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From November 1981, Sandpatch was at Sand Patch, PA with friends to see the B&O's Allegheny summit. [Kodachrome, Nikkormat FTn]

My favorite 1980 Honda Accord LX 5-Speed adjacent to a General Electric B23-7 at Catawba, SC in February '91. I'm not sure what became of the locomotive, but my Honda would soldier on for another year, sold at 195,000 Miles. [Kodachrome, Nikon 2020]

Our Golf was there too ..... in the parking lot. :D

A fine looking Westy and a '62 Beetle.

A priceless VW bumper sticker and a cute li'l VW camshaft. ;)

Fine looking Black River & Western 2-8-0 No. 60 at Flemington, NJ in June 1980. She was built by Alco in 1937 for Colorado sugar hauler Great Western and is still in service with the BR&W. [Kodachrome, Nikkormat FTn]

My wife and I went to a Volkswagen meet today and had a fine time despite overcast skies. One of my favorite VW GTIs is the 2007 MK5 Fahrenheit Edition and I caught one there. I'm an old skool guy and so enjoyed seeing this one as delivered with the factory wheels, paint and stance. Just a...

With its crew protected by "ghetto grills", GE E-60 956 races through Princeton Jct, NJ trailing a cloud of dust. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome, July 1978]

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's letters stand proudly on the Bush train sheds at the Hoboken, NJ terminal. These platform canopies were a unique design, eschewing the large vaulted arches which were common in the era in favor of low profile cantilevered roofs with slots centered along the...

Now 100 years old, I found this Pennsylvania Railroad keystone impressed into a branchline bridge overpass at Ringoes, NJ in 1980. [Kodachrome, Nikkormat FTn]

CNJ signal lock, Woodbridge, NJ 1981. [Kodachrome, Nikkormat FTn]

Drumhead on the rear of former Lehigh Valley Railroad business car No. 353 in Bay Head, NJ. In its glory days, the Lehigh Valley's crack passenger train was the Black Diamond, paying homage to the railroad's fortunes made in anthracite coal. [02/1983, Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

The Pennsylvania Railroad's MO Tower was located at Cresson, PA. An effort was made to relocate the tower for preservation, but when it was lifted, a main structural member broke and the tower was demolished on the spot. :( [400 ASA Ektachrome, April 1989, Nikon 2020]

Found two shots of MG Tower in my box of "seconds" I was going to throw away. Glad I took the time to sort through them. MG (Middle Grade) was built during WW-II to provide operational flexibility on the Pennsylvania Railroad's mountain grade west of Altoona, PA. Sadly MG is slated to be...

From December 1986, NS units throttle up for an ascent of the grade at Saluda, NC. Until its closure 15 years later, this was the steepest mainline railroad grade in the U.S.. [Kodachrome, Nikon 2020]

That's so perfectly stated -- I completely agree. Timing of shots was essential as well, where you had to envision exactly where you wanted the train to be in the photo before the train appeared. I'd pick out a joint bar and figured to nail the shutter when the pilot was upon it. It was still...

From March 1993, CSX Train 464 rolls through Cassatt, SC. I liked the SCL sign on the bridge, so set up this shot.

August 1983 at Rice Yard in Waycross, GA. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

Built in 1927 at Lima, OH, former Texas & Pacific 2-10-4 No. 610 visits Knoxville, TN in June 1978.

Trains pass on Norfolk Southern's "Rathole" near Tateville, KY in April 2005. This is an extraordinary line, both in its engineering and its traffic density. The nickname "Rathole" was earned as the line was built in the 1870s, with 27 smoke-filled tunnels and twisting, difficult grades. In...