The Historic High Bridge, constructed in 1848, stretches over the Harlem River and railroad tracks in the Bronx borough of New York City.

Highway Arbor, Rocky Road, Alabama

An American Civil War Cemetery is seen in contrast to a recently demolished cotton mill in the American South.

Restaurant Manager, Frisch's Big Boy, Kentucky

Before climbing the Snowy Range Mountains, Route 130 (also known as the Snowy Range Road) passes through Laramie, Wyoming. Here we see The Boardwalk, a local flea market and leatherworker.

A newly constructed house sits along the Ohio River in West Virginia.

A tree is seen overlooking the Sierra Madre Mountains and the High Plains of Carbon County, Wyoming.

The image shows the intersection of Willet’s Point Boulevard and 37th Ave in the borough of Queens, New York City. The area is colloquially known as “The Iron Triangle” or “Willets Point”. The area was originally the city’s ash pit and referenced in The Great Gatsby during one of their sojourns driving into the city. Since the 1950s it has been a junkyard and auto repair mecca. There is no plumbing or city services to the area – you can imagine the smell. In the last few years it has been in the cross-hairs of city government and private interests as they are hellbent on franchising the neighborhood into shopping and residences. In fact, demolition has already begun and the structure (if you would call it that, many of these auto repair shops were housed in nothing more than an arched steel shed) I stood on create this picture is now gone and the rest of the neighborhood seems to be following suit. I spent many days wandering Willets Point, which is really only about a 2/3 of a mile in size photographing the colorful facades and people that worked there. The figures in the scene are not posed, I waited about two hours for the right combination of light and subject placement. Like many of my images, the area was scouted out well ahead of time. Willets Point has been in my memory since I was a child, as my father would take his truck there for parts. It was shot on my 8×10″ camera using a Fujinon 600mm C lens and Kodak Portra 400 film.

Owens Tire Co, Corbin, Kentucky

Jeff sits under a tree during Spring in West Virginia. Next to him is the General Merchandise store that has been in his family since 1900.

Mother and daughter look toward Lake Michigan along the Indiana Dunes National Seashore

The Brownhoist bulding was originally completed around 1900 to assemble cranes.

In Western Pennsylvania, railroad tracks are seen through a collapsed structure along the Monongahela River.

Signage of strip-mall and a McDonald's fast foot restaurant surrounding a railroad crossing in Western Pennsylvania.

A basketball hoop is seen among a grove of trees, a nearby road bends off into the distance.

General Electric machinery is seen inside the power room of the Baldt Anchor & Chain Works.

A walkway leading to the steel mill in Mingo Junction, Ohio, stretches over the tracks.

Views North and Views South of the Overseas Railway in Florida Keys, completed by industrialist Henry Flagler in the early 20th century. Sections were destroyed by the Labor Day Hurricane in 1935 and the line was abandoned.

Exterior view of the Baldt Anchor and Chain Works.

Wyoming Highway 130 (Snowy Range Road) is seen here leading to the town of Centennial and the Medicine Bow Forest.

Coaling towers like this one were once used to refill a steam locomotive's coal supplies. They were constructed during the first half of the 20th century.

The Warner and Swasey Observatory is seen here from the interior of the main equatorial room.

NJT E8A #4325, ex-PC #4253, nee-PRR #5793A (MARC #61) is seen near a steel mill in Cleveland, Ohio.

An industrial spur line bisects houses in a suburban neighborhood.

This is the Greyhound Bus Museum in Hibbing. It was taken on a road trip to photograph railroad landscapes and the Iron Ore mine in Minnesota. A silver and blue bus sits alongside a replica of a bus depot.

Four boys, two of which are twins, stand infront of Battery McIntosh, a former coastal artillery base of the Endicott period. It is now a national historic site. This portrait was taken on 8x10 inch Kodak E100G film.

Grain elevators such as this one line the tracks throughout the United States.

Three crosses are seen on the foothills approaching the Medicine Bow Mountains.

In 1975 American Victory's sister ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost in Lake Superior with all her 29 crew aboard. The American Victory, formerly the Middletown, is one of the oldest and most historic ships on the Great Lakes. The ship saw duty during World War II on both the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean as a tanker, where she's credited with shooting down an enemy airplane. She was also hit by a Japanese bomber.

A train serving United Grain Industries is seen along a field in central Montana.

Railroad tracks parallel Interstate 90 as the natural Wyoming landscape recedes into the background.

Large building in the background was once part of Bethlehem Steel, a major employer in this rust-belt region of the United States. Steel mills closed rapdily during the 1970s and 80s. The building burned to the ground in 2016. This image was taken in 2009.

A hat is seen hung up on a tree among felled pine trees.

View of White Lake, South Dakota with Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific Railroad) Depot with Grain Elevator and Supersweet Feeds sign. A white car sits in front of the depot with railroad tracks alongside.

View of Norfolk & Western (Now Norfolk Southern) NA Railroad Tower in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Railroad tracks are visible on the left and residential houses on the right side.

Railroad Landscape of CSX Riverline, formerly West Shore Railroad, with historic architecture on the Newburgh Waterfron. Hudson River and Beacon in background.

This scene in Western Pennsylvania shows a graveyard and a large tree in the center of the frame under a cloudy bright sky. With a road stretching into the scene and a small shack below the tree, this scene was influenced by Aaron Copland's Appalchian Spring.

A house near Stony Point. New York overlooks CSX Riverline (former West Shore Railroad) with the Hudson River beyond the tracks. A car sits infront of the house and a small blue rowboat is upside down on green grass with a giant tree in the middle centering the scene.

Railroad Landscape View of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Site in Birmingham with Smokestacks and patchy clouds with a blue sky and railroad tracks in foreground

Railroad Landscape showing the Steelways Shipyard building in Newburgh, New York. Railroad tracks stretch horizontally along the bottom of this panoramic image with the building's glass windows reflecting various shades of blue. The railroad tracks are still actively used by CSX Transportation. Taken on large format 4x5 camera using 4 negatives stitched together.

Erie #833 sits on on a turntable as the sun sits low on the horizon. An E8 class locomotive built by General Motor's electro motive divison, ditch lights were added to this locomotive to meet FRA regulations for operation on main line railroad tracks.

Razed in 2015, Nepera Chemical is a superfund site and operated from 1942 until 2005. Nepera produced pyridine, used in agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, as well as niacin, a food additive. The American Flag on the tank is symbolic of declining industry.

A tree stands atop a rocky crest overlooking the valley as the warm light of an overcast sun illuminates the scene. Road signs for Route 19 and 460 point right. A barb wire fence separates the viewer from the tree.

This FL-9 Class locomotive is derived from the F Series units and was modified to operate using both third rail and diesel electric power. This allowed it to operate within New York City's electrified lines as well as points beyond.

Lehigh Valley #576 part of the collection of the Southern Railroad of New Jersey. Red and black paint scheme of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The black diamond represents its main commodity, coal.

This landscape detail was taken on the far reaches of Long Island, New York.

A solitary Ocotillo stands along the road in Joshua Tree National Park.

This tree sits on a rocky crest overlooking Wyoming Route 130, which connects the towns of Laramie with Saratoga and Walcott. The tree is on Brush Creek Ranch property, a luxury resort where I worked as the Ranch Photographer in 2017.

A former harness shop sits alongside the tracks and old Route 2 in West Virginia.

The Brownhoist building is seen here with railroad tracks running beneath it.

This is a view of the industrial neighborhood of Maspeth, Queens, New York City.

A footbridge stretches over a creek in the rural United States of America.