Approaching the station

A Sounder commuter is on its afternoon run from Seattle to Tacoma about to make its first stop at the Tukwila Station near the Southcenter Mall on a beautiful spring day in 2015.

Waiting in the sun...

A Sounder commuter train sits in the afternoon sun  at King Street Station waiting to depart on its run from Seattle to Tacoma on a beautiful spring day in 2015 led by an EMD F59PHI.

On the way home...

A Sound Transit commuter train is departing the Tukwila station on its way to Tacoma on a clear spring day in Seattle.

Next stop the airport...

A Metro Light Rail Train is departing the American Blvd station with its next stop at terminal 2 at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.

Is that enough horsepower?

A pair of Iowa Northern MP2000D locomotives have no shortage of horsepower pulling a pair of cars along Canadian National tracks in north Waterloo, Iowa. The locomotives have been in storage for more than 2 years due to their cost of operation but a locomotive shortage forced Iowa Northern to put them back in service.

But Google told me it was here!!!

The abandoned former Amtrak Midway station in St. Paul, Minnesota. When we were there back in June, 2018 google maps was still showing this as an active Amtrak station even though it had been closed for a while (it is no longer showing on google maps). As it turned out it was only a short distance from our wonderful AirBnB that we stayed at. There is also an interesting model railroad museum just to the south of this old station. It looks like either this building started deteriorating fast or Amtrak had not been taking care of it for some time.

Meet up at the baseball stadium

Two Metro light rail trains meet alongside the baseball stadium of the Minnesota Twins in Minneapolis. Currently both of Metro's light rail's terminate here but there is plans to extended both light rail routes beyond the stadium. The train in the right is about to depart for the Mall of America and the train on the left has just arrived from St. Paul.

Heading to the mall...

A Metro light rail train is just a couple of stops away from its final destination the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.

Your bike is ready...

A lineup of bikes at a Minneapolis light rail station.

Out in the snow

A Peoria Charter bus sits in the parking lot of the Crossroads Mall in Waterloo, Iowa as its passengers spend the night at a nearby hotel. This overnight stay may not have been scheduled as the weather had been very bad with many highways in the area being closed.

Passing by in a blur

A Metro light rail train in Minneapolis, Minnesota leaves a station near the University of Minnesota.

Coming into the Station

A Metro Green Line Light Rail train is stopping at the Fairview station on its way from St. Paul to Minneapolis.

They meet...

Two light rail trains meet in downtown Minneapolis. A green line train is almost done with its run from downtown St. Paul while a blue line train is heading toward the Mall of America.

Look at me...

1966 Ford Mustang Coupe on display at a car show in Charles City, Iowa.

Hauling the Goods...

A Canadian National freight train is traveling between Parkersburg and New Hartford, Iowa along Iowa Highway 57 which was US Highway 20.

Identity Crises

A BMW sits near a construction site with a Ford sunshade in Los Angeles.

Blasting through town

A freight train passes through Elkhart, Indiana.

Abandoned Rails

Streetcar tracks that once were used by Seattle's Waterfront Streetcar before a sculpture garden replaced its car house and the line was shut down.

Portland Streetcar at Portland State

Portland Streetcar at Portland State, a photo by Dornoff Photography on Flickr.

In my last posting I mentioned how it had been three years since I came to Portland for a conference that would lead to me actually moving here to Portland.

Here is another once of those photos that makes me think about that trip three years ago. The day after I arrived in Portland for the conference I had a free day so I planned to walk the city using walks created by Laura Foster in her books "Portland City Walks" and "Portland Hill Walks" both of which I highly recommend.

That day I walk to this very spot and took a picture of a streetcar approaching this very spot. Little did I know that I would become very familiar with this spot. Since a year ago June I have been attending Portland State and have had classes in the building to the right and left behind the streetcar. I have also spent time in the Park Blocks which are on either side of the streetcar.

Just goes to show that sometimes a picture is can be more than just a picture of something but can have meaning and possibly for things we don't think of when we take the picture.

2010 Toyota Camry

2010 Toyota Camry, a photo by Dornoff Photography on Flickr.

While much of my personal photography involves transportation, surprising little of it actually involves automobiles.

However, this past May when I was in Portland looking for an apartment we rented a car and decided to spend a couple of days on the coast where we used to live.

I thought this would be a perfect time to get some great auto pictures to practice with and find one to add to my portfolio.

Here is our rental car relaxing near Oceanside, Oregon.

What do you think?