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From today, Train 15R at Simpson, SC. [D5100]

May 1981 climbing the Alleghenies at Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, PA. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

Probably so, then there are CN and CP with their extensive U.S. holdings that they'll want to protect. It took 2-1/2 years of expensive litigation for CR's situation to be settled and I'm guessing this final round of transcontinental mergers will take at least that long. It boggles the mind to...

Marion, OH is a fine spot too. AC Tower has since been taken down off it stilts, but it remains on site for railfans to see. Of course, CR is long gone. :( [September 1997, Nikon N2020, Kodchrome]

I was last there in September 1997. It remains a busy area; the rail park should be great. F Tower was still manned when I was there. From what I read, it still stands, but was closed in March 2015. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

The Loree Breaker stood at Larksville, PA and the Moffat at Taylor, PA. The Moffat was unusual in that it was built of reinforced concrete. [June and September 1982] [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

In 2014, the Huber Colliery at Ashley, PA was one of the last to fall after an attempt to preserve it fell through. [October 1981] [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

In the latter 1800s into the 1940s, anthracite coal mining was the most important industry in northeastern Pennsylvania. It was the predominant residential heating fuel and also found wide use in industry until it was unseated by fuel oil and natural gas. Although abandoned, dozens of large...

Working the hump at Southern Railway's John Sevier Yard at Knoxville, TN. [01/1980, Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

So very sad and an ongoing trend in the pulp and paper industry that I spent my career in.

Yep, I ordered two replacements from Amazon for my D5100. They're not Nikon brand, but they are of good quality.

Very nice, and in period black and white. Looks like an Alco S-2, maybe at a tourist railroad or an industry? These were produced in the 1940s and maybe into the early 1950s, so are quite a neat find. Where did you see this?

Track maintenance machines like the one you found often look like Rube Goldberg creations, don't they? 😊

Taken 37 years ago today in 1988 at Georgiana AL, a caboose brings up the rear on a coal train. Cabooses were beginning to disappear at the time and today, even coal trains are an increasingly rare sight. A branchline to Anddalusia, AL and beyond departs the mainline at left. [Nikon N2020...

Studebaker steering wheel. [D5100, 11/2012]

Union Pacific locomotives lead a Norfolk Southern train at Blythewood, SC in June 2022. With the nearest Union Pacific tracks over 600 miles away, this was a fun sight, including even a red Canadian Pacific locomotive third back. North American railroads often lend locomotives to assist...

Taken exactly 48 years ago today on 06/16/1977 at Knoxville, Tennessee, Southern Railway Model NW-2 #1064. She was built in 1948 and worked for the Southern until 1980 when it was sold to a shipbuilder in Louisiana. I suspect that the 1064 met the scrapper's torch decades ago. [Nikkormat FTn...

From today, a short CSX "local" train at Columbia, SC. Lead locomotive 6569 was built in 1980, but was recently completely rebuilt at CSX's Huntington, WV Shops to modern standards. Locomotives are expensive, so railroads do all they can to recycle and reuse. [D5100]

1959 Cadillac Coupe de Ville Tail Fin [D5100]

On the other end of the steam locomotive scale is Norfolk & Western 1218, a 2-6-6-4. [April 1988, Attalla, Alabama, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]