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From about 1976, a Chicago-bound "scoot" approaches the crossing of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Rwy. at Barrington, IL. That's Barrington Tower to the right. The tracks remain today, as does the commuter service, but the locomotive, passenger cars and tower are long gone from the scene...

I like that the add lists features such as a heater, sun visors, safety glass and turn signals. Wow, it's loaded! Reminds me of Chicago TV ads for Bert Weinman Ford featuring Linn Burton when I was a kid. Check out that suit. ;)

This afternoon's NS 15R at Ridgeway, SC with Uncle Pete (Union Pacific) in charge. I lost my sunlight just before train time. This is a difficult location to shoot because this train usually runs later in the day and the sun is then positioned in a horrible spot. 15R ran early today, so all was...

This afternoon's train 18D arriving with a horn blast and an alarmed bird in flight exiting stage right. :eek:

When I move in close to the damage above the windows, it looks like Bondo or maybe Paint Over Rust paint. I wonder if stone chips and the like have allowed rainwater to seep in and rust away the metal beneath. The window frames are a mess on many of these units as well. Lots of black caulk...

The northbound Silver Star running 6-1/2 hours late in this morning's overcast at Pontiac, SC. Lead GE P42DC #14 is 26 years old and looking pretty ratty.

Kodachrome was great stuff of course and enjoys a well-earned reputation for retaining an almost eternal image quality. Kodachrome required a complex processing and unfortunately I learned too late that Fotomat was NOT the place for processing. As a poor college student and penniless new...

Men at work, 10/26/1990 at Linden, IN [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

This afternoon's 15R (Linwood, NC => Columbia, SC) at Blythewood, SC. The influx of UP power continues, with an SD-70AH lending a hand. After several tries, I finally got a sunlit picture here.

I'm grateful to a friend from long ago who got me interested in photographing freight cars. The pox of graffiti was unknown, 40 FT cars could be found and roadnames long since lost were to be seen in many places. I wish I'd have taken more day trips and weekend trips to hunt trains when I was...

I just learned that the B&O depot at Deshler, OH was demolished 08/11/2022. It was in poor repair from what I read. The interlocking tower (DR Tower) there still stands, long out of service. DR once housed a Dispatcher and CTC machine, featured in the January 1953 Trains Magazine. Both of...

Nice series of photos and thumbnail Shay history Bluzman. :encouragement: Note how the boiler is offset to one side to provide room for the reciprocating parts on the other side, plus help to balance the weight. I've seen only one Shay, at the North Carolina Transportation Museum as seen here...

Argh. I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so will start again from scratch. Again, Train 18D, a solid train of auto racks loaded with new BMWs headed for export from the Port of Charleston, SC. BMW's plant is immense -- this is a daily train. :eek: We've had some really neat clouds in the...

Freight trains do move on schedules, but they're generally not firm like passenger train schedules and are not available to the public. I carry a railroad radio scanner to help out, but the transmissions can sometimes be confusing depending on train density, familiarity with the area and train...

This morning's CSX L647 rolling south at Camden, SC. A somewhat backlit shot, but it was best to be out before the summer heat cranked up. Typical eastern railroad scene with overgrown vegetation encroaching everywhere. I often stomp down tall weeds, but I'd need power equipment to take down...

Today's picture is of a Jersey Central caboose that's 160 times smaller than the real thing, i.e. N Scale. The caboose is 2-3/8" long. I had some fun with this picture, taking it with my late father's Nikkor f/3.5 55mm Macro (circa 1970) coupled to my D5100. It's such a sweet lens and is as...

The summer heat and humidity have kept the D5100 shelved, but my train addiction finally won and I sweated out a wait for Norfolk Southern grain train 50V this afternoon.

Braved the heat and humidity this morning to grab a quick shot of Train L624 readying to depart Columbia, SC. The train is a "turn", working industries along a line, then returning home on the same route in the evening.

Helping to keep our air conditioners running, coal train 786 from today with a helper adding some muscle on the rear.

Today's trains 12R and 15R with faded UP leader and trailing BNSF unit.