This is a real jackpot of Norfolk & Western power with a nice bonus Southern SD40-2. I like seeing one of the Q-fan SD40-2s in there along with the C36-7. Thanks so much for posting these!
Hum, don't know if this is the place for this.... but I FINALLY got down to the tracks with my drone!!!! Here is a screen grab from the video! Happy dance!
On review, I noticed that my video suffered from a frames per second mismatch that resulted in a "stutter" Here is the recompiled file
Two ACL cars here, including a covered hopper at Montgomery, AL in May 1989 and a boxcar in MofW service at Camak, GA in March 1996.
Some freight car miscellany, including a CofG boxcar at Selma, AL in March 1985 (SOU bought the CofG in 1963), a neat CP 40' plug door boxcar at St. Johnsbury, VT in June 1988 (I still love the CP's old paint scheme) and a B&O covered hopper keeping the faith at Montgomery, AL in July 1988.
I usually don't photograph freight cars much anymore because I find graffiti unappealing. I grew up too long ago I guess. However, sometimes I just snap away as a train passes.
I'm glad that a friend encouraged me to shoot freight cars in the 80s and early 90s. I'm with you, in that I find graffiti ugly. These days I'll only shoot pictures of new cars that are clean of it or older cars that are mostly free of it. I can only imagine what this nice looking car looks like today with its irresistible white sides. [May 1991, Columbia, SC]
Wow! A REAL Carnation car! And, I agree with hating graffiti. It is NOT art and is breaking the law. One of the signs of the degeneration of American society. Doug
I have almost no photos in which can be seen that garbage. It must be something rather uncommon, for me to snap a picture including a crime.
I agree!!! Trying to justify it as "art" is worse than just a lame excuse. It is pure stupidity. It is usually two crimes. Trespass to begin it. (Very little of anything railroading is upon public property.) If deliberate to do the crime of graffitti, could then be criminal trespass. Then the crime itself, of destroying property not belonging to the sprayer. Those paint jobs wrecked cost many thousands of dollars, EACH.