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That's a super fine shot Bill! (y) That's a li'l 0-4-0T "saddletanker" (so named because its water supply is carried over its boiler like a saddle) that carries its own fuel and water without need for a tender behind it.

Got a derailment? Who ya gonna call? Bucyrus! One of the oldest names in cranes, power shovels and mining equipment, Bucyrus was founded in 1880 and was bought by Caterpillar in 2010. They were a well-known name in railroading. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X, 1976]

From my black and white days in 1975 at Fox Lake IL, a model E-9 locomotive in commuter train service on the Milwaukee Road, built in 1961. She was later saved at a museum in Green Bay WI, but the locomotive was in terrible shape by then and after being stored outside for some years, it was...

Hungary maybe? :unsure:

June 1997, losing light at Williams, AZ [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

Santa Fe Railway water tank and moon at Hackberry, Arizona in March 1997. This tank survives from the steam locomotive era. Water quality from desert wells was high in mineral content, so contributed to greater expense in water treatment and locomotive maintenance. Diesel locomotives had no...

From about 1976, a Chicago & North Western freight at Barrington, IL trails a caboose en route to Proviso Yard near Chicago. The C&NW called cabooses "waycars" and painted them yellow. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus X film]

From March 1994 at Columbia SC, Norfolk Southern Operation Lifesaver Model GP-59 4631. Operation Lifesaver is a promotional effort by U.S. and Canadian railroads to increase driver awareness of safety at railroad grade crossings. Specially painted locomotives like this one circulate on trains...

Interlocking machine bed and levers at the CNJ's long abandoned tower structure at Whitehouse, NJ in 12/1980. It has since been demolished. The levers were connected to signals and track switches and it took some muscle to move them. They're called interlocking machines because they were...

July 1976 at the former Reading station at Hopewell, NJ

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...