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Joseph Navin
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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: https://josephanavin.wixsite.com/my-site
VENUS21 with a #C-40B makes a brief visit to #Greensboro on June 30. #USAF #avgeek #GSO
July 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
#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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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.
July 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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
June 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#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
June 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Aviation action over Fort Bragg on June 10
#military #USAF #USArmy #fortbragg #fortliberty
June 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#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
June 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
To kick off the airshow, numerous #F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets flew in formation with a #KC-46.
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
More images from the U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle live fire demo during #wingsoverwayne2025 #wow25 at #Seymourjohnsonafb
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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
May 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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
May 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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
May 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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.
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#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.
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
April 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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
April 20, 2025 at 4:22 AM
#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.
April 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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.
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
#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.
April 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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
April 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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.
April 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM