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This time exposure was made about 1975 with my Nikkormat FTn and Plus-X film. I closed the aperture to f/16, locked the shutter open and walked around popping off a handheld flash.

Yes, the clean cars are few and far between. Railcar manufacturers have recently begun to place car reporting marks (railroad and car number) high up on the carsides so that paint wielding knotheads don't spray paint over them. These markings are essential to railroad operations.

It was 12 Feet Wide and 10 Feet Deep, so was quite the feat when it was completed. There's a hiking trail along its length and you can easily see the route, but as you saw, nature has filled much of it in.

South Carolina's upstate Landsford Canal opened in 1823, engineered to carry boats two miles around rocky shoals in the Catawba River. It had five locks in its length. Here's the first, the Guardlock. It was engineered to protect the canal when river water levels became high, but was...

This picture hardly compares with the beautiful photography in this thread, but I wasn't sure where else to post it. My wife and I visited South Carolina's Landsford Canal State Park on Friday to see the Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies in the Catawba River, which bloom annually for only a month...

From 06/07/1976 at Allentown, PA. Most all of the railroad names you see are gone today, merged into today's enormous North American major railroads. There's no graffiti in sight either, a blight seen everywhere in our modern era. This yard still exists, operated by Norfolk Southern...

Big wheels keep on rolling. Jarrett's Tunnel, west of Old Fort, NC. [D5100, 12/26/2014]

Evening comes to Encino NM, June 1997. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Taken at the same time as the above shot, EJ&E's 668 in all her freshly painted glory. Carbody was white, top stripe was red and the bottom stripe blue.

From February 1976 when America's railroads were adding specially painted Bicentennial locomotives to their rosters. The Elgin, Joliet & Eastern operated a belt line railroad around the city of Chicago, IL and created the 668. As a teenager I couldn't afford color film, so had to settle for...

Your owl photos are family favorites. Last night I carried the laptop to the kitchen to share them with everyone. The light, colors, textures, facial expressions and compositions are all so absolutely beautiful.

An old hotel my wife and I stayed at in South Carolina's lowcountry. [D5100]

Infrastructure, Pennsylvania Railroad style at 11 kV 25 Hz. Princeton Junction NJ, July 1976. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

In case we didn't know, it's a CORVETTE. 😑 (My wife thought this was so ridiculous that she took a picture.)

Not sure where to post this kitchen goodness still life, so I'll place it here. [D5100]

Seeing @Clovishound's excellent seascape, I thought I'd post these of the Botany Bay "boneyard beach" on Edisto Island in South Carolina. I took these yesterday with my D5100.

You have a good eye for detail. These are called "articulated" cars and they don't separate the cars joined by a single "truck" (that's railroad-ese for a set of wheels). These cars usually have 3, 4 or 5 wells for double-stacked containers with each end having a normal truck and coupler...

1960 Austin Healy "Bugeye" Sprite. [D5100]

Wow, that's a fine shot @Blue439, composition, color, DOF, everything about it. Thanks for posting!

Thank you. Southern Railway crews must have had some extra confidence at grade crossings. Found hammerhead B30-7 3505 in SOU paint running long hood forward at Leeds, AL in 1990. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]