I don't know what to say. The sheer amount of luck I have had this past month has been astonishing...
Tonight I set out to capture a long exposure of the starry night sky (the first cloud-free night in nearly two weeks here in College Station). My roommate and I drove all along the outskirts of the city looking for a great shot, but after about an hour in the cold we decided to call it a night and head back. On the way home I was telling him how much I wanted to take an exposure of a train at night, but how it was nearly impossible since I never knew when and where the trains were going to be. Then this happened.
A lone freight train slowed to a stop just as we drove up next to it, as if handed to me on a silver platter. As I was setting up my tripod and camera to take the picture, I heard a train horn in the distance. Another freight train was coming from the opposite direction on the parallel track. I gathered myself as quickly as possible and captured this 71 second exposure of the two overlapping trains. My excitement when I saw the finished product was indescribable.
Not long after the passing train was gone, the first train gathered up and left as well. I stumbled upon a probably less than ten minute window of that train standing still, and an even less two minute window of the two trains overlapping. Wow. What a night.