U P 5314 at Klamath Falls Canvas Print

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A Union Pacific freight train in the yard at Klamath Falls, Oregon on the night of November 3rd, 2006. I was a passenger on Amtrak's Coast Starlight, which makes a 30 minute service stop here, long enough to get some great photographs. The Amtrak train was on the foreground track, just out of the picture on the left, so I didn't leave the passenger platform.

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...