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I'll post another one here. This is one of my favorite shots of all time, but I don't really know why. This is a scan from a print, as the original negative apparently said hello to oblivion. 
This is an (attempted) duotone from a surviving print.
This is the last remaining section of the Third Avenue El. I really didn't have any purpose or reason for this shot. I was waiting for the train and saw the scene and took it. It was a Sunday, early 1971. I was in my teens. My first real camera, and my original Mamiya SD.
Trains, to me, have always represented freedom and mobility. To go places, whether it's across town or across the country. To explore new ground or visit familiar turf.
(I'm not really into cars.)
This is an (attempted) duotone from a surviving print.This is the last remaining section of the Third Avenue El. I really didn't have any purpose or reason for this shot. I was waiting for the train and saw the scene and took it. It was a Sunday, early 1971. I was in my teens. My first real camera, and my original Mamiya SD.
Trains, to me, have always represented freedom and mobility. To go places, whether it's across town or across the country. To explore new ground or visit familiar turf.
(I'm not really into cars.)
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Here's a couple that "fit"
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That's the promotional train for the (relatively) new Pink Line in Chicago. Not really a new line, but a new route over existing tracks.
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Sorry to hear that. What I've seen in your Gallery is pretty interesting from a historical perspective, at the very least (to this New Yorker, anyway).dmr said:I'll post another one here. This is one of my favorite shots of all time, but I don't really know why. This is a scan from a print, as the original negative apparently said hello to oblivion.
I missed photographing the El. Much as I was "into" things on rails, I didn;t take up the camera even semi-seriously until just a few years after you did. By then, too late.
Hear, hear. Long my favorite mode of travel, besides my bicycles.
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(Image: "Accidental Archeology", 2000. Can anyone spot a piece of famous grafitti?)
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Indeed. Boxter?geoabbott said:
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Bingo.DMG said:
What's funny is that the station (8th Street on the N/R line in lower Manhattan) was being totally renovated at the time (looks beautiful now), and this was a section that had been covered up years before in a makeshift operation. Tearing that facade away, we had this...and there's Taki, after all these years (decades, really).
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