About the site

This site was originally started using posts from my old Google+ profile. I was able to export the Google+ posts and import them into this blog just before Google+ was shut down in early 2019. Many of the posts on this site are still in a social media format, rather than a blog format, due to the way this site was started. This is why you will see some posts that have hashtags and very short descriptions in them. Slowly, things like that will go away as I clean the posts up.

Before I started posting on Google+, I ran my own webserver and website, running off of my home's Internet connection. If you used to follow my photography on that old website, The Web Yard (hosted at gatermannt.homeip.net), this site is its replacement.  If you choose, you can follow me by subscribing in a number of ways. You can also contact me via email.

Updated: 2022-02-25

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Where to Find Me After G+

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CSX 7570 - TRRA Merchants Subdivision - St Louis - July 2008

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CSXT 7570 - St. Louis, MO CSX 7570 rolls south (away from the camera) on TRRA's Merchants Subdivision , in North St. Louis. CSX 7570 and another locomotive were trying to make a quick run past the mini-Death Star in the background. The large "Death Star" dome is part of Continental Cement Company. This photograph is looking south, from just north of Clinton Street.  CSX 7570 is a  General Electric built C40-8 model locomotive. The locomotive was built in 1989, for the CSX railroad. Since this photograph was taken, the locomotive has been sold off to GECX , a railroad leasing company, and is now GECX 7570. Photograph taken: July 14, 2008, at St. Louis, Missouri.
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CSXT 3191 leading I020-23 in the fog at East Syracuse, NY

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CSXT 3191 leads I020-23 eastward through the rain and fog at East Syracuse, NY., on Christmas Eve.  No white Christmas for Syracuse, NY., this year. The closest the area got was rain and fog on Christmas Eve. Here, CSXT 3191 leads priority intermodal train I020 (Bedford Park, IL., to Worchester, MA.) east through rain and fog at East Syracuse, NY. The train is passing through CP-286 of the Syracuse Terminal Subdivision . I020 would cross from Track 2 to the North Runner and head into CSX's DeWitt Yard . Photograph taken on December 24, 2023.
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A Stack Train Going Through A Signal Bridge On The Marceline Subdivision

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A Union Pacific double-stack train passes under one of the old Santa Fe style signal bridges along BNSF's Marceline Subdivision . Today, I believe that all of these old signal bridges are now gone, having been replaced with newer tri-color modular block signals that sit atop signal poles alongside the tracks. These signal bridges, I thought, always added a nice touch of framing when photograph trains along this line. May 26, 2005. Wyaconda, Missouri.
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B705, with CN 3863 and CN 3099, tied down at Belle Isle in Solvay, NY

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This ariel view looking is looking across B705 in the Belle Isle siding, toward the FGLK yard at Solvay, NY.     After photographing Z520-10 on Tuesday , I noticed that loaded ethanol train B705, with CN 3863 and CN 3099, was tied down in Belle Isle siding. With the drone still in the air I captured this view, looking west, of B705 sitting at Belle Isle with the Finger Lakes Railway (FLGK) yard behind the train. The industrial complex right behind the rail yard is the former Syracuse Energy Corp. (SEC) cogeneration power plant. The coal-fired power plant supplied electricity and steam power to nearby companies. In September 2013, the plant closed when its biggest customer built and began using its own power plant. Per a news article at Syracuse.com, The customer built its own power plant due to concerns about SEC keeping the plant open. Photograph taken on October 10, 2023, at Solvay, NY.
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