Life On A Rail began in 2014 on a train watching trip with a friend who is an avid railroad enthusiast and expert model railroader and grew into a passion of mine. I was going through the photos and came across one where the train was really blurry, but everything else was in near perfect focus. I converted it to black and white for fun and it came out amazing. That first photo I framed and gave t
o my friend as a thank you gift. That was as far as it went until June 25, 2015 when I went back out to that same spot by myself and had a blast. In between trains (VERY carefully), I took a few shots of the tracks themselves. When I got home I sifted through the photos and converted two into black and white. When I saw how great they came out the hobby really began. A couple of weeks later I went home to Ohio and took some more shots at three different crossings. When I saw the one I took with the reflection of the track, I was officially hooked. To my friend who introduced me to this, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. You are amazing and you have given me the most wonderful gift without even knowing it. I will do everything I can to make you and the railroad community proud. To all of you, I hope you enjoy the photos. I'm not a professional photographer so they won't be perfect. To most people they are just photos of trains and railroad tracks, but for me, they bring me such a sense of pride and the deepest happiness.
