Short Freight Bench & Graff Walls (Nov.6th 2022)

            Went out today with one goal in mind.  Leave a copy of my book, sealed in a bag next to an awesome piece of graffiti, and then come home and post a photo of the piece and if anyone knew where this piece was, they could come out and grab a free copy of the book.

Planned on leaving it by a really cool MERS piece that I've been seeing for a few years now, ended up leaving it by a newer writers piece @she.bombs she's only been at it for a short while from what I understand, but she's doing awesome work and getting up.

Found a way to climb up and leave a sealed, in a bag copy up high enough that it would take a little work to find it. Cool.  On the way out, I planned on benching at one of my favorite spots for a few hours and then heading home.  

Got to my spot, got out my HAM radio to listen for trains, got out my camera, and within' a few minutes some dude is walking towards me.  I'm alone, and there's really nowhere I can go.  As he gets closer I say "Hey, how ya' doin'?"  Dude replies "I'm okay".  I turn a bit so that he can easily see that I'm armed, and then I notice that he's got a plastic bag in one hand, and a rock the size of a softball in the other hand.  He walks within' a couple feet of me, and once he's passed by 6 feet or so, looks back and says "It's ok to be hiking out here right?"  "Yep!" I say, and he walks off.

I hear, and then see a UP train coming, which means I need to grab my shit and head to the other trestle and catch it from the other side.  Lighting issues..  As I'm flicking this one, I duck down and look under the trestle and see that a BNSF freight is on the other set of tracks.  GRRR.  The UP ended up being like 25 cars.  As I run back to my spot I see an elusive (to me) ICHABOD piece roll by...  Missed it.

I catch the last 10-15 cars on the BNSF.  Within' 10 minutes or so, I see another sketchy dude walking around under the trestle I was just under, and he's walking around with some sort of stick.   

Seriously,  I don't need this.  I have bills, and I need to be at work on Monday. I left, and drove back home. I felt defeated.  In the end, I did what I set out to do, and that was give away a book.   ...But the freights....  They'll roll through again one day, or not.

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Taken on: November 6, 2022

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Camera: Fujifilm X-E3, f/2.8, 1/450 sec, 16mm (=24mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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ISO:	200
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