The Rest of The Story

This is the back story or as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story. Yesterdays post Getting A Jump, I know why do I have a hyperlink to a post you can just scroll down to?Answer; What if you were at this post by another link. Hmm... Anyhow it had a lead in to how and why I got these shots.

First the why. I had left the Interstate in search of a location referred to by one of those brown historic site signs. Just exiting a town in western Maryland, I was crossing a rather high bridge and noticed this train yard below and though I might stop by on the way back to the Interstate.

I did make it to the rather anticlimactic "historic site" and headed back and did make it to the turn-off to what was a truck staging area for coal delivery. It looked like it had been some time since coal had actually been exchanged so I pulled into the staging area. With camera in hand, I made my way over to the tracks and started grabbing some shots. 

Things were going quite well when I noticed what looked to be a semi-official looking truck approaching from down the way. For some reason the rail system people do not like people hanging around. Especially tyrannical biased photographers. I ran into the same thing out in Portland last September when an Amtrak guard got a little fussy about getting too close to the tracks. Oh well, I am not going to get bent out of shape over it so in this case I simply moved towards the car and stowed my gear. After all, I had gotten the shots I wanted.

I got back down to Columbus last night and it looks like I will be doing a couple portrait sessions while I am here this week. That should be fun!

Have a great Tuesday all... Doug