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Today would have been Conrail's 45th birthday. I still miss "Big Blue". This Kodachrome dates from almost 32 years ago to the day, taken in the heart of PRR country at Altoona, PA on 04/04/1989. [Nikon N2020]

Not very large, but a hard worker in the tractor tradition was our family International Harvester Cub Cadet 123 seen here in 1975. With its mighty 12 HP, my brother and I mowed neighborhood lawns all summer and cleared driveways all winter. Dad bought the gas and paid for the maintenance...

This field adjacent to the Blue Ridge Southern at East Flat Rock, NC is usually home to some dairy cows, but none were to be found while I chased the train. The farmer had a sign posted nearby which read Cow pictures are free Bulls charge :D

Thank you. I hadn't thought of a lotto win, but you might be on to something there. :) I also caught this backlit NS stacker at Fairforest, SC on the same day.

In a case of serendipity, I found Blue Ridge Southern working the most distant extremity of their line yesterday, once NS's to Saluda, NC and the famous grade, once the steepest mainline grade in the U.S. and now out of service. I'd taken a shortcut, expecting to see the usual cuts of stored...

From October 1979, L&N GE U-30C 1573 awaits its next assignment at Knoxville, TN. Not the best lighting, but what ya gonna do? [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

I finally found a nice day to wax the new GTI. I'm sure my 0-60 times are a bit quicker now. :cool:

N&W 611 departs Attalla, AL for Chattanooga, TN. It's a beautiful 04/01/1989 morning and she's on her first fantrip of the season. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

I stopped at the same location at sunset five days later and caught a northbound intermodal train. The light wasn't great, but I cranked off a few shots. Note that the two units are the same as in my shots from above! :eek:

As seen yesterday, a 1965 Porsche 356C available for $135,000 USD (£97,500 GBP). Safe to say, it will not reside in my garage. :cool:

Caught a light engine move on the former Southern Railway mainline at Fairforest, SC on Thursday, probably to pick up a train in Greenville. Trailing was another DC-to-AC locomotive in special paint.

Took the car for a spin on this fine spring-like day and soon saw CSX Train F764, a puny local at the Camden, SC Amtrak station. Lighting wasn't the best, so I waited in vain for the train's return trip, but lost patience.

My new car, a 2021 VW GTI SE 6-Speed Manual in Cornflower Blue:

Got trackside today to snag a shot of NS 238 at Columbia, SC. It's a daily stack train that runs from Greenville, SC to the Port of Charleston, SC. It's lead by GE AC44C6M 4003, one of Norfolk Southern's locomotives converted from DC to AC and given a special paint scheme.

A Union Switch & Signal PRR position light dwarf signal displays a stop indication at Hudson, OH. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X, July 1976] Ten years after this shot was taken, I met my wife and on our first trip into former PRR territory, she called these "Gumby" signals because their shape somewhat...

April 1998 at the SAL's crossroads at Hamlet, NC. There was a major hump yard here until Precision Scheduled Railroading took root at CSX and it is now closed. In 2003 the enormous depot was moved across the tracks and spun 90 Deg. to place it in a more accessible spot. Hamlet is also stop for...

Former SAL Alco C-420 1376 works at Knoxville, TN in April 1979. These aging units were flogged daily and yet muscled through. I recall seeing a C-420 throttled up shoving a heavy cut, wheels having lost adhesion and slowly spinning with smoke pouring off the wheel surfaces.

March 1981 at Denville, NJ, a junction on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. The train is on the Boonton line and is about to join the electrified mainline heading west. The Boonton line was a freight bypass. A lot has changed in 40 years and I'm not sure if the Boonton line remains as...

While we're on a Family Lines theme, former L&N caboose 6280 in fresh Family Lines paint awaits assignment in May 1979 at Knoxville, TN.

Car shopping I am .....