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Joseph Navin

@josephanavin.bsky.social
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Elon '24 Alum | Greensboro-based freelance reporter and photojournalist | #avgeek and #railfan #ncpol #ncwx watcher | Formerly: Elon News Network, NASASpaceflight | SIPA USA Contributor Website: josephanavin.wixsite.com/my-site

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The #USAF #VC-25B #Bridge #VC-25BBridge has been spotted over Greensboro, N.C. on June 22, 2026 on one of if not the first in a series of initial commissioning flights for the Qatari-donated jet before joining the #presidential fleet. The aircraft was unveiled by President #Trump on June 19. #NCpol
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The first revenue #NorfolkSouthern freight #train since #Helene to traverse the famous #OldFortLoops from #OldFort over the #BlueRidge to #Ridgecrest is currently scheduled to run this Saturday, April 18, 2026. The Old Fort Depot is arranging an event. #WNC #ncpol #Hurricanehelene #ncwx
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#NorfolkSouthern Track Geometry Train 90G makes the first post-Hurricane #Helene train run up the #OldFortLoops on the AS-Line on its journey from #Salisbury to #Asheville, N.C. on April 7, 2026. #hurricanehelene #WNC #oldfort #oldfortnc #ashevillenc #northcarolina
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Per Bryan Marshall on FB: reconstruction efforts on the #NorfolkSouthern #AS-Line should be done by mid-April or early May, 2026. The #train line runs between #Asheville and #Salisbury. The section between #OldFort and #Ridgecrest was severely damaged by #Hurricane #Helene. #NC #ncpol #WNC
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Rockingham County Sheriff #SamPage watches as primary #election results come in across #NC Senate District 26 at Oak Level Baptist Church in #Stokesdale, N.C. on March 3, 2026. #ncpol #ncphotographer #ncsenate #philberger #ncga #rockinghamcounty #republican #gop #news #photog
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The crew of “VENUS02” conduct touch-and-goes onboard #VC-25A no. 29000 using Runway 23L at Piedmont Triad International Airport in #Greensboro, N.C. on Feb. 24, 2026. The crew were likely from the First Airlift Squadron, 89th Airlift Wing at #JointBaseAndrews in #Maryland. #avgeek #aviation #usaf
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
#YadkinValleyRailroad #train MA-1 passes through #Pinnacle, N.C. on the CF-Line (milepost CF19.1) with engineer Roy Osborn at the controls and Doug Combs in the conductors seat on Feb. 11, 2026. Train MA-1 had two cars for industries in Mt. Airy. #yvrr #snow #ncwx #railroad #mountairy #nc
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Looking more like #Canada or the #Midwest than the Southern U.S., #Norfolksouthern daily manifest #train 118-30 approaches the outskirts of #Greensboro, #NC on Feb. 2, 2026. The train had “foreign power” with #CPKC locomotives from predecessor lines #CanadianPacific and #KansasCitySouthern. #ncwx
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A #USNavy #E-6B #Mercury “doomsday plane” from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma conducts touch-and-goes on Runway 23L at Piedmont Triad International Airport in #Greensboro, N.C. on Feb. 21, 2026. #avgeek #aviation #tacamo #nuclear #GSO #KGSO #e6bmercury #nucleartriad #boeing #nc
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The crew of VENUS61 conducts touch-and-goes in #USAF #C-32A no. 98-0001 at Piedmont Triad International Airport in #Greensboro, N.C. on Jan. 23, 2026. #avgeek #aviation
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Fifth-generation dairy farmer Randy Lewis works around the farm at Ran-Lew Dairy on a chilly morning on Dec. 22, 2025. The farm is located in southeastern Alamance County near Eli Whitney and Snow Camp, N.C. #ranlewdairy #dairyfarm #triadbusinessjournal #alamancecounty #photojournalism #farm #rural
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
President Donald Trump visits Rocky Mount, N.C. to speak about the economy on Dec. 19, 2025. The President also spoke about his endorsements of State Sen. Phil Berger and U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley. On assignment for SIPA USA #ncpol #trump #politics #photog
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I need to post here more often
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
VENUS21 with a #C-40B makes a brief visit to #Greensboro on June 30. #USAF #avgeek #GSO
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Christian Currao, a tower operator at #Amtrak Thorn Tower poses for a photo on June 20 - the tower’s final day of control over #Thorn Interlocking before being cutover to modern systems the next day in #Thorndale, Pa. The 87-year old tower will continue to be staffed until the end of 2025.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
#ReadingandNorthern T1 4-8-4 No. 2102 heads north from #Nesquehoning, Pa. into the #LehighRiver Gorge and the #PoconoMountains on the "The Road of Anthracite" towards #Tunkhannock on June 21. Two Reading and Northern diesels assisted the 2102 over the mountain between Mountain Top and Pittston.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Coal trains NS 768 NS 810 head down the Altavista District (ex-VGN) on June 14, featuring multiple N&W CPLs in their final days in Long Island, Va. and Aspen, Va.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
