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From yesterday in the overcast at Kings Mountain, NC. [D5100]

I downloaded Nikon's NX Studio yesterday and all went well with the installation, but I can't figure out how to process jpgs. The various editing screens are grayed out and show only RAW. How do I access the editing features for jpgs? I tried watching some YouTube videos, but can't find one...

At 108 years old and still operating, that's a rare and beautiful locomotive. Thanks for posting these -- a fine sight. (y)

What is this guy? I love the shot.

I lived in Butler, NJ about 30 miles north of Newark. The picture was taken at Sand Patch, PA, just over the MD state line northwest of Cumberland, MD. It's where the B&O RR (CSX today) crested the Alleghenies and it's where my Nikonites moniker came from. These same friends and I took a lot...

This is one of my favorites, taken Thanksgiving weekend in 1981 west of Cumberland, MD with a Nikon EL-2 on Kodachrome. I was living in NJ at the time and someone got the idea to pile a bunch of us into a friend's '64 Dodge Dart and drive 300 miles south to see trains. So there we went...

Agreed. I have a cheap one that often frustrates me. Even screwing the foot into the camera base is difficult. The manufacturer chose a teeny tiny thumbscrew that evades adult-sized fingers. Plus, the whole thing is wobbly. I find myself steadying it with my hands as a train approaches. A...

Sorry to read of this @crashton. I pray that your burdens are made less and that your life can get back on course. 🙏

Refueling Amtrak's Gulf Breeze at Greenville, AL. [11/04/1990, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Hoppers in tow behind 8,800 HP at Union Point, GA, ten years ago in August 2015. [D5100]

Black River & Western's 2-8-0 No. 60 at Ringoes, NJ in July 1985, built 1937. She's currently out of service for an inspection, but will return. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Simpson, SC, 07/30/2025 with my aged D5100. I was running an errand far from home and saw railroad signal indications that a train was coming, so went to this spot to set up. I'd wanted to get this shot for a long time, but the location is very close beside a highway and isn't a safe place to...

This is one of my very first train pictures, from 51 years ago in August 1974 in suburban Chicago. It was shot with my mother's Kodak Instamatic 126, plastic lens, square viewfinder and all. A year later, I was given my Dad's old 35mm Kodak Retina Reflex (as my older brother had also used)...

In April of 1988 I came across this ancient C&O car shop at Thurmond, WV along the New River. Nobody was around, so I cautiously entered and greatly enjoyed an unhurried walk about the place, soaking up the ambiance and imagining what it was once like. Check out the water column at left. All...

How neat to have seen that. You're right, turntables and roundhouses are rare and to find one in its native state is something special. I so miss that sense of open discovery and uninhibited exploration that was commonly found decades ago. Railfanning is just not as much fun today. These...

I miss 'em too and the friendly waves we used to get. Heck, even pulpwood racks as seen ahead of the SOU hack here are gone. These were once a staple of southeastern railroading. [October 1985, Montgomery, AL, Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

Closing out the day at Childersburg, AL in October 1988. The caboose era is in sunset too. Train is on the former Central of Georgia crossing over the Southern.. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

At work in Cresson, PA. [10/1994, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

The Cresson, PA engine terminal in April 1989. With pusher locomotives on station and two coal-heavy branchlines, it was a busy spot.

You came away with some really nice shots @Browncoat , even capturing CSX's WM Emblem unit in the first photo. (y) Yeah, ya never know who you're going to meet when you arrive at a spot. Some people and kind and well informed, and others are, um, less so.