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Knoxville, TN - Alco heaven with these taken in 1976 and 1977. C-420 1376 is former SAL and C-628 7519 is former ACL.

Some scenes at Galesburg, IL in October 1976. Amtrak SDP-40F 587 seen in the first photo was destroyed in a wreck within the next year at its birthplace at LaGrange, IL on 08-27-1977 when its train collided with a freight train that had derailed minutes before.

Some shots taken on a typical hot and muggy New Jersey day in July 1976 at the former PRR station at Newark. [Nikkormat FTn]

Speaking of GM products, it's April 1980 and grimy C&NW F-7 425 is heading a "scoot" towards its next stop at Fox River Grove, IL.

Here's a closer shot of BANK and an enlargement of the car. Maybe it will help. All GM cars looked the same to me back then, so I'm no help at all.

As seen in July 1976, a pair of battered Penn Central E Units take a commuter train out of Red Bank, NJ on the New York & Long Branch. That's the CNJ's BANK Tower at the left in the bottom shot. The tracks to the right lead to the CNJ's lines in south Jersey. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X film]

E Units at ease, Barrington, IL, about 1975.

I think I posted some of these pictures a while back, but I recently re-scanned the negatives. These were taken at Hudson, OH in July 1976 and Alco's presence was strong. Conrail is only four months old, but the paint shops have been busy with their stencils. [Nikkormat FTn]

New Jersey's Black River & Western once operated a vintage Pennsylvania Railroad "doodlebug", built by Brill in 1930. Powered by a 6-Cyl. Hamilton diesel with a 4-Cyl. Waukesha diesel for excitation and battery charging, and two-chime horn, she sounded as fine as she looked. The 4666 survives...

Taken in 1975 at North Western Station in Chicago were these time exposures using Plus-X 125 ASA film. I forget if I brought a tripod along or if I braced the Nikkormat FTn on ironwork. Everything that appears is gone today, even the classic station opened in 1911 which was replaced with a...

Thank you. I'm sure other people could do a lot better. I think the emulsion is suffering some sort of spotty degradation on a portion of my negatives, leaving hundreds of oddly shaped white spots all over the images. Others have a lot of dust spots, regardless of how much I use my rocket...

Who you gonna call when the going gets tough? The Bucyrus big hook, that's who. [07/16/1976, Kodak Plus-X, Nikkormat FTn]

My hunt for Norfolk Southern's "Heritage Unit" for the Southern Railway always seems star-crossed, with the locomotive not well positioned. It happened again this evening, with its nose coupled to another unit and its nose door open. Can't complain too much though.

Got out trackside today for the first time in many months. Caught NS 191 crossing the Congaree River in Cayce, SC. 191 was late departing, which caused me to lose a shot at another spot with NS's Erie Heritage Unit leading a freight. :( Oh well, that's railfanning.

On a beautiful Saturday April 9, 1988 at Attalla, AL, 1218 is making her first trip of the season on a Birmingham <=> Chattanooga run. [Kodachrome 64, Nikon N2020]

Here's another shot that I so wish I had captured on Kodachrome -- Burlington Northern's special Bi-Centennial locomotive 1976 at Rochelle, IL, resplendent in red, white and blue.

I miss those '70s diesel lashups, randomly mixing generations and builders to collect enough horsepower. This was taken 02/14/1976 at the Soo's yard at Schiller Park, IL near Chicago. [Plus-X, Nikkormat FT-n]

The EJ&E replaced the Baldwins with SD-38s, SD-38-2s and GP-38-2s. Boy I wish I'd have been shooting Kodachrome back then, but I was a high school kid with a basement darkroom and b&w was the only affordable route.

From about 1975 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. These are Convair 580s I think. [Kodak Plus-X, Nikkormat FT-n]

Learning how to scan b&w negatives. Some are not in good condition, but others are okay. These are from the mid-1970s in northern IL. All were processed in a basement darkroom built by my Dad for my brother and I. [Plus-X, Nikkormat FTn]