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Thank you. I took a look, but found that "Contrast Themes" change or reverse colors to make tools such as Excel and Word easier to see. Each of the options produce a radically different screen not intended for adjustment. Sigh. There's also a tool to adjust text readability, but that doesn't...

Looking around on the Internet, I'm not the only one who's noticed what I have. It's a Windows 11 thing some say.

Reading your post, I took a fresh look at where I sit and if need be, I now think that I can move some things and place a small monitor on a low nearby shelf. My new laptop has only USB Ports (2 Ea A and 1 Ea C) and an HDMI out. I need to educate myself on monitors to see if any of these will work.

I bought a new Windows 11 HP laptop to replace my 14 year old laptop running Windows 10 and am frustrated to find there's no way to adjust basic contrast on the display. I find that it's a known problem. There's a "color contrast" calibration, but it provides no improvement. There seems to be...

From January 1980 at the Louisville & Nashville Railroad station at Knoxville, TN. I wanted to get a time exposure of this sign lit up at night, but I moved before I was able to. That neon would have looked great. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

From 40 years ago in October 1985 at Montgomery, AL. In the background is Montgomery Union Station and its trainshed, both of which survive today. Crews disliked the steps on these, calling them "shin barkers". It was hard to climb up without barking your shin on the second step. [Nikon...

The human element is gone as well, a victim of the FRED. :confused: Most everyone enjoyed a friendly wave from the caboose. [About 1975, Plus-X, Nikkormat FTn]

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...