A month ago, Kris and I drove by the Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport, Maine.

I loved this place as a kid. The old railway cars and trolleys fascinated me.

On our most recent visit, I found it stange to find a pair of Boston Blue Line cars on ‘Restoration Row’. It used to be that the cars at Seashore were all ancient relics from a time before I was born.

I applaud the museum’s foresight to have preserved these Blue Line cars for posterity and I hope they obtain the necessary resources to restore them. Maybe some day we’ll go for a spin on them

In 1999, I made a color slide of similar cars at work on Boston’s Blue Line, before I boarded a flight across the Atlantic.

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On March 10, 2015, I was at my old favorite location at ‘the box’ along the St. Johns Road in Dublin looking down at Islandbridge Junction.

I’d been waiting for locomotive 084 to come around leading a permanent way train.

The lighting conditions were perfect. The train came to a stop in front of me. I made a burst of photos with my Fujifilm XT1. And somehow I ended up with substandard images.

In one view, I’d held the camera off-level, in most of the others I’d committed a Phoenix Park Faux Pas by clipping the top of the Wellington Testimonial—that enormous obelisk otherwise known as ‘the monument’.

I don’t always get it right but I thought I’d share this pair of flawed photos as a lesson in paying attention.

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On 18 July 2007, I exposed this Fujichrome slide using a Nikon F3 with a f2.8 180mm Nikkor telephoto of trams crossing the river Danube in Budapest, Hungary.

This was among the photos I included in my photographic exhibition ‘Silver & Steel’ first shown in Palmer, Massachusetts later that year.

On a personal note, my paternal great-grandfather, Eddie, emmigrated to the USA from Budapest in the 1890s.

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Dublin’s LUAS Red Line operations had only commenced a few months before I made this view of a shiny new Alstom Citadis tram at Drimnagh along the Grand Canal.

This was before the trams were painted with yellow safety stripes and the 3001-series cars only consisted of segments.

I exposed this view in the afternoon of December 17, 2004 using my Contax G2 rangefinder fitted with a Zeiss 45mm lens.

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Thursday, North Conway was hit by a winter storm.

Saturday, when I drove to work it was -8F.

This was good Snow Train weather.

I made photos of the train crew and of the icicles on the railcars at Conway Scenic’s North Conway Station. These are some of the icy railcar images.

Photos exposed with a Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm lens.

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Kris and I drove Pennsylvania Rt11 north from Clarks Summit to Nicholson to view the immense concrete bridge over Tunkhannock Creek built by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western.

I wrote about this bridge in my book Railway Masterpieces. Here’s an excerpt of the text:

The bridge is made of ten vast arched spans, each 180 feet across. Each arch is supported by enormous piers, some of which are set as far as 95 feet below ground in order to reach solid ground. Some 167,000 cubic yards of concrete, and an estimated 1,140 tons of steel were used in the viaduct. The Lackawanna was a busy and profitable railway through the first decades of the 20^th century, but its fortunes waned as the Anthracite business declined.

I exposed these photos digitally using my Nikon Z series cameras. Over the years I’ve photographed trains crossing the viaduct from various vantage points. Those photos were all made on film.

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