Matt Feldman Photography
Street-level view of the train station in Nimes, France as the tracks rumble overhead.
Today’s freight train explosion happened just a few kilometers from where I live. I didn’t hear or feel the blast, but those exact same tracks run along the end of my block and the train would have passed by me a few minutes later on its way south. So it got me thinking about trains.
I was in the line to visit the ship’s Moroccan immigration officers when I noticed the guy in the line beside me. He looked, well, Moroccan. And in his hand was a Canadian passport. After reading wild tales of hucksters and scam artists, I was keen to know if the ship’s currency exchange rate was decent.
The westbound platform of the Amtrak station in Harper’s Ferry, looking toward the Potomac River just after sunset.
A wall reminiscent of 8-bit graphics, in the Sheppard-Younge station.