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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The modified #Boeing 747-8i aircraft has been modified by #L3Harris Technologies after being gifted to President #Trump from the Qatari government. It features a new paint scheme chosen by President Trump. #airforceone #VC-25BBridge #VC-25B #USAF #ncpol #avgeek #news #presidenttrump #politics

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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

For the first time since September 2024 and since #Helene, an eastbound train crosses the #EasternContinentalDivide at the western portal of the Swannanoa Tunnel at #Ridgecrest on April 7, 2026. #hurricanehelene #WNC #oldfort #oldfortnc #ashevillenc #northcarolina #Swannanoatunnel #Swannanoagap

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The #OldFortLoops is a portion of track that ascends the Blue Ridge via approximately 13 miles of track for a straight-line distance of three miles. This area of track suffered severe damage from #Helene with numerous washouts. #hurricanehelene #WNC #oldfort #oldfortnc #ashevillenc #northcarolina

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This run essentially certifies the line for revenue #trains following repair efforts conducted by #NorfolkSouthern and contractor #RJCorman. This also restores all rail links into #Asheville to the first time since #Helene. #hurricanehelene #WNC #oldfort #oldfortnc #ashevillenc #northcarolina

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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 · 11/03/2026

#SamPage campaign manager Doug Isley celebrates after Page declared victory on March 3. #ncpol

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Rockingham County Sheriff #SamPage speaks with the media after declaring victory in the #primary #election for N.C. Senate District 26 by initially two votes over #NorthCarolina state #Senate President Pro Tempore #PhilBerger in #Stokesdale, N.C. on March 3, 2026. #ncpol #ncsenate #news #photog

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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

It is unknown how long this paint scheme will last on this airframe after a #C-32A was spotted on Feb. 16 with the new red, white, gold and dark blue #VIP transport fleet paint scheme. This is likely inspired from Trump’s personal #Boeing757 and is a departure from the Kennedy-era paint scheme.

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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

This aircraft primarily serves the #TACAMO mission by relaying instructions to #USNavy submarines. It also serves in the #lookingglass role as the Airborne Command Post in the event that land-based command centers for America’s #nucleartriad are unavalible or destroyed.

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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

Photos taken on assignment for the Triad Business Journal and published on Jan. 23, 2026. This feature story on Randy Lewis and his business was part of the TBJ’s “Triad Icons” series. #ranlewdairy #news #ncphotographer

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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

Trump’s rally at the Rocky Mount Event Center coincided with the redacted release by the Department of Justice of the Epstein files the same day. The President later flew to his residence at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays.

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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 · 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

More frames from the 30th anniversary celebration of the joint #Amtrak and #NCDOT #Piedmont service at #Raleigh Union Station on May 30. On assignment for Trains Magazine news wire

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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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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

To kick off the airshow, numerous #F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets flew in formation with a #KC-46.

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

More images from the U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle live fire demo during #wingsoverwayne2025 #wow25 at #Seymourjohnsonafb

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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

The modern replacement signals at North #Smithfield were activated on the morning of May 1 and the signals atop the last #AtlanticCoastLine signal gantry on the #CSX system were removed before its upcoming #demolition in the very near future.

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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

The April 19 #50501protests across the country, such as the one in #Greensboro, N.C. occurred on the 250th anniversary of the April 19, 1775 battles of #Lexington and #Concord at the start of the #RevolutionaryWar. #ncpol #America250

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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

My fellow photographer Garrett Rudd caught me chasing NS 955-13 north of Ruffin, N.C. on old U.S. 29. I chased the Masters Office Car Special starting in Jamestown then to Reidsville, Ruffin, and across the state line into Danville.

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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

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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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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