The 1020 is late today
by Jeff Folger
Title
The 1020 is late today
Artist
Jeff Folger
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This is one of my favorite finds, an abandoned train station in Newmarket New Hampshire. I haven't been back to see if it's still standing and at the time I was able to walk in and look around. There was an old iron safe in the main office with the door wide open and it was half through the floor to the ground below. Anything of value was long gone but I could still hear the clatter of a telegraph sending news down the line Maybe that is a typewriter going clickty-clack by someone else and a couple at the window asking about tickets to Omaha to visit their uncle. I loved rendering the building in the pencil sketch manner so that the age really came through. Now to get the full effect you need to cue up Johnny Cash and his Orange Blossom Special and think about the men and women who travelled thousands of miles along the iron rails. Also don't forget the men who put down all those rails that crisscross the country.
Here is a Youtube link to Johnny Cash and the Orange Blossom special. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhs5j7HN8wM
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April 1st, 2014
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