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CN Local L514 is eastbound passing the approach signals for the Dyer, IN CSX interlocking, but still in Lynwood, IL. The aggregate loader has been there since the 1950's; one famous shot is of an EJ&E shark sitting here. This run has an assigned ICG caboose for the back up move from Griffith as far as Matteson, IL.
Photo by John Eagan
6880 'Betton Grange" passing Tanygarth cottage in the stunning Dee Valley with a Ruabon to Barmouth local.
Taken during a TLE charter.
Came upon this eerie scene the other day while exploring a vacant rental property just a couple of doors down from my house. I'd been here several years ago, but had avoided the place in recent years after a rather inhospitable family had taken up residence. I often sensed being glowered at by shadowy figures out smoking cigarettes on the back porch as I walked past. No open hostility but very off-putting nonetheless. I noticed a huge heap off trash on the front lawn a couple of months ago, immediately followed by an absence of vehicles and people. The family had moved without notice and the place was left vacant and in shambles. The house appeared okay, but the barn out back was jammed full of junk and the backyard was littered with trash, beer bottles, broken lawn furniture, and old couch; basically everything you would expect from years of careless neglect. But what stopped me in dead in my tracks were tattered remnants of Halloween decorations. Nothing horrific but the fact that they had been out here since last October made them infinitely more creepy than when they were new. These bats in particular just fascinated me. They weren't even store-bought; simply fashioned from black landscape cloth and stapled to the wall. The fluttered easily in the evening breeze, starling me again with each movement. The sense of connection I feel at abandoned houses is always enhanced with little reminders such as this of the former residents. Here the effect was compounded because that connection was being viewed through the lens of Halloween, a day I associate with many fond memories in my own life dating back to childhood. Whoever created these bats and hung them here probably could not envision that they had only a couple of months remaining to live on the property. Or that someone like me would come upon their bats months later and chronicle the experience. Funny how life turns out. Halloween 2019 was just six months ago but right now that feels like a chasm in terms of how the world had been upended since then. I left the bats exactly as I found d them, still fluttering against the back wall of this old barn.
Norfolk Southern local train H04 is returning across the Bush River at Willoughby Beach over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor on March 26, 2021.
Some of the typical for the time Burlington Northern local power sits out the weekend at Rochelle in 1995.
Within a year, the merger with Santa Fe would transform the motive power, and not for the better. Still, it was nice while it lasted.
Orange wedgies just don't cut it.
150245 heads into Pontypridd with a local service to Cardiff. These units look set to remain on these lines for the foreseeable future, unlike their Pacer counterparts. 2F32 11:16 Treherbert to Cardiff Central
Having wrapped up their work in the industrial park CSXT local L011 headed back west on the lead they call the Chocolate and are paused just east of the station beside Amtrak's Northeast Corridor mainline waiting for traffic to clear.
Once they get their window, they'll open up on Main 2 and run down thru the station to crossover then reverse back up Main 1 to the other side to get in the clear on the Framingham Secondary and head back home to Walpole. They are still using the same unit I shot them with a few weeks prior, GP40-2 6233 (EMD blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4334 delivered in Chessie System paint).
Mansfield, Massachusetts
Monday November 13, 2023
Norfolk Southern GP33ECO 4703, rebuilt from Southern Railway GP50 7091, had one hopper car in tow as it rolled past the vintage searchlight in downtown Hammond on the Chicago District.
A few months later, this vintage signal was removed.
To continue the theme of photographic experimentation; this is a portrait of Margaret who runs our local corner shop, and has done for her whole working life. It's a bit of a landmark pic for me as it's the first time I've actually managed to ask a stranger if I can take their picture. I'm really pleased with the result and hope to maybe do a series on local people and services and the degree to which they are being squeezed out by mass-market capitalism.
Many thanks for taking the time to look :)
Framed by some of the last fall color in the area, Conrail Shared Assets local BS-3 eases out onto the Pennsy-built bridge over the Delaware River. Heavy rains have swelled the river, and white-capped waves can be seen passing under the bridge.
Montana Rail Link's Paradise Local heads back west to Paradise after working Tricon Timber in St. Regis, Montana. The pair of GP9s leads the local past a patch of turbulent water in the Clark Fork River.
Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family. Most species are placed in the genus Gallinula, Latin for "little hen". They are close relatives of coots A familiar black bird of our lakes, ponds and rivers, the Moorhen is widespread
Reading & Northern's PISB (Pittston Scranton Business) local passes through Duryea PA just east of Pittston on their way to Norfolk Southern's Taylor Yard and the Scranton Business Park just ahead. August 3, 2021.
NS Atlanta South District local G15 is on the McDonough Industrial Lead waiting to work Ken's Foods. McDonough, Georgia October 4, 2018
Camera: Rollei 35
Lens: Tessar f/3.5 40 mm
Film: Kodak Gold 200
Exposure: 1/125 sec and f/5.6, hand-held
Film developed and scanned by Foto Brell, Bonn
Edited under Adobe Lightroom
Besides attempting to capture the autumn colors of my local forest, I wanted to test my recently acquired Rollei 35 and also the look of Kodak Gold in dull weather.
Candid urban image taken of life on the streets of Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, South India. Taken with a 50mm lens and edited in Lightroom.
Photo from ongoing project 'Local city'.
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A pair of Norfolk Southern GP38-2 rebuilds glisten under the bright yard lights on a humid summer night at Suffern's Hillburn Yard.
Unassigned NS @ Hillburn Yard, Suffern, NY
NS GP38-2 5610
NS GP38-2 5611
Mayville Local at Portland Junction. The Portland leg is only used for car storage anymore but the Mayville leg sees regular traffic.
A recreation of a Great Central stopping train heads past Woodthorpe during a Timeline Events photo charter in 2015.
Locomotive: LMS Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 45305.
Location: Woodthorpe, near Loughborough, Leicestershire.
I was surprised by the sun reflecting in the pond because the sun was behind me. It was reflecting off of the windows of a house with many windows overlooking the pond. so, it's a double reflection.
As we sat enjoying a cold drink, this beautiful collared dove, drifted across our garden. Only he wasn't a collared dove.
Last night as we had drinks with friends he joined us twice along with a local hedgehog. Sadly my camera was at home.
Sparrowhawk (Accipiter Nisus) Male
Our Garden
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