Post your Train shots!

[Sandpatch]

… It was an Amtrak stop. The station is on the right. It was restored many years ago. Not sure what happened, but a new station was built about a mile down the track. The city uses this station as a storage area now.

Such a shame! I love the look of the old Florida stations with their Spanish mission appearance and colorful stucco.

I have a handful of Florida slides, such as one taken in Wildwood and the other in Ocala, both in

March of 1987. I'm finding that with my new scanner, you can't turn a dark slide into something wonderful any more than ya can make something wonderful out of a dark DSLR photograph. Everything gets kind of muddy and with overediting, it looks much worse.

It's interesting that these look a tiny bit pixelated here, but look better when clicked on to expand them. They look good on my laptop screen. I usually upload files of 500 to 600KB here and these are in that range too.
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[Sandpatch]

I think I'm starting to get the hang of scanning. I want to be sure I explore every aspect before I dive in to scan my collection. I was talking to a guy at a model railroad club and he said he scanned hundreds of his slides then discovered he had the scanning resolution set too low and had to start all over again. Oh, by the way every slide here was shot with a Nikon, most likely my EL-2.

Taken July 1980, Conrail SD-45 helpers ("snappers" in PRR parlance) at work on the eastern slope of the Alleghenies west of Altoona. Friends and I camped out for a weekend nearby. This was when the PRR's four-track mainline was still intact. In a questionable call, CR pulled up one track several years later.

 

[Sandpatch]

Looking east from the former Lehigh Valley Railroad tunnel at Pattenburg, NJ.

 

[Andy W]

 

[Sandpatch]

From August 1980 at Suffern, NY a former E-L SDP-45 is in charge on the Erie mainline. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

From December 1980, levers within an abandoned interlocking tower (or a "signal box" to our British friends) at Whitehouse, NJ. This was located on the former Central of New Jersey main line.

 

[hark]

From December 1980, levers within an abandoned interlocking tower (or a "signal box" to our British friends) at Whitehouse, NJ. This was located on the former Central of New Jersey main line.

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Whitehouse, NJ - isn't that up near the Clinton Mill?

Did they allow you access to take the photos, and if so, do they still allow it? Would be fun to have access.

 

[Sandpatch]

Whitehouse, NJ - isn't that up near the Clinton Mill? Did they allow you access to take the photos, and if so, do they still allow it? Would be fun to have access.

Yes, they're very close. Clinton, NJ is only about 10 miles west of Whitehouse. The area was so rural when I lived in NJ that it was easy to walk around the tower and go inside without anyone caring. I looked at some Internet map sites and I don't see the tower where I remember it, so I suspect it's gone.

I was also able to get upstairs at the former Boston & Maine tower in Johnsonville, NY in July of 1983. I'm uncertain if it still stands, but I'm guessing not.

 

[Sandpatch]

The former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western tower in Dover, NJ was open when I visited in September of '82. It's now a residence! If it ever comes up for sale, I'm moving in.

 

[Sandpatch]

Some abandoned towers get no respect. These are both former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western towers that once served a high speed cut-off across western NJ as built just over a century ago. It was at the time one of the most highly engineered lines in America. It's gone today. The DL&W loved the durability and fireproof nature of concrete and built nearly everything out of it.

 

[Sandpatch]

McPherson Square Station on the Washington, DC Metro, September 1989. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2]

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[crashton]

I'm really enjoying your pictures from the wayback machine. Thanks Sandpatch! :encouragement:

 

[Sandpatch]

From July 1985, two EMD AEM-7 racehorses await their next assignment north at Washington, DC Union Station.

 

[Sandpatch]

The paint scheme that CSX should have adopted -- the Chessie System's. [Kodachrome, Nikon EL-2, January 1989, Atlanta, GA]

 

[crashton]

Nice catch Sandpatch.:encouragement: I liked that paint scheme too. Sure glad they didn't stick with that scheme used on the second unit.

 

[Sandpatch]

Agreed crashton. Only the boys in Cost Accounting could have created such a thing. In all its dynamic glory, here's the "Stealth" scheme underway at Shenendoah Jct., WV in April 1996.

 

[Sandpatch]

Then there was this improved variant, still not easily seen at highway grade crossings. Brunswick, MD -

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[crashton]

Nice shot Sandpatch. Leaning into the curve with a GP30 road slug on the head end, excellent.:encouragement:Maybe you could photoshop a nicer paint job on those Geep's. layful:

 

[Sandpatch]

August 1983, an eastbound at Harpers Ferry, WV on the former B&O main. I recall barely having time to set up for this shot.

 

[Needa]

August 1983, an eastbound at Harpers Ferry, WV on the former B&O main. I recall barely having time to set up for this shot.

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Looks like your getting that scanning thing down to a science.