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As seen this afternoon in Cayce, SC, Norfolk Southern Train 191 has just departed Columbia and is on its way west to Macon, GA. The NS line in the foreground once ran 130 miles south to a point near Savannah, GA. Only a 20 Mile stub remains today.

EMD SW-7, SW-8 and SW-9. SW-7 PB&NE 51 [former PRR] at Bethlehem, PA 08/1980), SW-8 CR 8682 [former LV] at Allentown, PA 10/1983) and SW-9 (CR 9010 [former Erie] at Bethlehem, PA 07/1982).

L&N GP-38-2s in fall and winter. The 4081 is at Tullahoma, TN in November 1978 and the 4067 is chillin' at Knoxville, TN in February 1979. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

In recognition of crashton's Benny Hill avatar, here's a Conrail westbound working hard at Bennington, PA as it nears the summit at Gallitzin. It's July 1980 and the former four track PRR main is still intact, but it'll soon to be reduced to three.

Two roster shots from 02/14/1976 at the MILW's big yard outside of Chicago in Bensenville, IL.

Trolleys are trains too, right? From 1975, here's Car 26 operating at a Buckingham, PA museum. Sadly, the site fell into decay and this fine car was destroyed by vandalism and fire, then scrapped.:( What remained of the collection was gathered up and sent to Scranton, PA's Electric City...

Another E popped up in my negatives, this an E-9A at Fox Lake, IL in 1975.

Into the Wayback Machine again to March 1975 at Chicago's Union Station. [Nikkormat FTn]

Stepped away from the Wayback Machine this morning and caught local train CSX F765 passing Columbia, SC's Amtrak station. Tropical Storm Zeta is bringing drizzle and the station canopy was a welcome spot.

Knoxville, TN - Alco heaven with these taken in 1976 and 1977. C-420 1376 is former SAL and C-628 7519 is former ACL.

Some scenes at Galesburg, IL in October 1976. Amtrak SDP-40F 587 seen in the first photo was destroyed in a wreck within the next year at its birthplace at LaGrange, IL on 08-27-1977 when its train collided with a freight train that had derailed minutes before.

Some shots taken on a typical hot and muggy New Jersey day in July 1976 at the former PRR station at Newark. [Nikkormat FTn]

Speaking of GM products, it's April 1980 and grimy C&NW F-7 425 is heading a "scoot" towards its next stop at Fox River Grove, IL.

Here's a closer shot of BANK and an enlargement of the car. Maybe it will help. All GM cars looked the same to me back then, so I'm no help at all.

As seen in July 1976, a pair of battered Penn Central E Units take a commuter train out of Red Bank, NJ on the New York & Long Branch. That's the CNJ's BANK Tower at the left in the bottom shot. The tracks to the right lead to the CNJ's lines in south Jersey. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X film]

E Units at ease, Barrington, IL, about 1975.

I think I posted some of these pictures a while back, but I recently re-scanned the negatives. These were taken at Hudson, OH in July 1976 and Alco's presence was strong. Conrail is only four months old, but the paint shops have been busy with their stencils. [Nikkormat FTn]

New Jersey's Black River & Western once operated a vintage Pennsylvania Railroad "doodlebug", built by Brill in 1930. Powered by a 6-Cyl. Hamilton diesel with a 4-Cyl. Waukesha diesel for excitation and battery charging, and two-chime horn, she sounded as fine as she looked. The 4666 survives...

Taken in 1975 at North Western Station in Chicago were these time exposures using Plus-X 125 ASA film. I forget if I brought a tripod along or if I braced the Nikkormat FTn on ironwork. Everything that appears is gone today, even the classic station opened in 1911 which was replaced with a...

Thank you. I'm sure other people could do a lot better. I think the emulsion is suffering some sort of spotty degradation on a portion of my negatives, leaving hundreds of oddly shaped white spots all over the images. Others have a lot of dust spots, regardless of how much I use my rocket...