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Here is something different from my usual but something I was asked to do. Here is an old rusted automobile in a Guilford, Maine junkyard. (image 34a8259) Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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The original of this image of an old car in a junkyard was posted earlier. This one has been redone to have a more painterly look. (image 34a8259 Studio2) Please also visit: acadiamagic.com.
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Having left NS's Oakwood Yard a few miles back, CN's daily interchange with NS rolls south down the Dearborn Sub and across Conrail's Lincoln Secondary at Penford, named for the original owners of these two lines (Pennsylvania Railroad and Henry Ford, of the DT&I).
The concrete arches that line much of the Dearborn Sub once held the catenary of the DT&I's short-lived electrification, put up by Henry Ford in the 1920's.
L57261 17 (Local- CN Flat Rock Yard to NS Oakwood Yard, and return)
CN EF-644x / ES44AC #3830
CN EF-644x / ES44AC #3812
Taylor, MI
September 17th, 2023
After a rather lengthy crew change in Decatur, 256 restarts its journey towards Detroit, MI with a string of roadrailers with auto parts.
Here is an old rusted vehicle beneath a canopy of autumn leaves in a Guilford, Maine auto graveyard / museum. (image 34a8487) Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
NOTE: All images are Copyrighted by Greg A. Hartford. No rights to use are given or implied to the viewer. All rights of ownership and use remain with the copyright owner.
Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle
And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles
So you know, that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill...
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Big M Automotive
271 7th St.
Williams, CA.
NS AC44C6M 4563, rebuilt by Wabtec in March 2022 and built as NS C40-9W 9296 in March 1999, takes the lead of westbound autoparts train NS 181 as it rounds the curve at Milepost 257 in Missouri City on a sunny September afternoon.
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NS Kansas City District
Missouri City, Missouri, USA
September 12, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
With the sun setting and a five hour drive still in front of us, we shot him one more time passing the searchlights and fields of henbit near Holliday before we headed home.
Damn good weekend.
BNSF ES44AC 6041 leads the NS 255 RoadRailer westbound on the NS Springfield District near Holliday, Missouri, April 7, 2024.
B&O 491069 was one of over 400 cars assembled by the B&O at Dubois from Thrall kits in 1965 and 1966. They were built in two number series in four different projects, underscoring the B&O's investment in the growing autoparts business during the middle 1960s. Built as class M81, they became B86 class cars under the unified car class scheme when the Chessie came into being. Notice these cars were originally built with roofwalks. While many railroads bought cars from PS and ACF that had fishbelly sills, the B&O 60' boxcar fleet had mostly examples with full length side sills, resulting in a long, low appearance. This car was photographed by Richard Louderback at Camden NJ on 11-29-1986. JL Sessa collection.
can u tell Arizonians weren't prepared for the downpours of yesterday & today?
you can alway tell the first real storm of the season....
cause all the "heat-rotted" wipers get replaced....
yes...i was there to buy new blades as well ......=)
& for the record? I LUV LUV LUV the rain ......bring it on!
Here is another old rusted automobile in a Guilford, Maine junkyard / museum. This is a Nash. Not sure what year it is. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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WP X921E with all its worked completed and ready to leave the yard at the Ford plant located at Milpitas, CA on September 22, 1975. The two people in the photo are my best friend Jim Garrison with the camera and most likely the WP head end brakeman on the train.
