JustJill Loc: Iowa

Great photos!
No clue about the song. But the UP was part of the first transcontinental railroad.

wapiti Loc: round rock, texas

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Nice pair.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Your perspective in image #1 is compelling and harkens back to the days of Jimmie Rogers and Woody Guthrie and other musical "rail riders." Not sure about #2...

Elias Amador

I Was Young When I Left Home
Bob Dylan

I was young when I left home
An' I been out ramblin' 'round
An' I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home, Lord, to my home
An' I never wrote a letter to my home

It was just the other day
I was bringin' home my pay
When I met an' old friend I used to know
Said, your mother is dead an' gone
Every sisters all gone wrong
An' your daddy needs you home right away

I have a shirt on my back
Not a penny on my name
But I can't go home this way
This way, Lord, Lord, Lord
An' I can't go home this way

If you miss train, I'm on
Count the days, I'm gone
You'll hear that whistle blow hundred miles
Hundred miles, honey baby, Lord, Lord, Lord
An' you'll hear that whistle blow hundred mile
I've playin' on a track, ma would come an' woop me back
On 'em trusses down by Ol' Jim McKay's

When I pay the debt I owe to the commissary store
I will pawn my watch an' chain an' go home
Go home, Lord, Lord, Lord
I will pawn my watch an' chain an' go home
Used to tell my ma sometimes
When I see them ridin' blind

Gonna make me home out in the wind
In the wind, Lord, in the wind
Make me home out in the wind
I don't like it in the wind
I wanna back home again
But I can't go home this way
This way, Lord, Lord, Lord
An' I can't go home this way

I was young when I left home
An' I been out ramblin' 'round
An' I never wrote a letter to my home
To my home, Lord, Lord, Lord
An' I never wrote a letter to my home

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Bob Dylan
I Was Young When I Left Home lyrics © Special Rider Music

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

Excellent perspective and quality.

bnsf

Nice SHOT!!!!!

One Rude Dawg Loc: Athol, ID

Yep, big money, only did it once. Back then in Fairbanks things were scarce, we got 5 cents for a regular pop bottle and 25 cents for a big one. Back in the states at the time you got 2 cents for a small one and 5 cents for a big one. We were into serious bottle hunting back then. Ahh those were great summer days.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Much of what I shoot arises as an inevitable result of a mix and flow of the ever-changing contexts that attend -- among other momentarily contributing factors-- the who, when, where and/or why a particular perspective (or camera placement) had been chosen. That you've associated image #1 as you have --to a vague but nonetheless concrete concept of "back to the days of..."-- you've provided a kind of validity from your viewer's point of view.
And that is quite sufficient.

Image #2 seems to be an entirely other matter, though, since the 'sufficient condition' of a [your] viewer's view of that image has been left unassigned, so it may be that my [the shooter/maker/poster] view becomes a 'necessary condition' of assistance, however unnecessary that may ultimately be.

Image #1 was pre-planned. I knew I was going to shoot it well in advance. Image #2 was not planned; I had no idea the train would arrive while I was setting up and shooting the shots (different lenses, multiple exposures intended for focus-stacking, etc.) while 'the scene' was at its best (direction and quality of light on the tracks, the glowing cottonwood tree, and the red-purplish wall of cliff face in the shade beyond). Thankfully, I'd finished making the couple of dozen exposures I figured I'd need some moments before I'd become aware that, even though it was around a bend and out of sight, the train was in fact coming, so there was no problem in me removing myself and my kit from the tracks/danger sufficiently far in advance. Those were the 'mechanics', but the mechanics do not describe the aesthetics.

Many years ago, I did a 'critical' review of work I'd done up to that point. Among the various commonalities that inevitably arose, I saw that what I most produced/portrayed (via camera or via paint or pen or etc.) was not object based, per se, but was instead theme or idea based. More specifically, a great deal of what I shot/painted/wrote/etc. had to do with the juxtaposing --the object placement, side to side or near to far, depending-- of sometimes like, but more typically, unlike 'things' (that at their most basic, could be thought of as 'living' things -vs- 'non-living' things). Those, within the context of ordinary reality --the actual world, or place, where those objects reside-- and the relationships those 'things' had between one another were what I found I was often seeking to convey. So it is with Image #2: an apparently non-obvious (unless one settles only on what is present in the image and leaves out the post-factual considerations like 'Jimmy Rogers' or 'harkens back to...' that are not) relationship of sorts --a conflict, generally speaking-- that becomes spatially --and thematically-- established.

Which may probably not be useful for anyone to "appreciate" either image, and is likely uninteresting to anyone but me.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Very good set, Jim.

John Hicks Loc: Sible Hedinham North Essex England

Going on to the tracks is always dangerous, here in the UK every now and again graffiti artists get killed by running across live tracks and hit by a train they never saw.
Personally I think what they do to wagons and coaches is horrendous and some lose their lives just to spray paint it does not make sense

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Nice.

Flying Three Loc: Berthoud, CO

Bob Dylan: I Was Young When I Left Home

Susan yamakawa

Great shots ! I remember when my brother carved lady liberty head on the dime- t made a wonderful charm.