While Kathy & I were in Wisconsin visiting our friends Jeff & Mary Pat, Jeff, his son Luca and I left the ladies at home and headed to the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. The museum boasts a huge collection of rolling stock of all varieties, from horse-drawn cars to vintage steam locomotives to more modern diesel-electric engines. It was a great place to make photographs, and while I took some photographs of entire engines and cars, it was the the little details that really appealed to me – in this case what I’ve come to refer to generically as “Rust and Peeling Paint.” It is the details that are “about” a place, taken “at” at place that I love to photograph.
We spent several hours there and had a chance to take a ride on a vintage electric “Interurban” train car (much like a trolley but larger and faster). It’s the kind of place where you can find something new with as much time as you have. A few hours was plenty for us, but it wouldn’t be a bad place to return to some time in the future.
It was a super-fun day out, that’s for sure. You’re way ahead of me on doing post on your (great) images – mine are still on the card in the camera. 🙂
I’m pretty sure I have a picture of you taking the last picture in this post.
Hi Jeff. Yes, it was a fun day and the kind of photographic adventure I don’t take enough time to do. I ordinarily would not have processed so many photos but I had a few hours to kill on a recent morning, so what else to do? 🙂 You have just a few more things going on (!) and processing photos isn’t exactly your top priority!
I also have a photo of you that I took right near the end and a few of you and Luca on the train. I’ll send them along!
Wonderful series, Tom. I think you captured the details very well. You see what others will miss. And, yes, lots of rust and peeling paint.
That place was details on steroids, that’s for sure! I could spend an hour on just one engine if I had the time and wanted to get dirty! 😉