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Throttling up today through Lugoff, SC is CSX Train 464 headed to Hamlet, NC.

Marilynne, I found the perfect boat for you today to purchase and expand the oceanic reach of your photography. It'll require a little fixing up sure, but a little putty and Bondo and she'll be ready for adventure. Actually, I think it's the Gilligan and Skippers' Minnow finally found ...

I don't know much about commercial movie making, but my wife and I are fans of HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire', an intriguing miniseries set in 1920's America during the Prohibition era. The photography is extraordinary and it's matched with wonderful sets. I was surprised to read that the entire...

Norfolk Southern makes an appearance just before the drizzle turns to rain in Crosswell, SC.

Looking like a painting from the school of Pointillism comes this grab of one frame of a family 8mm movie from 1959. I messed with the image in an attempt to make it clear and it morphed into what you see quite by accident. I somehow like it. It might be a PanAm DC-6,but I'm not at all sure.

On the same trip we also found the very remote Q Tower in Hardman, WV. The Operator (employee) at the tower was marking his last years before retirement and invited us up for a tour. This (like HO Tower) was an "armstrong" plant, where switches and signals were all connected to the tower by...

It's October 1994 and we're at Hancock, WV looking at HO Tower. This (former B&O) line was one of the very last holdouts for manned towers in the U.S.. HO Tower no longer stands, hazing been razed in about 2004 I think.

I have 15 Ea * 7 Inch Reels of our family's movies on Super 8 film that I want to convert to DVD. I also have a nice c. 1965 Bell & Howell projector which works great. I do not want to have the conversion done commercially because (a) I'm cheap and (b) I cannot risk losing the films. Using a...

How about a circa 1980 Pettibone log loader? I sometimes have to dispose of machinery in my work. I had this one cut up for scrap with the knowledge that it was an obsolete heap, flat tire and all. It went to the big steel recycler in the sky last month.

First sign of spring around our home. I'm not sure what these are; maybe daffodils? I don't know anything about plants, but I like their color. The flowering plant is only 6" tall.

Thank you. I posted one of red berries on a holly bush in the snow elsewhere, but didn't post this letterbox-size image.

Here's a diminutive depot from Lionel, produced over 80 years ago.

Former Seaboard depot in Maxton, NC (April 2011)

Wow -- that's an amazing contemporary structure Vincent! At the other end of the scale we have the modest former Milwaukee Road depot at Spaulding, IL as taken in 1976. The structure burned shortly after I took this photo. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus X Print Film].

I found an awesome web location with thousands of heretofore unseen vintage railroad photographs. Many are very rare. I happened upon a photo taken at Alleghany, VA (that's how they spell it, not Allegheny) at the (then) Chesapeake & Ohio's 'A Cabin'. The vintage photo was probably taken in...

It's Girl Scout Cookie time! Here's the 2014 arrival in my truck, all destined for hungry customers. MMmmmmm ....

The wife bundled up in infinite layers of insulation. Yep, she shoots with a Nikon too.

A snowy manhole cover cast on the planet Vulcan .....

Birds had to move further south. I just noticed that I used a 35mm film canister years ago to hang the birdhouse!

This morning in the Carolina midlands. No snowshovels in these parts!