K-Town

This is a picture I took last year for Kewanee, Illinois, sesquicentennial (150 years) birthday. I entered it in a contest at that time, for the town celebration and won people's choice and 1st place for photography. I wasn't a member of dA then, and actually kinda forgot about it. So now I'll post it in honor of Kewanee's li'l sister town, Neponset, Illinois, that is celebrating its 150 this year. For those of you that actually wanna know, Kewanee is about three hours west of Chicago, 15 min. south of Interstate 80, 1 hour southeast of the Quad Cities (Illinois/Iowa) and 1 hour northwest of Peoria, Illinois. Neponset is about 10 min. east of Kewanee.

As I wrote for the original caption for the contest, Kewanee was and is a train town, built up around the railroad for the prosperity it would bring in the early times. It is because of the railroad that Kewanee exists today in it's present form and isn't called Wethersfield (its symbiotic neighbor to the south). Neponset, being a year younger than Kewanee, is also a train town, but it stayed MUCH smaller than Kewanee ever did. The sign in the photo is the sign telling the conductor which town he is entering. What I never did understand, however, is that the tracks are going off to the west, and the trains that approach that sign are coming from the east. So I don't really know what the east part is for, it's not like there's an East Kewanee like East St. Louis. *shrugs* If anyone knows more about trains than me (and that'd be alot of people) and knows what that sign totally means, I'm open to knowledge.

As for the category, I did sepia tone this and over sharpen it in Photoshop, but that was the only effects I used, so I mulled between digi-photo and photo, and just said aw srew it I'll post it here.