Recent content by Sandpatch

Working the hump at Southern Railway's John Sevier Yard at Knoxville, TN. [01/1980, Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

So very sad and an ongoing trend in the pulp and paper industry that I spent my career in.

Yep, I ordered two replacements from Amazon for my D5100. They're not Nikon brand, but they are of good quality.

Very nice, and in period black and white. Looks like an Alco S-2, maybe at a tourist railroad or an industry? These were produced in the 1940s and maybe into the early 1950s, so are quite a neat find. Where did you see this?

Track maintenance machines like the one you found often look like Rube Goldberg creations, don't they? 😊

Taken 37 years ago today in 1988 at Georgiana AL, a caboose brings up the rear on a coal train. Cabooses were beginning to disappear at the time and today, even coal trains are an increasingly rare sight. A branchline to Anddalusia, AL and beyond departs the mainline at left. [Nikon N2020...

Studebaker steering wheel. [D5100, 11/2012]

Union Pacific locomotives lead a Norfolk Southern train at Blythewood, SC in June 2022. With the nearest Union Pacific tracks over 600 miles away, this was a fun sight, including even a red Canadian Pacific locomotive third back. North American railroads often lend locomotives to assist...

Taken exactly 48 years ago today on 06/16/1977 at Knoxville, Tennessee, Southern Railway Model NW-2 #1064. She was built in 1948 and worked for the Southern until 1980 when it was sold to a shipbuilder in Louisiana. I suspect that the 1064 met the scrapper's torch decades ago. [Nikkormat FTn...

From today, a short CSX "local" train at Columbia, SC. Lead locomotive 6569 was built in 1980, but was recently completely rebuilt at CSX's Huntington, WV Shops to modern standards. Locomotives are expensive, so railroads do all they can to recycle and reuse. [D5100]

1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Tail Fin [D5100]

On the other end of the steam locomotive scale is Norfolk & Western 1218, a 2-6-6-4. [April 1988, Attalla, Alabama, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

That's a super fine shot Bill! (y) That's a li'l 0-4-0T "saddletanker" (so named because its water supply is carried over its boiler like a saddle) that carries its own fuel and water without need for a tender behind it.

Got a derailment? Who ya gonna call? Bucyrus! One of the oldest names in cranes, power shovels and mining equipment, Bucyrus was founded in 1880 and was bought by Caterpillar in 2010. They were a well-known name in railroading. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X, 1976]

From my black and white days in 1975 at Fox Lake IL, a model E-9 locomotive in commuter train service on the Milwaukee Road, built in 1961. She was later saved at a museum in Green Bay WI, but the locomotive was in terrible shape by then and after being stored outside for some years, it was...