Amazing 9/11 Before and After Photos

[FREYMAX 3D]

I figured I would share these with everyone today, on the 11th anniversary of 9/11...

In June of 2001, I traveled to New York City for a week-long training class for work. I rode the Amtrak Train from Lancaster to NYC, and on the ride up through northern New Jersey, I happened to snap a photo of the distant New York City skyline with my camera through the train window...





My coworker also had a training class in New York scheduled for later that year, in September. Little did he realize his trip would be just a few days after the 9/11 tragedy. After that fateful day, but before he left for his trip, I had shown him the photos I took during my trip, including the one of the skyline from the train window. He was also riding the Amtrak train to the city, so I told him to try to get a similar skyline photo as an "after" picture, to show what the skyline now looked like without the twin towers. On the train a few days later, he actually remembered my request and snapped a single photo on the way up past the city...

When he returned from his trip and showed me the photos he took, I noticed his skyline shot he had taken, and recognized something familiar about it. I dug out my photos I had taken 3 months earlier, and pulled out my skyline photo. When we compared the two shots, our jaws just dropped - the foreground buildings in the two photos were identical, and not only that, they were positioned in the same perspective with the background structures - My coworker had unknowingly snapped his single skyline shot at the EXACT SAME SPOT on the tracks as I had taken my photo, in an Amtrak train traveling 90 miles per hour - that spot on the tracks would have flown by in just an instant, and he had caught it for a second time on film...