Ever since I was young, I've always been fascinated with trains! I can remember being about 5 or 6, sitting in the upstairs window of my Grandmother's house for hours with my brother Joe, watching the trains on the nearby tracks going by! We of course had model trains.....mostly HO Scale, and a few N's. Eventually, Joe graduated into the bigger Lionel trains, which is what rounds the parents' Christmas Tree each year!I decided to visit Oakwoods Metro Park while I was out and about today, thinking maybe I would find a nice spot by the lake to shoot. As I was slowly driving up the 3 mile stretch from Willow Road, to the Oakwoods Nature Center, I came upon the old railroad tracks that cross the main road. I stopped on the tracks (they don't get used much, so no safety issues) and looked in both directions, and there was my shot! I figured what the heck, the lake will always be there, but the clouds in the distance looked very dramatic, and the sun was falling quickly, which meant that if I hurried, I could get a nice dark blue sky to go with the scene!
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