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Featured images, 2004-2005

This page provides access to a sampling of images added in 2004 and 2005 and featured on my "Recent images" page during the years that they were added. To view the current Recent images page, click on the links in this paragraph.

(Images on this page are in reverse chronological order, with 2005 shown first, then 2004.)

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October, 2005:

Duke Homestead State Historic Site, Durham, N.C.

During special events, costumed reenactors show what life was like in the late 1800 at this home where the Duke tobacco fortune started following the Civil War.

These and other new images add to many from this site made over a number of years.

050908 Later, at a different location, the landing craft is on a beach, where another container handler prepares to unload the container.

August, 2005:

Military transportation exercises, Fort Eustis, Va.

Fort Eustis is home of the U.S. Army's Transportation School. Operations depicted here were part of demonstrations of transportation capabilities for newly graduated Army officers who have been assigned to the Transportation Corps.

050776 Cutting flowers for sale.

McAdams Family Farm, Efland, NC

In July, I spent a day with the McAdams family of Efland, documenting events on their family farm.

 

I also visited the family's sales location at the Carrboro, N.C., Farmers' Market.

This was an assignment for Farm & Ranch Living Magazine.

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April, 2005:

N.C. State Port, Wilmington, N.C.

Heavy military equipment returning from Iraq is driven off a roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ship, the Cape Wrath, and then loaded on railroad flatcars for transport inland. The state port handles a substantial amount of military traffic.

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April, 2005:

N.C. Transportation Museum, Spencer, N.C.

An eclectic collection of equipment, most with ties to North Carolina, fills the former Southern Railway roundhouse at Spencer that is now part of the transportation museum.

For a description of the locomotives depicted, click on the image at left for a larger version with an extended caption.

March, 2005:

American Tobacco Co. Campus, Durham, N.C.

An artificial stream with multiple small waterfalls now flows through this former cigarette factory complex which has been converted to prime office and retail space.

Buildings underwent extensive rebuilding inside to adapt them to their new use while an effort was made to retain as much of the historic character of the exterior of the buildings as possible.

The modern Durham Centre building is visible in the background.

(For sample photos of this site at the height of restoration construction work one year earlier, see below or click here.)

I have a range of additional images from this site, both from 2004 and 2005.

February, 2005:

U.S. DOT Secretary visits Charlotte, N.C.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta toured state-owned railcars during a visit to Charlotte, N.C. In the photo at left, on board one of the coaches, N.C. Deputy Secretary of Transportation David King (left) makes a point to Mineta (right) as Charlotte Mayor Patrick McCrory (center) looks on.

North Carolina has invested in both rolling stock and track improvements for enhanced passenger service.

February, 2005:

Replica trolleys offer full schedule at Charlotte, N.C.

The addition of three newly built replica trolleys in late 2004 has enabled the Charlotte Trolley to go to a seven-day-a-week schedule. The photo at right was made from aboard southbound trolley car 92 as it meets car 93 at the passing siding near the Park Ave. trolley stop.

Though not operating at the speed or density of Charlotte's planned light rail system, which will use the same corridor, the trolleys already give southside residents the possibility of commuting into downtown Charlotte without an automobile.

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October, 2004:

Firefighter funeral, Durham, N.C.

When a well-respected deputy sheriff and volunteer firefighter died in a non-firefighting accident, law enforcement officers and firefighters from many central North Carolina agencies turned out for the funeral.

The casket was carried to the cemetery on a fire engine.

Brightleaf Square, Durham, N.C.

Brightleaf Square was one of Durham's first projects for converting former tobacco warehouses to new uses. The buildings of Brightleaf Square have long housed a variety of small office space and small shops as well as several restaurants.

In early 2004 the interior courtyard of Brightleaf Square was undergoing its second makeover.

 

American Tobacco Historic District, Durham, N.C.

 

April 2004: North Carolina Railroad (Norfolk Southern "H" line) at Funston, near Durham, N.C.

040243 Looking west at Funston, N.C., a railroad siding west of Durham, N.C., at sunset. Both tracks at this location (the main line at left and the siding at right) were completely rebuilt in 2003-2004.

These tracks are part of the North Carolina Railroad corridor, which stretches from Morehead City on the coast to Charlotte in the south of the state. The right of way is owned by the North Carolina Railroad Co., a corporation whose voting stock is held by the state. The tracks are under long-term lease to freight railroad Norfolk Southern but also see four Amtrak passenger trains per day.

Evidence of the beginning of the construction project can be seen just beyond the bridge.