Took this on April 7th - before back lit had become an item

[Mira]

Small Town American Train Station - 2011

[Callalily]

1. Oh Mira . . . this is such a great photo.

Please don't take offense, but if I had seen this scene, I too would have been snapping my camera like crazy.

I can feel the loneliness, the isolation, the coldness. Oh gosh, and I truly like the perspective and the shadows! It just SCREAMS!

[Mira]

2. I got three more for you - just because i was so honored by your response. You

would have, just like me, gone mad taking photos too. It could be used as a location for old time movies, or a place to walk around shaking your head over America not having high speed train service for its people.

I chose these carrying on the theme of the back lit one you liked. The inside of the waiting room, and the single set of stairs going down to the tracks that gets chain locked when the afternoon train has left.

[Callalily]

4. Thanks for posting these Mira . . .

they are wonderful! The waiting room does indeed look like a scene from an old movie and the chained stairwell . . . not only is that a great angle but the chains are screaming, "stay out"!

[Mira]

5. It was an adventure. Considering

the hustle and bustle of a European train station this was a study in sad frustration. I'm choosing to show some more, because I can and heaven knows I have them.

[juxtaposed]

3. i like it,, as the morning passed the shadows contracted

[alfredo]

6. Love that image. I like the hint of blue. Of course that could

be my monitor.

[Mira]

8. I think, Alfredo, the blue crept in with my sliders in Picasa. I converted this one

from color. I'm really pleased you like it. Thanks!

[alfredo]

10. It's really sharp and clear. You still using that used lens

you bought a few months back? I remember how good it looked.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. I like it. Something about the mixture of B&W, the emptiness and...

a sense of waiting for sitters is how it strikes me. Maybe waiting for the day to begin.

[Mira]

9. Thanks Richard, I'm pleased you like it, but to me the sadness is a lot vaster

than what you are seeing. I've tried to say it, and I can't just keep posting photos to prove my feelings.

The fact that an American train station has padlocks on the one gate leading down to the 2 rails - that there are not only no sitters to come, but that there rarely are enough sitters to occupy a fragment of the seats available - just simply makes me heartsick for what could be.

People don't even know of this paltry alternative they have, a train that comes through once in the afternoon and has just a very few riders, and not even any coffee in the waiting room.

We are so sadly disadvantaged to only have air travel, and private cars, Greyhound and a few rail lines.
Which is why we go to great lengths to keep gas prices down and fight wars for oil, so our country does not go bust with people having no jobs and no alternatives.

Sorry. I got my string pulled. The train station woes get to me.