As I’m going down Interstate 80 I see one of those great American sights – a train with two locomotives and about 100 freight cars. I quickly pass by the train and get up the road five or six miles and find an exit and am able to position myself pretty close to the tracks to get some pictures. I’m shooting my photos with the compact Sony S500, and wish I had taken the time to unload the Nikon D100 and all the stuff that goes with that… the S500 will have to do (it’s a great camera). As the train comes around the bend, the engineer sees me and gets on the train whistle – it was cool. My friend Tom – a certifiable train nut would have enjoyed it. The engineer let the whistle go a few times and then really laid it on – it was a long, piercing, soulful sound. You had to be there – but it was very cool.