Driving home from work, I was startled by a small plume of black smoke rising from what looked like the Boulevard Park area - somewhere in the northern streets, toward midtown.

Imagine my suprise when I came inside, flipped on the news, and saw a raging inferno consuming an elevated, heavy-timber constructed train tressel out by Cal Expo. In the time it took me to park my car and enter my house, the fire spread to the entire structure - it is now snarling traffic on 80, spreading smoke across the sky, and causing even midtown drivers, according to KCRA, to stop and wonder at the sky.

Nutty.

Guess I’ll go out and take some photos. (In Midtown, not at the scene, duh.)