For me, some of the most intriguing sights and sounds of summer can be found travelling the 1:05 pm train from Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn to Sayville, Long Island. 



The train runs express most of the way to the town of Babylon. As the train whooshes past the local stops in between, the passengers waiting for local trains on those platforms rush by the train windows in a blur.



Sometimes I wonder what I might be missing within these blurs, and I decided to take some pictures to get a glimpse of life and the to reactions to the speeding train as it passes the otherwise tranquil platforms.



The photographs here are presented in geographic order from west to east, according to the sequence of stations along the Babylon Branch Line. 

Over several trips I photographed the same stations at the almost exact same time of day, but, of course, on different days. 

Sketches of life are seen on those same familiar stages.



The  train often moved at such a high speed that the images I took were only slightly less blurry than if one were watching them in the moment.  On other days, the train slowed enough for me to more clearly capture the everyday activities of the subjects.  Fast or slow, these images always make me wonder what stories might lie behind them.