Believe it or not, Huntsville has more than just rockets and the military industry complex. It’s hard to walk around downtown and not stumble upon art painted on the sides of buildings or lining an alleyway.
I spilled coffee on my white t-shirt mere moments before realizing my camera battery compartment was an empty void. Not the best way to begin the day, and I would be lying if I said I didn’t consider heading home to sit on the couch and play Breath of the Wild for the next eight hours. But I don’t get wide-open days off like this often, and I wasn’t going to let it go to waste over a false-start.
So I slumped back home, grabbed the battery off the charge, drove back downtown, paid the parking meter for a second time, and started down the city blocks with no distinct endpoint in mind.
I made my way through Big Spring Park, took a break in the shade with a few dozen of the ducks who call the park home, and continued to wander back out to the edges of downtown.
Trains host a lot of art tagged along the unofficial canvases of their cars. But the locomotive above—HMCR 8527, in its sharp maroon and gold colors—has caught my eye enough times driving past that it deserves its own photograph here. The 8527 originally hails from the Colorado-based “San Luis & Rio Grande” rail company and is now in active use for the Huntsville Madison County Railway Authority.
…and then I went home and played Breath of the Wild for just a few hours.
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