We have been really wanting to incorporate this great location into one of our sessions. I’m referring to the Arizona Railway Museum.

Never heard of it?

Neither had I. And had driven right past it no less than 4,213,879 times. The church we used to serve at, Cornerstone, met at a high school in their earlier days, and the museum was just a couple blocks away from the school.

So when one of our fellow photographer friends, Chris Metzger, pointed out this location with all the antique train cars, we’ve ever since been biting at the opportunity to use it. The tricky part is, the museum is only open from 12 noon to 4pm, only on Saturdays and Sundays, and not in the summer at all. For lighting, we normally start shooting at 4pm in the winter, but it just so happened that we needed to meet up at 3pm the day we shot the Vierkoetters. So we had an hour to hit up the museum and we’re super glad we did!

Chris, Jessica, and Corbin Vierkoetter are mutual friends with our friends the Fifes, and the Fifes were gracious enough to refer these wonderful folks to us. We hooked up at the quiet little museum on a beautiful overcast day and began to experiment with the fantastic amount of various train cars and colors inside the train yard. Little Corbin, ran around like a crazy man, and at times it was hard to corral his energy! But it helped in bringing out his great character. The little dude was even brave enough to go diving off the side of the trains…luckily Chris was there to catch him. We got to chatting about life, endeavors, mutual relationships, even the hip little dance studio that Jessica runs called The Dance Loft. She gets to teach little kiddos how to dance everyday and loves it…pretty sweet day job!

Soon enough though, the clock rolled over to 4pm and we had to vacate the rustic grounds of the Railway Museum, but to our joy we found a magnificent yellow field across the road and spent a short bit soaking in the fading light. Corbin ran and played. There was even some piggy-back chases.

Simple life captured.

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