Postcards from the front
1,000 words with the click of a shutter
Below are some moments from past train trips...
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Under threatening skies I waited for several hours one morning in Western Pacific's Stockton yard for an eastbound. Just as it started to rain a train came out of the yard and the engineer hollered out that he'd go slow until I got on, which I did when an open boxcar came by shortly afterwards.
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Photo Bill and I are on our way back from a trip to Grand Junction, CO where we spent a few hours as guests of the Parachute Police Department as a result of an earlier "incident". Here Bill is enjoying getting sprayed with salt water as we cross the Great Salt Lake.
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After spending another Christmas with my family in So. Calif. I decided to ride back through Nevada and Utah, and here I'm passing Las Vegas at night.
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Stopped on a siding somewhere to meet another train that pulled by slowly, I briefly exchanged glances with another rider going in the opposite direction just a few feet away.
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With some almost-frozen Gatorade nearby, I get ready to bed down for the night in the Dunsmuir yard while waiting for a northbound.
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Another long wait for a train — this time in Klamath Falls on a cold but sunny day heading south.
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Inspired by the works of others who had gone before me, I add my comments to alleviate the boredom of waiting for a train.
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Heading over the Sierra after a major snowstorm, a cozy boxcar allowed me to check out the scenery in relative comfort.
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Another cold winter day in the Klamath Falls SP yard while I top off my "antifreeze" before heading down to Dunsmuir.