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I almost didn't get this shot. It was raining so hard a few minutes earlier that it would have been perilous to get out of the car. But somebody up there likes me. Just a few minutes before the train arrived the rain stopped. I left my mother in the car (I was in Salem visiting her) and walked up a pedestrian overpass immediately north of the train station. I captured overhead views of the train stopped at the station (available elsewhere in this collection) and as it departed I made this image. Just as I was getting back into the car the sky began dropping buckets again. This all happened on November 2, 2006.

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...