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NOTE: The logo watermark will not appear on purchased products. Photo copyright James B Toy

Amtrak's Train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, making its nightly stop in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The lights reflecting off the metallic exterior look like jewels in the night. I made this image in early November 2006, as I was traveling this train. Here at KFS the train gets serviced while the engineer and conductors end their shift and a fresh crew comes onboard. This gave me time to get a few photographs.

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...