Steel Train Tapestries

The best Sublime album, the acoustic version, with Bradley Nowell ranting and all

This image is of an old locomotive that is on display at Roundhouse Park in Toronto. Central to the park is the old railway roundhouse, which has now been converted for other purposes. So why did I capture the image; well I was really taken by the juxtaposition of the old railway equipment and the very modern city behind.

My family worked for several generations building STEAM TRAINS. The huge factory made everything. Raw iron ingots and steel would go in at one end and after much blood , sweat and tears, a fully operational loco would emerge at the other end. GWR. Great Western Railway . or GODs WONDERFUL RAILWAY

Steel rails waiting and slumbering dreaming iron dreams and thinking heavy thoughts.

Roof waterfall and sky train track at Jewel Rain Vortex in Changi airport, Singapore. vertical

RAILWAY CROSSING AND DIVERGING RATHER THAN PARALLEL LINES CREATES INTERESTING AND LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES

What's Old Is New Again!

The old, red caboose sits in all its rustic glory along the abandoned tracks.

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A roof waterfall with passing sky trains at Jewel Rain Vortex in Changi airport, Singapore. 1

An old rusting vintage steam locomotive

The caboose carried a brakeman and a flagman. In the days before automatic air brakes, the engineer signaled the caboose with his whistle when he wanted to slow down or stop. The brakeman would then climb out and make his way forward, twisting the brake wheels atop the cars with a stout club. Another brakeman riding the engine would work his way toward the rear. Once the train was stopped, the flagman would descend from the caboose and walk back to a safe distance with lanterns, flags, and other warning devices to stop any approaching trains. In the 1880’s, the automatic air brake system, invented by George Westinghouse, eliminated the need for brakemen to manually set brakes. As I climbed aboard the old red caboose the brake wheel ca...

Rural Romania with the only steam powered logging railway in the world

Well I look over yonder across the plain, the big drive wheels are poundin on the ground, gonna get on board and I'll be homeward bound...."Steel Rail Blues," from the 1966 Gordon Lightfoot debut album.

Kyoto station

Locomotive blue sketch

Looking down the rail of the railroad.

n-dee s. Image no. 095 - 2016-08-25

The freight yard and furnaces of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co.'s iron works. Ensley, Alabama. 1906.

Graffiti on a wall at the Carrie Furnace.