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Colorful li'l Fiat 500s awaiting sale.

From the Wayback Machine (as crashton calls it :cool:) is this low-rez Kodachrome scan from July 1980, probably taken with my Dad's old Nikon EL-2. We're at Benny Interlocking, just east of the tunnels at Gallitzin as two Conrail SD-45 helpers drop downgrade for another shove.

Since this is Independence Day in the U.S.A., I thought I'd post a picture of an N Scale Bicentennial caboose I bought in 1976 when my country was 200 years old and I was young. I thought it was pretty neat when I got it and am still happy to have it, original bulky couplers and all. This...

Also spotted om the L&C is the 9548, a former Canadian National widecab awaiting repainting. The front door is open to provide a bit of air circulation for the crew on a hot day.

The L&C also has a historic general office and a neat HO model railroad upstairs that closely replicates the entire railroad. I want to return again for some scenic photos of L&C trains twisting their way through the pines.

Checked out South Carolina's little Lancaster & Chester shortline yesterday and found a booming line, with trains everywhere. It was once owned by a textile firm, but was sold to some very smart railroaders who have expanded its miles and its carloads. The line is all jointed rail in need of...

Caught NS's Erie Heritage Unit this afternoon on Train 192. I'm on the Columbia (SC) side of the Congaree River here. Typical overcast summer afternoon light. After the shot, I was somehow able to hike out, jump in my pickup, get stopped by the train at a crossing and drive to the yard in...

As I waited, I was amazed at the number of young people who used NS's bridge as a shortcut across the river. This bridge is probably 50 FT above the river, about two football fields long and there are few, if any, emergency places to stand on. More people came along later and were casually...

Went out yesterday to again try for some photos of trains on the two Congaree River bridges in Columbia, SC. After getting covered in gooey mud earlier in the week on the Columbia side of the river, I reverted to the other side in Cayce, SC. The shots required some wait time, but it's a...

EVERYTHING went wrong here. I was exploring for a new railroad photo spot by the river. I found myself in slick, gooey mud and slipped down a steep slope in the process. I was fine, but my shoes, clothes, hands and camera bag (with camera safely inside) were covered in mud. Then a train...

Adjusting the focus helped quite a bit, but I can still see some blurriness sometimes. I noticed that the eyepiece focus adjustment is now set to the very last click. What's interesting is that some shots are sharp and others not quite so. The face of my kid's stuffed animal is sharp, but the...

From the City of Toronto Archives collection, I found this somewhat old photo of the John Street roundhouse. It's almost as if the CP and Nikon are inviting fans to stop by. ;)

When I was young, Es and Fs were eternal fixtures on C&NW commuter trains. This F was captured at Mt. Prospect, IL on June 23, 1975. These photos are all scanned from old prints. I was crazy about locomotives when I was young, so I tightly cropped the prints. I'm hoping that the negatives...

Another b&w shot from the Nikkormat FTn about 1975, this one from Deval interlocking at Des Plaines, IL where a C&NW freight makes its way north from Chicago toward Milwaukee. The train is crossing over the C&NW's triple track Harvard Subdivision, busy with commuter trains. Guess which...

It's such an architecturally varied city that it's hard to go wrong with photography most anywhere. Boat tours are also offered if you wish for skyline photos. My teen took this shot of Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) with my wife's Nikon P100.

Taken today at NS's Hayne Yard in Spartanburg, SC is this CN unit a long way from home.

From June 1975 in Skokie, IL we find the Skokie Swift, as operated by the Chicago Transit Authority. This car was part of a series built in 1959-1960. A number of these durable cars are preserved today at the Illinois Railway Museum and other locations. These were the only cars on the CTA...

I can no longer recall exactly where I took this, but I think it was Far Hills, NJ. In any case, it's the summer of '76 and we're on the former Lackawanna Gladstone Branch headed to Hoboken and those are Lackawanna mu cars dating from 1930 which ran by the hundreds at the time. Upon...

From September 1975, a C&NW "scoot" bangs over the EJ&E at Barrington, IL northwest of Chicago. The EJ&E-owned tower was razed in 2006.

I think this one was from a year earlier in the summer of '75, probably with my Dad's old Kodak Retina Reflex 35mm. It was a durable camera, made in West Germany I think, with interchangeable lenses and a no-battery light meter. We're on the platform at Chicago's Union Station as an E glides past.