Coast Starlight at Klamath Falls Wood Print

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Amtrak's Train #14, the northbound Coast Starlight, stops at Klamath Falls on May 6, 2005. It's a typical rainy day in southern Oregon. I was a passenger on this train, and since Klamath Falls is a service stop, there is plenty of time to photograph the train. Klamath Falls is a great station for photography because the station platform is on a curve, making it easy to show the entire train.

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...