Duckunder

The pre-ship canal GN main, now Ballard Terminal trackage, ducks under the BNSF mainline near the locks.

Image from May 12, 2010. It took a while to grow on me.

Seaview

One of my favorite view spots is on Seaview Avenue Northwest, across from the new crossovers.

Today I had no sooner parked and opened my book when I heard a suspicious sound approaching.

Not only was it a train, but it was a rarity: a train of company business equipment, either inspecting or in transit.

This is a better place for watching than for photographing, especially to get more than just the locomotive(s).

So I went up the hill for a full-train shot. Hazy through the rain, but again, it is a favorite spot for watching, not photographing.

Away

Beach

Rocks

Builder

Once or twice a week I go to the Richmond Beach Library, and then down the hill to sit by the railroad tracks for a while. Sometimes I see a train, but mostly I don't react quickly enough to take a picture. Today the camera was already out and sitting on the console, and I had just enough warning to open the car door and make a snap shot through the gap next to windshield pillar. Had to be straightened & cropped, so the result is just a snapshot, but it does prove that trains still go by.

Sounder

Many mornings I have the objective of trying to get down to the beach in time to watch a Sounder or two go by. Sometimes it happens, but not often enough, and when it does, I don't often get pictures.

I get down in the evening even less often, but did today.

I wasn't in position to get the image I might have wanted but decided to take a shot anyway. And with the light not being what I wanted, I thought it was a great opportunity to play with conversion to black & white.

I think it turned out better than the color version, below. The color has been tweaked to make it look more like Spring & less like Autumn. My monitor is so bad that I'm not sure how the results will look to someone with a good monitor. But then you never know how the colors will look to someone with a lousy (or badly adjusted) monitor, so there you are.