mother's Kodak...

My son got us in to many engines for rides and looks. One evening in Somewhere, NC an engineer came out of a diner to let us in the cab...

A lot changed after 9/11. There was a memo or something from CSX informing security to chase down and question anyone with a camera...

In April of 1988 I came across this ancient C&O car shop at Thurmond, WV along the New River. Nobody was around, so I cautiously...

How neat to have seen that. You're right, turntables and roundhouses are rare and to find one in its native state is something special...

Found some oldies, circa 2009. I call this series: "That time I jumped the fence at CSX Parsons Yard and got chased by security."...

I miss 'em too and the friendly waves we used to get. Heck, even pulpwood racks as seen ahead of the SOU hack here are gone. These...

This is one of my biggest disappointments as a railfan. No more cabeese. That silly little EOT device sucks.

Closing out the day at Childersburg, AL in October 1988. The caboose era is in sunset too. Train is on the former Central of Georgia...