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Elsewhere in Chattanooga was found another NS train stopped and awaiting clearance to enter DeButts Yard. I was rapidly losing light, but snapped a shot anyway. As it ages, Union Pacific's "Armour Yellow" paint fades into the weathered and uninspired hue seen here. [D5100]

From last month at Chattanooga, a coal train skirts along past NS's DeButts Yard on CSX's "W&A", a vital line for the Confederacy in the Civil War. The photo spot is known as Coffey's Cliff, a favorite location for railfans. [D5100]

Tiny! Quite the antithesis of Union Pacific's "Big Boy" as seen here courtesy of @BF Hammer and @nikonbill's Nikonites posts in June and July. :)

Wow, the scale of your work is something to behold. Best not to leave a tool behind! I'm guessing this is not in the U.S.? I see no hardhats, safety glasses, gloves, steel-toed shoes and other stuff that I'd imagine would be required. I worked in paper mills and someone in Corporate...

Upon arrival, they turned the locomotives on a track arrangement known as a "wye" to properly position them for a nightime departure on a westbound train to Macon and Birmingham. I suspect the FEC 250 was dropped at Macon so as to make its way home to FL.

Yes, it was an amazing sight and quite a challenge to await its arrival and pursue photography in 98 Deg. heat! Worth it tho. It's the kind of day that gets me thinking about an upgrade for my trusty-but-aged D5100. Of the other locomotives, the train included Union Pacific's 1616, honoring...

Specially painted locomotives celebrating the USA's 250th birthday collected at the North Carolina Transportation Museum for a public event last weekend. The locomotives are now headed home to their owning railroads and four of them moved through Columbia, SC yesterday, one of which belongs to...

I used Nikon Image Space many years ago as a place to upload my pictures to other websites, but they later screwed around with the software to make the site a destination and it lost its simple functionality. I never figured out how to use it as I had before, so removed all of my pictures long...

I saw that too, a very good price indeed.

From this day in 1996 at Day, GA. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

Haha -- you are indeed a photographer with an eye for extremes. :D Thanks for including the historical marker in your pictures. I was surprised to learn that WI had narrow gauge lines.

I wonder if enjoying air conditioning while recharging extends wait time to any extent?

From 7 years ago today on 08/17/2019 at Cayce, SC. [D5100]

I remember writing a TI 99/4 program that calculated resistor values upon entering their colors and it also worked in reverse. Even added tones to each color, so it played a three note tune upon completion. Also adapted a Stocks & Bonds board game that took every bit of the 16K RAM I had...

I took a computer programming course in junior college in 1976 and caught the computer bug, hanging around the lab creating code just for the fun of it. In 1981 I bought a Texas Instruments TI-99/4 and enjoyed the heck out of it for years thereafter. It didn't sell well and TI ended production...