Moved into a retirement facility and want to sell all my camera gear. Will sell the lot or piece it out. No shipping - local pick up only. Priced the majority of the equipment through the KEH on-line buying process so do know a reasonable total value of around $2,500.00 that they would pay me. E-mail only - tson35@icloud.com

This Lens has just been sold!

Thanks to everyone who asked about it, Tommy

Well I almost don't want to say this but I think it is sold. Another member contacted me and said if I'd get the postage cost he would PayPal the money to me but I don't have it in hand - yet. Thank you for your inquiry.

Thanks, I plan on getting a few to post today as well as put a little more info into the post too. I have several other items to post for sale soon as well. Downsizing a bunch due to advancing age.

Have a mint Canon 400mm lens for sale. Used very few times with all the factory "in the box" components. $2,500 FOB Fort Worth, Texas; tson35@icloud.com

I never seen a large steam engine (except in action in the 1940's) away from a museum (saw one a couple years ago in the Henry Ford museum in Detroit) and now 4041 will stop in my city just a couple miles from my home! I'm expecting to have to work my way through crowds of sightseers and would like some thoughts on the minimal equipment that should be in my bag. I am thinking, since I'll most likely have to walk quite a distance I'll carry my Canon 80d, 17-55mm f2/8 and 70-200 f2/8 lenses. Nothing else except maybe a spare battery. Being in my 80's but with a new knee I should be able to walk at least a mile from a parking place and back again. Really don't have a clue what to expect - the excitement is building!

The photo was taken while driving north on Chisholm Trail Parkway in between Bryant Irving and Montgomery. The engines are being slowly removed from that parking space alongside the large repair/service buildings. Actually even seeing trains numbering almost 100 cars arriving into the city again after seeing no more than 40 car trains during the last year. Good sign the economy is rebounding.

Guess the economy is picking up a little judging by the length of freight trains. This morning a 100 car train passed by, the last time was over a year ago. At that time there would be several per week.
Throughout the last year most trains had an average of 35 cars and there were less per week.
Several 80+ car trains have passed by in the last couple weeks and one 94 car train.
Glad to see the hundred cars and four engines traveling by this morning.

Well heck Dick, 1939 was a good year for both of us. Glad to hear it was last year you were incapacitated and hope this year you will continue to get better.
I had a new knee put in last spring - the last such before the city shut down. So guess that was good timing. There was no place I could go anyway so the convalescing period for me was not all that terrible.
Just returned from a walk downtown - totaling 30 blocks in beautiful weather. Darn, wish I'd taken my camera, spring is springing.

Really like the first one - looks like a powerful animal waiting to strike it's prey from the bush!

That was just up the road a piece from where we lived. Between the towns of San Saba and Goldthwaite. We were east of there in Nix Texas. Seems like that bridge had a real erosion problem at one end about 25 years ago, almost fell down.

Oh yeah, did the locked gate thing! Our home/barn complex was about a half mile back in the woods from the farm to market road and a mile or two from any other home. Trouble was the Fort Hood choppers flew around the hills we were in to practice hiding from the enemy and then pounce.

One of my daughters was picking up big round bales of hay and after stabbing one, turned around to see a big troop transport chopper about to land in front of her. She was so startled her foot slipped off the clutch and the tractor lurched forward right under the chopper.

Said she could see lots of faces peering at her out the windows - maybe she shouldn't have worn her bikini that day...

Agree!

We moved here from our ranch out in the western part of Lampasas county a few years ago when my wife's eye sight started failing. We raised big Brahma Hereford cross cattle and figured being in our eighth decade was time to try a little gentler lifestyle. Couldn't be more happy with our choice of cities.

Think about me the next time you are enjoying being out on that tractor in the country terrain and fresh air!

Yep, you got it. We live on the 17th floor at Trinity Terrace and the camera was looking south west.

I've missed shots like this before so think I better dig up an old body with a shorter lens than the 70-200mm on the one sitting by my chair. Couldn't back up enough to get much of the bird in the frame much less any of the background showing the perspective. Even with the wide cell phone lens the crow sitting 6 feet away screaming at the hawk could not be included in any of the shots.