Joyful Woman Laughing Beside Union Pacific Freight Train
Saturday, April 14th, 2007 at 6:43:52 PM · 2007/desert_explorers/desert_explorers
A woman named Penelope stands on a concrete walkway beside an active Union Pacific freight train, laughing with delight as locomotive #4906 passes just feet away. The train is an impressive yellow UP diesel locomotive pulling a long string of autorack cars carrying vehicles. The setting appears to be a desert Southwest location, with dry sandy soil, sparse desert vegetation including what appears to be tamarisk or palo verde trees, and a partly cloudy sky. The photograph captures an exhilarating moment of human excitement in proximity to massive industrial machinery, with the scale of the locomotive dwarfing the woman in the foreground. The image was taken in April 2007 by photographer Dave Bullock using a wide-angle lens that emphasizes the train's imposing presence.
Chronologically Adjacent
