I love photographing vintage subjects, such as old gas pumps, trucks, cars, railroads, barns, farm equipment, bridges and assorted historical or abandoned buildings, with my infrared camera. Infrared photography is well suited for making stunning high contrast black and white images. As we often associate or picture things from the past in “black and white”, there is a natural psychological connection between vintage subjects and infrared photography!
Vintage gas pumps and truck in the Cabins, WV area.
Several of the remaining buildings located along the "Main Street" tracks of the nearly abandoned town of Thurmond, WV. Thurmond is designated on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by the National Park Service.
The iconic looking National Bank of Thurmond and the passing Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) railroad tracks, both once the lifeblood of this coal mining town.
This single track railroad bridge crosses the New River and leads into the historic remnants of the town of Thurmond, West Virginia. Its unusual shape and amazing steel work are very eye catching, especially against a background of white foliage.
The bridge was built in 1915 and features metal riveted polygonal truss construction and an attached one-lane highway for vehicles.
The ruins of a coal loading station for passing trains in Thurmond, VA. Thurmond was an important switching center for the C&O, a place where short trains from mines in the area were assembled into longer trains for shipment to markets on the main line.