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CSX piledriver at Prattville, AL in March 1989. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

Yes, the spring is in place and all seems like it should be well. I like the dental floss idea -- a good tip! Here's my D5100 and its flash housing hook, as captured using my wife's cell phone camera. I stupidly closed it up after she took the photo and when I used the button to reopen it, it...

The built-in flash on my D5100 no longer pops up when I press the little button with the lightning bolt on it adjacent to the flash. It won't work in any of the P, A, S or M modes like it should. When I press the button, there's no sound or indication that it wants to pop up, so it doesn't...

After a draught of Heritage Units, the (original) Norfolk Southern arrived today in the company of the N&W. I'd seen the N&W a number of times, but never the NS.

Stepping out of the wayback machine today for a picture taken late this afternoon at Columbia, SC of NS's Illinois Terminal heritage unit 1072. The light was just right. I hadn't seen this one, so I'm happy to have caught up with it. :)

Departing Montgomery, AL the old fashioned way aboard a caboose in October 1985. That's Montgomery's trainshed and Union Station in the background.

In January 1979, a former Clinchfield caboose was found in Knoxville, TN.

Okay, who ordered all these cabooses? :D May 1985, Montgomery, AL. The three boxy cabooses look like former Atlantic Coast Line hacks and the red bay window remains in unadulterated L&N red.

In July of '82 I stopped at Hagerstown, MD and was wide-eyed upon seeing vintage BL-2 7171 still in service at the Western Maryland yard. The WM owned only two, both delivered in 1948! [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

Perhaps a VW Scirocco from the early '80s, 5 Speed stick of course. :cool: I wanted one so badly when I graduated from college, but the price was beyond my reach. An alternate choice would be an early '80s Toyota Supra, another car I loved at the time and couldn't afford.:rolleyes: I still...

Found a few more N&Ws, the first of the 4127 at Bristol, VA in April of '88 and the second of the 620 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum at Spencer, NC in August of '91. I don't think the 620 was ever painted in the N&W's maroon passenger color when in service, but the Museum thought...

On the way to my parent's home for Thanksgiving in 1989, I stopped at Toccoa, GA and found a nice N&W SD-40-2 in the sunlight. :)

Thank you Chuck. It seems the more slides I scan, the more I find. :eek: Perhaps by the end of July, I'll be done with the last of my roster and equipment shots. In addition, I just found a corrugated box full of yellow Kodak slide boxes in the closet, but I think these are "seconds" that I...

Another Alco, C-420 1369 in service on the L&N in Knoxville, TN. She's former SAL 129. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2, October 1979]

Delaware & Hudson (former E-L) Alco C-424 451 at Hudson, PA in October 1981.

I was looking through my roster shots and discovered that the Family Lines once fielded an unheralded Bar Code Unit. [September 1984, Kodachrome, Nikon N2020] :D

Sometimes ya gotta take what you get and be happy with it. Case in point is this March 1997 shot at Topock, AZ where the Santa Fe mainline crosses the Colorado River into CA. After a long wait, we heard motors to the west and anticipated a nice shot of the mighty Santa Fe in action. Instead...

There are several Norfolk Southern locomotives I'd like to get a picture of and one is their 1111, aka "The Barcode Unit". :) I thought I might get it this morning, but this was all I could manage. Maybe next time …..

Further west is Kingman, AZ (You see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, Don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernandino .....) where we find a westbound passing the station. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020, March 1997]

Winona, AZ is known as Darling on the Santa Fe and it's a great location for photography. To the right is Humphrey's Peak at 12,633 FT. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020, March 1997]