Look I know I can't draw worth crap but put a camera in my hands and I can tell a story through a lens or capture moments that may never be seen again.
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A BNSF Toaster passes by the then falling apart Phil Smitds. Once known for its fresh seafood and famous frog legs, the Empress, now Horseshoe, Casino killed it off. Not long after I took this photo, the building met the wrecking ball. Another memory captured on lens that grew up with was gone then
I started watching trains here at this spot when I was 3. I'm 26 now and I've been coming to the same spot for 23 years. I've seen the changes: my grandfather trading his beatuiful Blue 94 Silverado C1500 in for a Grey 09 GMC Sierra, Amtrak running mail trains complete with boxcars and AMTK or AMTZ marked Roadrailers, Wisconsin Central EMD SD45's on the point of manifest freights, trains full of black diamonds bound for the now defunct State Line Generating Plant with bright orange Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern SD 38-2's and their 645 prime movers screaming in notch 8 as they struggled to get moving after a long stop to line switches inside the plant.
Railfanning isn't what it once was and when I saw all this I wish I knew how to work a camera then. Most of the things I saw will never be seen or repeated again
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A BNSF Toaster passes by the then falling apart Phil Smitds. Once known for its fresh seafood and famous frog legs, the Empress, now Horseshoe, Casino killed it off. Not long after I took this photo, the building met the wrecking ball. Another memory captured on lens that grew up with was gone then
I started watching trains here at this spot when I was 3. I'm 26 now and I've been coming to the same spot for 23 years. I've seen the changes: my grandfather trading his beatuiful Blue 94 Silverado C1500 in for a Grey 09 GMC Sierra, Amtrak running mail trains complete with boxcars and AMTK or AMTZ marked Roadrailers, Wisconsin Central EMD SD45's on the point of manifest freights, trains full of black diamonds bound for the now defunct State Line Generating Plant with bright orange Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern SD 38-2's and their 645 prime movers screaming in notch 8 as they struggled to get moving after a long stop to line switches inside the plant.
Railfanning isn't what it once was and when I saw all this I wish I knew how to work a camera then. Most of the things I saw will never be seen or repeated again
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