Number 31 at Amelia Island
This is an Alco S2 used to push the railroad cars around for the Smurfit-Stone paper mill at Fernandina Beach.  A long way from home, the sign on the side reads, "South Buffalo Railway". The original is oil on canvas.

Rusty Death
While nosing around the Port of Tampa in 1984 I came across this old train located on the current property of Transcontinental Marine Repair & Drydock.   I snuck the picture while poking my zoom lens through a chain link fence.  When I went back to the port in 2007 there wasn't a trace of it left.  This isn't my first airbrush painting, but it's the first one I kept. The original is done with acrylics on canvas.

Caribbean Maru
This is an airbrush painting  done from a photograph I took at sunrise at the Port of Tampa, about 1984.  The Maru changed ownership several times over the years.  It was last named Pietari Frost.  In 2008 it made its last voyage to Bangladesh where it was broken up.  The building in the background is the Waterman Steamship Corporation. It was demolished to make way for the present day cruise ship terminal.  The original is acrylics on art board.

Retired Farmers
This was done from a photograph I took while visiting some relatives in Alabama.  The trucks seemed to be dissolving into the very farm they had once served.  The one in the foreground is an International Harvester from the 1950's.  The original is oil on canvas.
 

327 Departing Dearborn Station, 1946
You can see I'm getting hooked on railroad art. This is my third railroad painting. The Santa Fe Super Chief was one of the most beautiful diesel engines ever designed.  This is exactly the way Dearborn station and the Chicago skyline would have appeared in 1946.  In the background the YMCA hotel can be seen with the original sign atop the roof.  Further back is the Metropolitan Tower. The original is acrylics on canvas.

Ready to Go
This was done from a photograph I took at the St. Petersburg airport.  I thought I'd flatten the background to give it a slightly abstract feel.  It looks like the plane is just sitting there waiting for its owner to come and take it for a ride.  The original is acrylics airbrushed on art board.