The reason why the train is just sitting there after doing their work is the following. My best friend Jim Garrison, who had never see the WP, and I, who seen it twice, decided to take a three day trip to see the WP. We drove all night up the coast to the Bay Area where we photographed the WP in San Jose, the SP in Bayshore and San Francisco, the State Belt railway in San Francisco, the WP in San Francisco and Oakland and then we decided to follow the WP through Niles Canyon and over Altamont pass to Stockton. Please note that back in 1975 there was no place to get information about went certain types of trains ran from one place to another. As we were driving through Niles Canyon we saw a westbound WP with F-units so we turned around and gave chase. At this point we didn't know where the train was going, to Oakland or San Jose or some place in between. So first we drove to the WP Oakland yard and found out the trains wasn't coming to Oakland. Then we headed to San Jose where the yard office still open and the WP operator told us the train was at Milpitas yard next to the Ford plant and that the train was almost ready to leave. The operator knowing how railfans like the F-units and that we really wanted to photographed these units called the train and said there two guys in his office who wanted to photograph their train and could they wait for us. The crew said yes they could wait for us and we got back in the car drove as fast we could stopping only for a pit stop to the Milpitas yard, which luckily was easy to find, found the train waiting for us. We took our photos as the sun set and then thanked to crew for waiting for us. And then the train left for Stockton and we left to find a room for the night north of Richmond, CA.
On the evening of May 27, 1982 Milwaukee Road train #220 is moving at a good clip as it passes Milepost 66 just east of Kirkland, IL. The train was the Union Pacific connection in Kansas City as evidenced by the pair of SD40-2s here: MILW 147 leading UP 3439. These trains were short and sweet--limited to 60 cars with intermodal and hot autoparts traffic from the Grand Trunk in Chicago. Summer evenings were usually spent around here waiting for this train to show up--it was usually through right about 8 p.m.
Eastbound NS local L4R, usually a noctunal train, passes CP Mardenis east of Huntington, IN. This train originated in Marion, IN with a destination of the GM truck assembly plant located near Roanoke, IN with loads of body panels.
Lamarck a dit que la fonction crée l’organe... Cela s’applique dans le domaine biologique, mais également mécanique, industriel, etc. L’œuvre de Bernd et Hilla Becher a fait ressortir cet aspect de la photographie. Ce qu’il est maintenant convenu d’appeler « l’école de Düsseldorf » a énormément influencé la photographie moderne.
Ceci dit, j’ai eu la chance, hier, de photographier une motocyclette incroyable! Le but était de la présenter dans son entièreté, mais je me suis également amusé à faire des « close-up » en m’inspirant des Becher.
It was said by Lamarck that the function creates the organ. . . This applies in the biological field, but also mechanical, industrial, etc. The work of Bernd and Hilla Becher brought out this aspect of photography. What is now known as the “Düsseldorf School” has greatly influenced modern photography.
That said, I was lucky yesterday to photograph an incredible motorcycle! The goal was to present it in its entirety, but I also had fun doing “close-ups” by taking inspiration from the Becher.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_et_Hilla_Becher
Several of these massive rolling billboards have found a home mingling with other legacy equipment in South Janesville. A couple were sitting in a nice location and it was too hard for me to pass up the opportunity.
For those who care, this is SSW 65057.
Ryan Fleage, the owner of Fleagle's Painting, is on top of NYC 243880, blasting away years of road grime on the X67-type 86' autoparts boxcar. It's the first step in painting the car back to its Conrail appearance from 30 years ago.
In 2019, when the board of the Conrail Historical Society agreed to pursue a boxcar to house a public museum and archives, CRHS President Rudy Garbely asked CSX for the biggest boxcar in the fleet. He did his homework, and found a block of X67's that were coming to the end of their 50 year lifespan, and put in a request. The answer we wanted came back at the end of the year: where do you want it sent?
We didn't have time to inspect it before being shipped, but when it arrived we were thrilled to find a car that had been completely overhauled in 2003, sporting significant rivet replacement, roof work and a total repaint that had protected the car from corrosion.
Fleagle started on the roof, stripping it and coating it silver. Then it was time to take the blue off the sides and replace it with Freight Car Brown.
The engineer of train No. 57 throttles up his SD40-2s as the train begins to climb the grade west of Waxdale.
The Rock Island locomotives belong to NAPM member Mike Sosalla; the freight cars belong to the club and are one of two auto parts trains which run during the club's operating sessions.
Photo by Mike Sosalla.
Visit the HO scale club on-line at www.napmltd.com.