I prefer the "Susie-Q" from the 1960's with the miniskirt that they painted on at least one green 40' boxcar:
http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=34383
In the 1940's or so, a local newspaper printed a cartoon lampooning NYS&W's bankruptcy filing and Trustee Kidde's success in producing black ink from red. It was an old woman in a coffin riding the rails. She was sitting up looking forward, and the banner on the coffin said, "Funeral Postponed".
An eastbound stack train, SLN-4 at an underpass in Paterson, NJ caught me by surprise (gotta change those trucks!):
Hey?!?! Where'd my crossing signals go?!?!?:hehe:
Yes, the trim pieces on that station have been corrected. Somehow I missed them the first time.
Favorite photo spot - Marcal Paper by the Passaic River:
I keep counting ten pictures, not eleven, by the server insists IT is right, so I had to delete one...