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Thanks for the tire tip. I made a note of it for when the time comes. I see that yours is a well-rated UV filter. I use a UV filter on my lenses (all two of them) as well. Here's my GTI's October oil change. I added the underhood sound insulator. It's something that VW "decontented" along...

From about 1975 on a chilly day at Barrington, IL, a Chicago & North Western freight advances through the white stuff. One the many dumb things I did as a young photographer was to keep a yellow filter on my 50mm lens. I read in a magazine that it made skies look better, but it was a terrible...

Such a beautiful GTI. (y) Are the amber foglight lenses OE or aftermarket? They look great. I wish my tires looked as good as yours. At 20K Miles, my (original) OE tires are showing wear. I recently had to completely replace one in back that took a nail in the sidewall. Since my GTI has...

Wow, super neat images of interesting stuff here!

That would be me. I've never heard of a Tardis. 😯

From 10/23/1996 at Dalies, NM, an intermodal train moves west. [Nikon 2020, Kodachrome]

Haha! That'd make a righteous name indeed for a hobby shop cat. :D From 1/28/1989 at Howells Interlocking, Atlanta, GA. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

A train shot, well kinda. Here's the hobby shop cat on patrol inside a display case. :D

That's a neat picture. Not knowing much about birds, I looked that up to find that some birds have "goggles", an extra semi-transparent eyelid to protect their eyes. Interesting stuff! Thanks for capturing this. (y)

With Veterans Day celebrated tomorrow in the U.S., 11/11/2023, here's NS's Veterans unit 6920 outbound from Columbia, SC to points north on 01/12/2014. To those who have served and those that serve today, THANK YOU! [D5100]

As found on Friday, "Spongebob Squarecab" Model SD-40-3 rebuild No. 4021, former CSX/L&N No. 8108 on Train L643 at Laurens, SC. CSX's Huntington, WV Shops have rebuilt a bunch of these from 40+ year old locomotives.

From 07/21/1989 during the National Railway Historical Society's National Meet in Asheville, NC, 2-8-2 Nickel Plate 587 works a fantrip through Hot Springs, NC. The car with the maroon stripe trailing the 587 is a "canteen" car of water for the locomotive. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

From 03/11/1995 at Speers Ferry (aka Copper Creek), VA, a CSX coal train moves south with the moon taking in the view. A Norfolk Southern line can be seen below the viaduct. The area has since become treed in, making this view impossible. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

This morning's train 242 awaits track authority before departing Columbia, SC. There's a cell tower out of sight at the right that's in the worst spot and pervades most compositions here. I was glad to be able to just barely crop it out. [D5100, 1/125 @ f/9]

From 11/14/1981 at Weehawken, NJ, the former New York Central TU Tower beneath the Pallisade. It had been closed by this date. Towers were once common structures at junctions and numbered in the thousands in North America, but nearly all have succumbed to technology and most have been...

From an overcast day March 1988 at Montgomery, AL, GP-40-2 4259 takes a rest. The Chessie System was a combination of the Chesapeake & Ohio, Baltimore & Ohio and Western Maryland railroads, with locomotives often sub lettered for one of the component roads, such as the WM we see here. These...

You are using an adapter with the SD card? I'd try an SD card that doesn't need an adapter.

I totally agree. The '80s also predated the ugly graffiti which covers every railcar today. I miss the days when freight cars looked as their owners intended. 06/13/1988, St. Johnsbury, VT. [Nikon 2020, Kodachrome]

From 04/05/1989 at Cresson, PA, a Conrail freight crosses over at historic MO Tower. With legacies dating from the age of telegraphy, tower locations were often identified with a handful of letters identifying their locations. MO was named for it being on the MOuntain. Sadly, MO was...

The Operation Lifesaver unit was obscured by clutter and overgrowth on the sunny side.