Cascades Tunnel 15 Metal Print

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This is Tunnel #15 in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. At 150 feet long, it is the shortest railroad tunnel in these mountains. It is located at milepost 553.9, 93 miles southeast of Eugene.

I made this shot from the rear window of Amtrak Train #11, the southbound Coast Starlight, on May 28, 2001.

NOTE: There is some slight motion blur in the image from the motion of the train, so the focus is a tad soft. It is most noticeable in larger prints when viewed close-up.

Photo Copyright James B. Toy.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...