Leaving the Station - a photo on Flickriver

This was my ninth week in the flickr group Get Pushed. The purpose of the group is to take a challenge from a partner assigned to you each week. For this challenge I was paired with Smile Moon. He has some really awesome work in his stream. It is definitely worth a visit. He has some really fun images in his stream.

Well, after examining my stream, he noted, "There appears to be a town located no more than ten miles south of you with a small airport and what my maps show to be several railroad lines. I would like you to capture some of the action to be seen there among the "heavy movers".

This was indeed a difficult challenge. Now there was a lot of irony in this push, as I have lived near either that small airport or those railroad lines all of my life, but have never really focused on photographing planes or trains, maybe because I've considered them somewhat of a nuisance because of the noise they produce. I eagerly accepted the challenge thinking, "Oh, this should be fun and I can easily get it done in time to meet the Friday deadline." Boy was I wrong. It seems that most of those trains snake their way past my house each day and rattle the dishes in the cupboards numerous times a day have become "nocturnal." I spent the last few days waiting for hours to catch an image of a train. So I decided to head down to the Sandpoint Train Depot which is on the National Register of Historic Landmarks to take some images of the station. Because Sandpoint is in the final stages of completing a Highway Bypass around the town, just getting to the depot was a challenge in itself. When I finally got there and started snapping images of the building, I was startled by the appearance of quick moving freight train. Then when I came home, I pulled off across the road to get a couple of images of the tracks then another train appeared out of no where.
This was an outstanding push for me, and I have had a great time working with and corresponding with Mr. Smile.

I hope that this meets your expectations Jeffrey. I still plan to try to capture more RR shots because I never really got the shots that I had in mind.

Thanks so much (Smile Moon) this was truly are great push project.

Check out Jeffrey's fabulous response to my challenge here It is a simply Fabulous!

Thanks for viewing and have a wonderful day. :D

Taken in: United States / Idaho / Sandpoint (show map)

Taken on: October 19, 2011

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