We walk the lines so you don’t have to!
Benching
With the nearby JR Davis Union Pacific Yard in Roseville, BNSF traffic out of Stockton, and the Central Valley’s Agriculturally focused Fresno Sub, access to diverse lines of railcars for photographing is quite plentiful. We’ve procured wonderful spots for viewing, and with railroad scanners tuned to all the local Foreman, missing a line only happens when we sleep.
I love the sound of a moving train as much as anyone. Seeing a pack of reefers rumbling towards my lens is divine, but there’s something to the intimacy of walking the lines. The trains settled, their sheer mass at a fingers reach. The smell of rotting grains decaying below a leaking hopper. You can’t get that from afar, at 40 miles an hour as you panic into pan mode to avoid missing a burner or a dying relic. In a yard, a layup, a clearance line, wherever it may be, we walk the lines…so you don’t have to.
Walking the Lines
The Books
Each book is around 120 6x9 matte finish pages of raw freights, highlighting the usual suspects, the new phenoms, and the old brittle boys still holding on for a glimmer of nostalgia. You won’t find interviews or advertisements. Shameless self promotion? Maybe. But you’re guaranteed to feel motivated, a little jealous, and ready for more. Lucky for you, we have a continuous flow of trains at our disposal and the passion to document them for you, and for us, rages on. The books will only stop when you stop buying them. Well, stop for you, anyway. But know this, they won’t be available forever! Get em before we cut off printing. As of now there is no target range, but records will be kept and once we decide enough is enough, we will announce the total print run.