President Donald J. Trump visits Pike Field to speak to troops, families and the public to celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary of the U.S Army on June 10 in Fort Bragg, N.C. Trump watched a Special Forces Operations demonstration nearby prior to speaking. On assignment for SIPA USA
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#JetZero Co-founder and CEO Tom O' Leary presents a Z4 model to #NorthCarolina Gov. #JoshStein on June 12 after announcing #Greensboro as the site of their first #Z4 aircraft factory at Piedmont Triad International Airport. #ncpol #avgeek #aviation #news #photog
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Aviation action over Fort Bragg on June 10 #military #USAF #USArmy #fortbragg #fortliberty
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#NCDOT #Transportation Secretary Joey R. Hopkins presents the “City of Burlington,” painted in the original #Piedmont paint scheme to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the #Amtrak Piedmont service on May 30, at Raleigh Union Station in #Raleigh, N.C. On assignment for Trains Magazine news wire
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth takes to the stage at Pike Field in Fort Bragg, N.C. on June 10, 2025. The event commemorated the upcoming 250th anniversary of the U.S Army. For SIPA USA #fortbragg #fortliberty #petehegseth #ncpol #secdef #news #photog
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Firefighters from the Greensboro Fire Department respond to a second-alarm house fire on the 1700 block of Westridge Road on the evening of May 28 in Greensboro, N.C. #Greensborofiredepartment #fireinnc #Greensboro #news #local #firedepartment #guilfordcounty
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/05/2025
Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
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Bryan Anderson @bryanranderson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
On Wednesday, the GOP's streak of 17 consecutive statewide judicial victories will end, as Riggs will have her state Supreme Court win certified. Since GOP lawmakers made such judicial contests partisan, Republicans have gone 22-5. #ncpol
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets perform a live fire demo during the Wings over Wayne 2025 airshow on May 3 at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in #Goldsboro, N.C. #USAF #F-15E #Seymourjohnsonafb #airshow #avgeek
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds preform on May 3 in the skies over Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C. for the Wings over Wayne 2025 airshow. #USAF #Thunderbirds #WOW25 #SeymorJohnsonAFB #goldsboronc #avgeek #airshow
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
U.S. Air Force Maj. Josh “Shadow” Burress of Greensboro (Left) prepares to start up his #F-16C #FightingFalcon jet, Thunderbird Two, during the 2025 Wings Over Wayne airshow on May 3 at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in #Goldsboro, N.C. #wingsoverwayne2025 #wow25 #seymourjohnsonafb #thunderbirds
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
#CSX northbound #train #L607 clears the newly-activated signals at CP North Smithfield (A-164.4) and the now-inactive #AtlanticCoastLine Railroad signal gantry near sunset on May 3 in #Smithfield, N.C.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Protesters march by the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, the site of the 1960 #Greensboro sit-ins by the at the then F. W. #Woolworth Co. department store during the #50501protests against the #Trump administration on April 19 in Greensboro, N.C. #protests #A&Tfour #ncpol
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
#CSX local #train L606 heads south with #CSXT1186 (fmr. SCL 4216) a MP15AC in the lead on home rails south from #Henderson along the ex-Seaboard #S-Line on April 18 through #Franklinton, #Youngsville, across the Edgeton Interlocking, and past the now-vacant #Seaboard Station in #Raleigh.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
#Norfolksouthern #train 955-13, the Masters Office Car Special makes the long trek northwards through North Carolina on April 15 back to Altoona, Pa. after the historic conclusion of the 89th #MastersTournament in Augusta, Ga. The #SouthernRailway retro unit led the way in #NC on home rails.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The Samaritan's Purse Douglas DC-8-72 Combi (N782SP) approaches Runway 23L at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. on April 14 on the return trip from Bangkok, Thailand via Anchorage, Ak. after delivering earthquake relief to Myanmar. #avgeek #DC8 #Greensboro #aviation #n782sp
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Today is April 14. Exactly 113 years ago tonight, the White Star Line's RMS #Titanic would strike an iceberg and sink, claiming the lives of roughy 1,500 people.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The #NorfolkSouthern #Masters OCS, NS 955-31 passes under the #SouthernRailway signal gantries at CP Adams on April 1 in Concord, N.C. ahead of the 89th playing of the Masters Tournament at #Augusta National Golf Club, where #RoryMcIlroy would take the green jacket and complete the grand slam.
