Something About a Train

Many years ago, in another city in another life, I worked with a photographer named David Plowden. Extraordinary landscapes and images of decaying Americana - barns, factories, small towns and trains. A PBS affiliate in Michigan, I think, did a documentary on him that showed how painstaking the construction of great images can be - should be. I thought of him as I tried my best to be patient waiting for this train, waiting for the positioning to be just right. Also shot out in Riverside. This image, too, will look better smaller - it was scanned from the contact sheet.