Norfolk Southern Railway
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In the Shadow of Tuscarora Mountain.
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Working with November Light. The former Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division is one of the busiest freight routes in the eastern United States. On November 5, 2001, Mike Gardner and I spent the afternoon on Middle Division photographing Norfolk Southern freights….
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Colorful Consist Crossing the Connecticut River.
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July 10, 2014. We were waiting for Pan Am Southern’s westward empty autorack, train 206. This was just the gravy: Earlier Mike Gardner, Brian Jennison and I, had already had a productive summer’s day following the Mass-Central and caught Amtrak’s…
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On the Old Nickel Plate Road, April 1988.
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New General Electric DASH-8s Nose to Nose. In April 1988, I was exploring locations along Conrail’s former New York Central ‘Water Level Route’ west of Dunkirk, New York. Parallel to this line was the old Nickel Plate Road. Where the…
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On the Main Line near Cresson, Pennsylvania.
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June 30, 2010. This is one of my favorite classic locations. The abutments for the old Route 53 overpass across the former Pennsylvania Railroad between Gallitzin and Cresson offered a great vista for westward train in the afternoon. I exposed…
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Streamliners at Spencer; Friends and Faces—TRACKING THE LIGHT Special Post.
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Finding Familiar Faces Among the Masses. For me, the Streamliners at Spencer event was a great opportunity to meet friends, old and new. In addition photographing the equipment, I photographed the photographers. Below is a small selection. I’ll post more tomorrow! For…
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DAILY POST: BNSF SD70ACE at Enola, Pennsylvania.
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Location and Locomotive. Fifty years ago, it would have been pretty neat to see a Burlington GP30 at Pennsylvania Railroad’s Enola Yard. Yet for the context of that photo to be fully appreciated, it would help to have the location…
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DAILY POST: Trains Meet on a Summer Morning at Cassandra, Pennsylvania.
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Pleasant Morning on the West Slope. In contrast from the iced grip of winter, these photographs were made on June 30, 2010. This was a gorgeous warm summer’s morning; birds twittered the tree branches as the sun light streamed through…
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DAILY POST: Winners and Losers.
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Contrasting Views of Indiana Railway Lines, June 2004. In a world of railway mergers and consolidation, we can divide railway routes into groups; survivors and losers. Some lines have prevailed while others have been abandoned and ripped up. Of course,…
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Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, October 21, 2001
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Erie Railroad’s Starrucca Viaduct. In October 2001, I was working on my book Railroad Masterpieces (Published by Krause Publications in 2002). Among the featured ‘masterpieces’ was Erie Railroad’s magnificent Starrucca Viaduct at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. A classic Jim Shaughnessy under and…
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Norfolk Southern X999 on June 30, 2013
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Air Products Heat Exchanger on the Move. On June 30, 2013, Pat Yough and I photographed Norfolk Southern X999, an extra-dimensional (oversized load) move carrying an Air Products industrial heat exchanger. We photographed this twice. Once on the…
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On the Road with Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited
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Brian’s Trip on 448 Last week I rode from Chicago Union Station over the former New York Central Water Level route to Albany and then via the Boston & Albany to Worcester, Massachusetts. A familiar run, I first made…
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Ayer, Massachusetts, Wednesday May 29, 2013
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Three views of Norfolk Southern General Electric Dash-9s. Often I look to put trains in their environment by trying to find angles that show context. Not every railway scene is scenic. And, in the North East, more often than…
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Helpers at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania, November 3, 2001.
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Busy Morning on the old Main Line. This image of rear-end helpers on the back of a loaded Norfolk Southern autorack train was part of a sequence of photos I made at this location shortly after sunrise on November…
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Conrail: End of Days, May 29 1999.
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Morning at Fonda, New York. On the eve of assumption of operations by Conrail in Spring 1976, my father and I had explored railway operations in the New York City area. Twenty-three years later, we spent a long weekend in…