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From June 1991 at Columbia, SC, a Norfolk & Western caboose brings up the rear of a Norfolk Southern train. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

From 06/09/1997, westbound serpent at Winona, AZ. The railroad calls this location Darling. Railroads sometimes apply different names for places on their lines, often stemming from names applied long ago before modern times or from a want to shorten a name to make it easier to write or...

I've made the same choice a number of times with decades of railroad photography, recognizing repercussions from trespassing or recognition of safety risk when the only spot is too close to the tracks and I have no immediate exit route. It's indeed frustrating to give up a shot, but it shows...

My 228 HP vs the Aiken Railway's 2250 HP :) [D5100, 09/20/2025]

August 1980, Jersey Transit (aka Jersey Train Set) GE U34CH 4181 at Port Jervis, NY. Made in 1973, this class of locomotive has long since been retired. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

Ah, never mind. I now find that NX Studio will not process jpgs.

Seen yesterday on a church marquee ..... Who invented fractions? Henry the 1/8th

From yesterday in the overcast at Kings Mountain, NC. [D5100]

I downloaded Nikon's NX Studio yesterday and all went well with the installation, but I can't figure out how to process jpgs. The various editing screens are grayed out and show only RAW. How do I access the editing features for jpgs? I tried watching some YouTube videos, but can't find one...

At 108 years old and still operating, that's a rare and beautiful locomotive. Thanks for posting these -- a fine sight. (y)

What is this guy? I love the shot.

I lived in Butler, NJ about 30 miles north of Newark. The picture was taken at Sand Patch, PA, just over the MD state line northwest of Cumberland, MD. It's where the B&O RR (CSX today) crested the Alleghenies and it's where my Nikonites moniker came from. These same friends and I took a lot...

This is one of my favorites, taken Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 west of Cumberland, MD with a Nikon EL-2 on Kodachrome. I was living in NJ at the time and someone got the idea to pile a bunch of us into a friend's '64 Dodge Dart and drive 300 miles south to see trains. So there we went...

Agreed. I have a cheap one that often frustrates me. Even screwing the foot into the camera base is difficult. The manufacturer chose a teeny tiny thumbscrew that evades adult-sized fingers. Plus, the whole thing is wobbly. I find myself steadying it with my hands as a train approaches. A...

Sorry to read of this @crashton. I pray that your burdens are made less and that your life can get back on course. 🙏

Refueling Amtrak's Gulf Breeze at Greenville, AL. [11/04/1990, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Hoppers in tow behind 8,800 HP at Union Point, GA, ten years ago in August 2015. [D5100]

Black River & Western's 2-8-0 No. 60 at Ringoes, NJ in July 1985, built 1937. She's currently out of service for an inspection, but will return. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Simpson, SC, 07/30/2025 with my aged D5100. I was running an errand far from home and saw railroad signal indications that a train was coming, so went to this spot to set up. I'd wanted to get this shot for a long time, but the location is very close beside a highway and isn't a safe place to...

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 Instamatic 126, plastic lens, square viewfinder and all. A year later, I was given my Dad's old 35mm Kodak Retina Reflex (as my older brother had also used)...