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Kyle Ingram @kyleingram.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
NEW: In split decision, NC Court of Appeals rules in Republican Jefferson Griffin's favor in his challenge of 65,000 votes. However, they order a 15-day cure period, rather than immediately throwing out all ballots #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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NC Court of Appeals gives 65,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Samaritan's Purse #Douglas #DC-8 Combi departed #Greensboro, N.C. this morning, March 31 bound for #Myanmar via #Calgary, Canada to deliver aid after the 7.7 magnitude #earthquake on March 28. While departing, the jet (due to be retired at the end of 2025) blasted pollen off the runway. #ncwx
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Two former Kansas City Southern locomotives lead #NorfolkSouthern loaded ethanol train 6W4 southward through Ruffin, N.C. on March 26. #fallenflag #KCS #CPKC #NS
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#NorfolkSouthern #train 746 winds its way down the former Norfolk & Western #Winston-Salem District and onto the Belews Creek spur to deliver #coal loads to Duke Energy's #BelewsCreek Steam Station on March 28.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
#NorfolkSouthern intermodal #train 28R opens up the throttle past "Devils Dip" along the former Southern Railway mainline on March 26 near #Pelham, N.C.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#Amtrak #Piedmont 73 with "the city of #Asheville" in the lead crosses over the 87-year-old truss #bridge over Webb Avenue in #Burlington, N.C. as #spring blooms on March 25. The bridge was built by the Greensboro-based Carolina Steel & Iron Co. in 1938. #ncwx #NCDOT #RNCX1797
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A #Delta 717-200 operating #DAL3173 from Atlanta, Ga. takes taxiway E towards the terminal after landing at Piedmont Triad International Airport in #Greensboro, N.C. on Runway 23R on March 20. #avgeek #flyfrompti #GSO #PTI #Boeing717
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#NorfolkSouthern local train P05 passes by the #WGHP-TV #FOX8 broadcast television transmitter tower in #Sophia, N.C. on the second day of spring, March 21. The "thank you to our railroaders" locomotive, NS 4822 trailed on the run south towards #Asheboro. #ncwx
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Near one inch #hail here in NE Greensboro. #ncwx
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Northbound #NorfolkSouthern manifest #train NS 119-05 rounds the curve towards the intermediate signals at Hilltop towards #Greensboro, N.C., at #sunset on March 5 with conductor Jeffrey Hurley on board the first #SD70ACC DC to AC conversion rebuild.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Norfolk Southern's Southern Railway unit, NS 8099, sits at Greensboro's Pomona Yard during the night on Feb. 28 on former Southern Railway territory with conductor Jeffery Hurley on board while leading train 134. The first AC44C6M, NS 4000 works the yard in the background.
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Curtain call for the TCB Brian Clarey, co-founder and former Publisher/Executive Editor of the Triad City Beat speaks inside Scuppernong Books in #Greensboro, N.C. on Feb. 28 as weekly paper celebrated 11 years of business after publishing the final edition on Feb. 20. #TriadCityBeat #localnews
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#NorfolkSouthern train 746 arrives at Duke Energy's #BelewsCreek Steam Station on Feb. 24 with bituminous #coal loads to feed the hungry Babcock & Wilcox boilers at the plant. The plant creates electricity for the #PiedmontTriad region. #dukeenergy
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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Four U.S. Marine Corps pilots fly AV-8B Harrier II "jump" jets into Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C. on Feb. 22 to refuel twice on a training flight from MCAS Cherry Point. #MCASCherryPoint #VMA223 #Bulldogs #USmarinecorps #Harriers #AV8B #avgeek #Greensboro
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