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My Nikon 55-200 DX VR Lens is exhibiting a rattle and some odd symptoms. I've had this lens for six years and these just began. Fortunately the images remain fine, but I'm wondering if something is broken inside. If I tilt the lens end over end, I hear a component rattling inside which is...

I also found the nicely restored SOU depot at Prosperity, SC and hit paydirt at Fairforest, SC with an NS southbound.

Caught some CSX action in upstate South Carolina on Friday. The train in the top photo appeared unexpectedly and I had little time to set up. Lighting on the bridge photo is never good because the sun is in a bad spot the entire day. Would be good to revisit on in overcast light, but this...

In Laurens, SC:

Railroad interlocking tower, Ramsey, IL. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

I've owned my D5100 for exactly six years and have shot almost 10,000 Frames with it. It was bought new and remains my first, and only digital camera. :) (I suspect that many of y'all shoot 10,000 Frames/Year!) Although it's long obsolete, I still treasure it and the pictures I capture...

At the VW car show last weekend we spoke with a MK6 GTI owner that once had his car wrapped in a modified Messerschmitt Bf 109 scheme, but he found himself receiving insults at traffic lights. People saw the iron cross and associated it with Nazism. Saddened and frustrated by the response, he...

Seen on an old VW microbus and photographed by my wife ..... :D

Another look at Blue Ridge Southern's road power, tied up at Canton, NC:

With yesterday's daylight fading, NS Train 172 (New Orleans => Linwood, NC) advances north past the depot at Spartanburg, SC.

Bug hood, er trunk with Wolfsburg logo:

The VW meet was sponsored by the VW Air Cooled Association, so brought out a lot of Bugs like these. I liked a window sticker I saw on one that read Air Cooled Hooligans. :D (My wife couldn't resist buying a Fahrvergnügen sticker for our new Golf Wolfsburg!)

... and a vintage VW van and GTI:

Vintage VW Speedometer ....

Taken this afternoon in Canton, NC, Blue Ridge Southern arrives home with the daily turn to Asheville.

Amtrak's northbound Silver Star is running 11 Hours late today. I'm not sure what caused the delay, but seeing the train in daylight is a treat. Here it is racing through the drizzle at Lugoff, SC. Those shovel-nosed GE P42DC's lack visual appeal in any light. :p

Old house with a very tired window:

A pair of Palmettos ....

CSX is back in action following the derailment. Caught this heavy ballast (crushed stone) train at dusk moving toward the site. I'd hoped to catch a vivid red signal in this shot, but the confounded "approach lit" signals stay dark until the very last second as the train passes by. :( We...

A CSX local freight derailed at 1AM nearby, so I checked it out late this morning. A dozen cars derailed, but thankfully there were no injuries. Law enforcement was everywhere, so I had to settle for a cropped 200mm telephoto shot from a highway bridge. The derailment also blocked Amtrak's...