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Field Recordings

3 Mar 2012

Ash Hill, Westbound

[box style=”rounded”][/box] A bird (hey, I’m a railfan, not an ornithologist!) is perched atop a telegraph pole, while a BNSF crew gives a quick blast of the horn to the signal maintainers standing by in their trucks, as we hear the squeal of 85-foot flatcars hustling Schneider and Hunt trailers to their west coast destination.

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Field Recordings

3 Mar 2012

Tunnel 2 (Bealville, Calif.)

[box style=”rounded”][/box] Perched atop the hill at Tunnel 2, we witness a meet on the Bealville siding on UP’s Mojave subdivision at milepost 337.8. Note the headlight of the approaching northbound, behind our slow-moving southbound. March 5, 2006.

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Railroads

3 Mar 2012

CRPA Railroad Photo Contest – “Judges Also Liked”

In a bit of self promotion, I’m happy to share that two of my photos placed in the Center for Railroad Photography and Art‘s 2012 photography contest. This is my fourth year participating the CRPA contest and I’m happy to place amongst such a talented group of photographers, especially considering the theme of this year’s […]

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Railroads

4 Feb 2012

Railroad Radio Alarm detectors

I’ve resurrected the 1990’s-early 2000’s collection of railroad radio alarm detectors that I started in the East Penn Rail days, and expanded thanks to many Eastern Railroad News contributors. Take a listen!

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Model Railroading

29 Jan 2012

More Model Trains

I often get the question “Do you have model trains, too?” Well, sorta. I did as a kid, and I’ll focus on that for today. When I was in fourth grade, we bought a house in Allentown, Pa. After about a year, my Dad showed up with a 4×8 of plywood, which was the beginning […]

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Commercial Work

29 Jan 2012

BizNS Magazine – Dec 2011

Over the last several years, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to work on a few photography assignments with Norfolk Southern‘s Corporate Communications department. Through the assistance and encouragement of many great folks there, each photo shoot has produced better and better results. Another noteworthy aspect of this work is that longtime friend Lou Capwell has been […]

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