U P 5353 at Dolan Road Wood Print

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On February 16, 2002 I went out to the Dolan Road railroad overcrossing in north Monterey County near Moss Landing. My main goal was to photograph the southbound Coast Starlight passenger train, which I did. On the radio scanner I heard that a northbound freight train was headed my way, and so I waited about 30 minutes for it to pass.

I was standing on the overpass as the train approached. I framed it in my viewfinder and suddenly the engineer blew his horn at me as if to say Hi! Startled, I jumped and almost missed the first shot.This was actually the second shot I made and it turned out the best shot of the day.

The lead locomotive UP 5353 is an EMD GP40-2.

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...