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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

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 10

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jul 8

VENUS21 with a #C-40B makes a brief visit to #Greensboro on June 30. #USAF #avgeek #GSO

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jul 8

#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.

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

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.

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

#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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

Aviation action over Fort Bragg on June 10
#military #USAF #USArmy #fortbragg #fortliberty

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

More frames from the 30th anniversary celebration of the joint #Amtrak and #NCDOT #Piedmont service at #Raleigh Union Station on May 30.

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

#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.

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Jun 13

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 29

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 · May 16

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 · May 12

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 · May 10

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 10

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 10

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 · May 10

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 6

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 6

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.

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · May 6

#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.

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Apr 27

I was there the day after it burned

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Apr 27

I’ve been there!

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Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Apr 20

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

Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social · Apr 20

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 · Apr 20

#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.