“Don't forget the passport.”

Spring [1] felt I might like to take pictures of the Opa-Locka City Hall [2]. She also felt it would be nice if we took the Tri-Rail [3] down to the Opa-Locka station, about a block away from the City Hall.

I almost didn't make it [4] but I parked at the Lake Worth Tri-Rail station and as I was walking (the parking lot is about a block away from the station itself) I heard the train pulling into the station. I started to run (boy, am I out of shape) but it turned out to be a maintenance train going through the station.

Spring had already bought my ticket and I had a few minutes to catch my breath before the actual Tri-Rail train pulled up.

[The Tri-Rail is a'coming] [5] [6] [Spring asking the security guard about the neighborhood (outlook not so good)] [7] [8] [Opa-Locka Tri-Rail station] [9] [10] [Platform 9 3/4] [11] [12] [Hmmm … a Batman villian must be nearby] [13] [14] [Watch out! Train coming through] [15] [16] [Bert's been overfeeding his pigeons] [17] [18] [Train still coming through] [19] [20]

But Spring has miscalculated the timing and was unaware that we would arrive at Opa-Locka after it got dark. And because the neighborhood of Opa-Locka is less than stellar [21], we decided to stick around the train station until we could head back north.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/

[2] http://www.pbase.com/airlinerphotos/image/3505941

[3] http://www.tri-rail.com/

[4] /boston/2006/12/17.1

[5] /boston/2006/12/17/thumb.pc170001.jpg

[6] /boston/2006/12/17/pc170001.jpg

[7] /boston/2006/12/17/thumb.pc170011.jpg

[8] /boston/2006/12/17/pc170011.jpg

[9] /boston/2006/12/17/thumb.pc170012.jpg

[10] /boston/2006/12/17/pc170012.jpg

[11] /boston/2006/12/17/thumb.pc170020.jpg

[12] /boston/2006/12/17/pc170020.jpg