A few more personal favorites
There are a few pictures that didn't make the " Railfan Five Challenge " that I thought would be nice to share nonetheless. In my quest to find 5 pictures for the 'Challenge,' I unconvered these as well. Though time has compressed these events and days into a blur, there was a time, many years ago, when a young man just wandered with a few trusty companions: an old Pentax LX, Velvia film, and the Lord. In the middle of the Iowa countryside, a few memories of yesteryear can still be found. Here, not far from the abandoned M&St.L railroad line, the single room school house rises above the browns of mid-winter and into the blue skies of cold, Canadian high pressure: There have been a few times when I have been awoken from slumber suddenly and without immediate cause. Still, more often than not, it seems my wakefulness has been just at the right time, for the right reason. It can be something like a phone call that needs to be answered, as the