Metal Wheel Stuff

I had fun photographing 'stuff' at the Steam Railroading Institute maintenance area.  In the old and new stuff, lots of interesting shapes, forms and contrasts.  There were so many targets of opportunity.
There were a number of older, naturally weathered cars that reside in the maintenance area.  Some of the cars were recognizable such as tankers and box cars.  Other cars were more of a single purpose maintenance vehicle with large pieces of machinery attached.
Other targets were lots of stores of spare and fabricated parts.  In those areas there were many shapes and colors.  Great stuff for 'artsy' images.
Hopefully we'll get a chance to go back at a different time of year when the trains are out of the shed and maybe some better light.  But for now, this excursion was an excellent time.

This is part of a wheel assembly of the next railroad project for the SRI.  When I entered the parking area I saw the bottom frame skeleton of a steam engine.  I was instantly fascinated.  Rust.  It was outdoors and it looked it.  Rust.  On the other side was this placard with the rest of the story.  So it is there for a reason.

This skeleton as it is now is just a mess of shapes, light and rust.  This was soooo coool.  Rust.

So the following is part of the (as you are looking at it) right side toward the front wheel.  Looks a bit odd, but this part of the wheel has the offset weight.  I wanted to get a number of seemingly unrelated shapes.  Did I mention, I dig the rust?

This is definitely out of my comfort zone.  Screams "Artsy"!