The only places passenger rail is in half-decent shape in the US (which is
only quarter-decent, by European >standards) is in the "Northeast
Corridor" from Boston to Washington DC, around Chicago, and on the
California >coast.
Oh, I don't know about that.
Have you ever ridden on the Alaksa Railroad?
I've been on it numerous times and have appreciated their on time running
and the well maintained, clean stock. I've been told its the only state run
RR.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PESO: Union Station Grand Hall
Thanks, Brian.
Passenger railroads almost disappeared in the US with commercial aviation
and the interstate highway system in the 1950s and 1960s. Spending 18-24
hours on a train from St. Louis to New York lost its appeal when one could
fly there in 2-3 hours; and taking a train a couple of hours north to
Chicago could not compete with driving one's own car. So, by 1970 there
were only 3 trains a day through Union Station, and it was too expensive
to maintain for that amount of traffic.
The only places passenger rail is in half-decent shape in the US (which is
only quarter-decent, by European standards) is in the "Northeast Corridor"
from Boston to Washington DC, around Chicago, and on the California coast.
Rick
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Great image - wonderful architecture.
I'd love to see a photo of that hall back in its
heyday.
(How can a station that catered for 100,000 passengers
daily end up
being abandoned? Ending up as a shopping mall seems a sad
end but
better than demolition, I suppose.)
Cheers
Brian
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:28:47 -0800 (PST), "Rick
Womer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I left Denver last month and traveled to St. Louis,
where I had a day of
> shooting while my wife toiled.
>
> This is the Grand Hall of Union Station. The station
is a huge and
> glorious structure, built in the 1890s and once the
largest and busiest
> railroad station in the U.S. In the 1930s and 1940s
it served 400 trains
> and 100,000 passengers daily. Abandoned in the 1970s,
it was restored in
> the 1980s as hotels, convention center, and shopping
mall.
>
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317483&size=lg
>
> K10D, DA 10-17 fisheye, ISO 800, f/3.5 @ 1/20,
handheld, RAW via LR2.
>
> Rick
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