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Caught NS today departing Columbia, SC with a local freight, my first train picture of 2019. It's backlit, but it was good to be outside taking pictures. The lead unit is a survivor, built in 1980 and rebuilt in 2005. I thought it was worth getting a roster shot of this veteran in better...

Earlier in the day I'd encountered the SOU unit in the Asheville engine terminal. It's an impossible location for pictures. So near, and yet so far. :( Finding it in the Loops later in the day was a pleasant surprise.

Two tunnels that would make good compositions next time, west portals at Ridgecrest and High Ridge. That's abandoned US-70 above the portal of High Ridge tunnel in the lower photo. It's been made into a great hiking and cycling trail.

Went out yesterday to see what I could find on NS's "Loops" east of Asheville, unaware that a mudslide had shut down the railroad for the day. I packed it in late in the afternoon and drove to the bottom of the grade at Old Fort to look around and found evidence of trouble. I saw a damaged...

My mother was closer to the tracks and fired off this shot moments later as my wife and I crowded the dutch door. I'd outfitted us with safety glasses and handkerchiefs to escape the cinders. Our hair was like concrete at day's end. ;) (PS -- 25 years later we no longer look this young.)

Yesterday I found this old snapshot from the early 1990s as taken by my Dad in western North Carolina. That's Norfolk & Western 611 having just climbed Saluda Mountain and is headed for Asheville. My wife and I are aboard the train. This section of track is essentially out of service today...

I don't often treat myself to things, but I did so this week to get a pair of N Scale Jersey Central SD-35s before they're gone. I hope to begin construction of my new model railroad this winter.

One of the model trains recently given to me by my friend is this little N Scale jewel that's nearly 50 years old, an Arnold Rapido 0-6-0. When I was a kid, I had one just like it and as kids do, I hopelessly ruined it trying to paint it. It's not a valuable locomotive, but it won a place in...

CSX has recently changed up its local schedules and I now have a daylight train to watch in both directions! ;) I was so excited that I went out in the overcast to catch the train. I didn't care how the picture looked -- I was stoked to be trackside with any kind of light. It's just a short...

A generous friend sent me his N Scale to enjoy and that spurred me on to take a hard look at my "collection". I need to make some space, so am deciding what I want to keep and what I rarely run and need to sell or donate. It's been fun looking through everything and seeing how much N Scale has...

No shots of the prototype today, but a quick lousy-depth-of-field snapshot of a model instead. I was sorting through my N Scale and came across this old FEC boxcar, bought when I was a kid in about 1969 I figure. As kids do, for some reason I painted two spots on the door red. :confused: This...

Quiet afternoon in Asheville ….

A beautifully restored '46 Chevy pickup and a Mercury Montclair were also found.

Saw this li'l Nash Metropolitan at a show today and it's tiny 4-Cylinder motor. 0 to 60 time is about 30 Seconds it was said. :cool:

Taken yesterday, a Carolina Piedmont turn sets out from Laurens, SC and NS stacker No. 213 with some old skool piggybacks on the head end approaches Spartanburg, SC.

Taken from the kitchen window in western North Carolina. Not a good time to step outside ….. :eek:

Thanks Chuck. I hope your load lightens soon and that you're able to find some trains and cooler weather. I also found that RU Tower (to be correct, I should call it RU Cabin in C&O parlance) still stands in Russell, KY along with the depot. Neat stuff. And in Catlettsburg, KY stands BS...

A coaling tower still stands along the former L&N main in Chaska, TN and an L&N interlocking tower does likewise in Baxter, KY. A deluge arrived seconds after I clicked the tower shot.

Caught CSX No.1 leading a coal train in Catlettsburg, KY on Saturday. All just dumb luck, being trackside at the right place and time. No sun, but that's okay.