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Norfolk Southern 8556 leads at Harriman TN, March 1990. They called these 'Hammerheads" in recognition of their shark-like profile. [Nikon N2020, Kodachome]

October 1983 at Lehighton, PA. A fantrip has been arranged to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Philadelphia & Reading RR. The locomotive is a Canadian Pacific 4-6-0. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

The New Haven. I'm pretty sure the line and bridge remain in service so that tourist line Cape Cod Central RR out on the Cape at Hyannis has access to the outside world.

Railroad lift bridge over the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzard's Bay, MA in June 1992. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

September 1989 at McPherson Square Station on the Washington DC Metro. I slowed the shutter speed to blur the train. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Wow, that's an awesome photograph. I saw in a TV special on the Chesapeake Bay that ospreys are expert at fishing and they compete with eagles, who are less adept at it. The eagles, being stronger and more adept at flying, will sometimes swoop in on ospreys and take their fish, sometimes in...

Cayce SC, 03/16/1993. Nikon N2020, Kodachome.

Maintenance crew and machinery. Balcony Falls, VA, 04/02/2013, D5100. Sadly, the station has since been demolished.

Two from today along the Saluda River near Columbia, SC. [D5100]

I'd never heard of these, but after studying your photograph I had a pretty clear notion of what was going on there and did a little reading about them. Your Table looks great! (y)

A friendly wave from a crewman as a freight train works downgrade at Bennington, PA. [July 1980, Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

August 1990 at Binfield, TN when coal was king. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

February 1992, Crawfordville, GA. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Wow, lots of great shots posted @Marilynne. This one of the boat is especially neat I think.

This was Mifflin Tower at Mifflin PA, one of classic Pennsylvania Railroad design, then owned by Conrail. It was open at the time (May 1981), but was closed and demolished several years later. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

Hahha! Sounds like a place I'd like to call home. :)

NASSAU Tower at Princton Jct., NJ in July 1978. It was built in 1944. Railroad towers were often named and this one was named for Nassau Hall on the nearby Princeton University campus. Nassau Tower has since been remotely controlled and is closed today, but it still stands. [Nikkormat FTn...

That's a beautifully maintained right-of-way @Needa. Those trains run pretty fast, right?

I've not been able to get out to take pictures as much as I'd have liked, but I did get this one of an empty northbound grain train in South Carolina. [D5100, 01/19/2025]

This afternoon's empty grain train 51D moves north at Simpson, SC. [D5100]