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About Jake Mensel

I grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, a big railroad town, and that is where my interest in trains came from. There are 6 rail lines going in and out of Greensboro, and the closest to where I lived was the old A&Y Mainline that runs in the median between Battleground Avenue and Lawndale Avenue. I would sit in the parking lot of the grocery store and watch the daily local come up and run around their train at the Sears siding. I soon began going over the Amtrak Station on Oakland Avenue to watch trains. I started to seriously railfan around 1999, right after the Conrail merger, when the old Conrail power was still around. In 2003, I switched over to Digital Photography, and after that change I will never go back to film.

While my primary photography subjects are railroads, I also take a limited number of Nature and "Industrial Archaeology", or Urban Exploring photos when the opportunity arises, as well as some Human Interest pictures.

As you can see from the picture, I am also a firefighter in addition to a photographer.

Feel free to Contact Me at any time if you have any comments or suggestions!

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