Without knowing where it would lead, I started railroad photography in the early 1960s using a Kodak 620 twin lens reflex camera and some of my subjects were of my model railroad and of Edaville Railroad in South Carver, MA. I bought my first SLR – a Minolta SRT101 in 1969 and spent time photographing landscapes, cities [Boston] and rock & roll concerts – using slides and also processing my own black & white negatives. I took many photography courses in college – black & white film. I moved to Cape Cod full time in August 1973 and did a lot of scenic photography there while working for a bank. I actually was granted yearly vacation time so in 1977 I wanted to visit San Francisco and see friends in Colorado. I took Amtrak across the country and back – the least expensive way for me to travel at the time. That is when I got hooked on railroads and photographing trains and ‘getting mileage’. I have since ridden trains in all 50 states and most of Canada. Through the wonderful world of mergers, I lost my job at the bank – I was on the verge of selling pencils on street corners when the owner of my local photo shop offered me a job working in his one hour film processing lab at the store [Cape Cod Photo & Art Supply]. I spent the next 21 1/2 years working there processing and printing thousands of rolls of film.  I was late getting into digital because I could print my own film the way I wanted it and at a discount. Almost every vacation I took during those years was railroad related in some way. By this time I had also switched to Canon equipment. My digital time arrived when I joined the Cape Cod Art Association Camera Club in 2008 and took many digital courses. Along with riding trains, I have met many railroad photographers and learned about attending special charters / workshops where the prime subject has been steam locomotives. I now use Sony Mirrorless cameras although I still have and use my Canon 7D Mark II DSLR. Since moving to Sun City and joining the photo club, I have been forced to do a lot of bird imaging, but I still get in some time trackside to photograph freight and passenger trains.