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One hundred years ago, Winslow Junction was at the center of the busy rail line carrying vacation passengers to the New Jersey shore. Michael Brotzman quite literally gets into the weeds of what's left of this now abandoned railroad. Click here to join Mike and explore the "Ghosts of Winslow Junction"

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Waiting for the train

Delaplane, Virginia 

The colors of age

Marshall, Virginia 

A creek runs under it . . .

Linden, Virginia 

Side of a barn

Linden, Virginia 

While I was chasing Norfolk & Western 611 earlier this month, I had time to take some pictures while I waited for the train. In Linden, this building stood adjacent to the tracks and may have at one time had a connection to the railroad.  There was once a siding here, and the street is called Station Lane. Needless to say, trains no longer stop in Linden.

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Today, on The Trackside Photographer, Rob Richardson babysits his grandchildren, deals with the heat in Yuma Arizona and still manages to get trackside with his camera. Click here to read "Babysitting and Railroads."

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Blog Note

We will be taking a few days off this week. Will resume on June 27th.

Fog

Shenandoah National Park 

All of the pictures this week in the Shenandoah National Park were taken on May 23, 2016. At the foot of the Blue Ridge, the trees were summer lush, but on the mountain that day, spring was still emerging in rain and fog.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading Photography In Place.
 

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Few visitors to the town of Arusha, Tanzania ask to see the train station. The last train ran over a decade ago. But during a recent trip to east Africa, Andrew Morang visited the abandoned railroad depot and recorded his impressions in words and photographs. Don't miss today's article on The Trackside Photographer. Click here for "The Last Train to Arusha"

The Trackside Photographer is the website dedicated to the railroad landscape.

New leaves

Shenandoah National Park 

Picnic table

Shenandoah National Park

Tree trunks

Shenandoah National Park

Passing through

Marshall, Virginia

Norfolk & Western 611 steams past an old industrial site on the outskirts of Marshall, Virginia on Sunday morning, June 5, 2016.

Enjoy the upcoming weekend, and as always, thanks for reading Photography In Place.

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On The Trackside Photographer today,  David Kahler explores the history of a century-old freight depot in Sanford, North Carolina.. In the early years of the 20th century the Atlantic Coast Line, Southern, Seaboard and Atlantic & Western railroads all passed through Sanford. Still in use by the railroad, the old wooden building is frail, but "Standing Tall" (Click here to read more)

The Trackside Photographer is a website dedicated to the railroad landscape.

Eastbound

The Plains, Virginia 

Norfolk & Western 611 on the return trip to Manassas, Sunday morning, June 5th.

Westbound

Marshall, Virginia 

611 headed west in a light rain at Marshall, Virginia on Sunday morning.

More steam

Linden, Virginia 

Norfolk & Western 611 on the return trip a few miles east of Front Royal, Virginia on Saturday, June 4th.

Steam

Delaplane, Virginia 

This past weekend Norfolk &Western's J Class 4-8-4 steam locomotive 611 led three round trip excursions between Manassas and Front Royal. In the picture above, 611 passes through Delaplane, At the time of the Civil War, Delaplane was known as Piedmont Station, and it was here that Stonewall Jackson loaded his troops into rail cars bound for the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas). It was the first time the railroad was used to move troops into battle.

Feed and Supply

Clearbrook, Virginia 

I left Winchester on old Route 11 and followed the railroad tracks north. A few miles out of town I came on this old feed store. The tracks are not visible in this picture, but they run directly behind the building.

Have a great weekend and thanks for reading Photography In Place.

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Today, on The Trackside Photographer, the webside dedicated to the railroad landscape.

Thirty year ago, Eric Gagnon set out to photograph the remaining wooden-crib grain elevators strung out along the tracks of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railroads in Saskatchewan. Now they are gone, but their memory lives on in Eric's photographs of these "Wheat-Filled Wonders." (Click here to read)

Broken fence

Winchester, Virginia

Broken window

Winchester, Virginia