In 2000 or 2001, I was out skateboarding with a friend. We drove near the railroad tracks, and saw a train was going by really slowly. So, we stopped and got out and I ran up closer and started taking pictures of it. A throw-up on a hopper by an online and real-life pen-pal of mine came up. It was exciting to see a freight by someone I knew from a different state. The train stopped. I looked down the tracks, and said, “Holy sh*t!”, One of the train cars was dangling off the tracks like a toy train. I told my friend what had happened and we drove further down, and parked the car. We walked the line and took photos, although he forgot his camera and was bummed. Up ahead we could see someone walking towards us. It was a railroad worker, he has an older black guy wearing an old school conductor hat. He told us that if we needed to cross over the line, we should do it here, because the auto-carrier cars didn’t have platforms on them, and that the train was going to be there for a long time. We did what he said and walked back. Later on, a crane removed the derailed hopper and set it on its side next to the tracks, where it sat for a long time. These are some of the pictures I took that day. This is one of the few Braze pieces I’ve ever caught.

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