This is one of those shots that I planned like a battle. I passed this location on a train a couple of times, noticing its potential (yes, only potential because it doesn’t look like much on a cloudy day and through electrical wires). Some time later, I realized that in summer, the sun would be very close to the horizon in the evening and may give the riverbed a nice texture. And I should be able to stand on the railroad bridge and take pictures from there. I was hopeful that these bridges are designed in such a way that you wouldn’t have to decide between getting hit by the train and jumping 8 meters into shallow water when a train passes.
The next thing to do was to estimate the time. For several days, I would note the time when the sun was at - what I thought was - the right altitude. Finally, I decided that I had enough data and all I had to do was to wait for an evening with no overcast and enough free time to walk there and back.
In the end, I was right about the bridge: it had two “safe spots” for you to hide from the passing train, but I didn’t have to use them then. After I had arrived there, I had about 15 minutes window of opportunity to make the shot because the sun was about to sink into the clouds and I would’ve lost the light. But 15 minutes was enough.