Thursday, March 24, 2011

Retro




Not many people travel extensively by train anymore. As a result, train stations like ours in Berlin CT, are certainly dated. Ours is somewhat active, as it's on the corridor from New Haven to Boston, and from Springfield and Hartford to New York. Even so, it is in sad disrepair.

365/2011

14 comments:

  1. very nice - you really captured the feeling that this station is frozen in time

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  2. Oh I love the processing on this!!!

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  3. Your photo shows off this station's character, love the vignette too.

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  4. I take it this isn't a staffed station, and the ticket machines substitute for a clerk? Nonetheless, at least it is active and it has a clock with hands!

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  5. what you tell sounds something familiar to me, but what you show is much more clean and neat as it would be here in our district.

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  6. Cool shot, Bobbie. Our city's main railway station is "vintage" 1960s - built when it was decided the hub no longer needed to be smack dab in the center of town but in the 'burbs. They did at least keep the wonderful old Beaux-Arts building intact and it is now used as a conference center.

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  7. We'd love to get direct rail service into Chicago (we are only about 80 miles away). Politicians keep talking, but...

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  8. Love the sepia and vignette on this image.

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  9. I have never traveled by train, but would like to some day! I love the processing - it really adds to the retro theme!

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  10. There actually is a Real Guy behind the cage! The station is still staffed on weekdays. He came out to board our daughter on the train. In 1999, my husband and I walked down to the station, hauling our bags, boarded a train here in Connecticut, and rode the trains out to Sacramento and then back to Boston.

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  11. Great glimpse into the past and the presesnt!

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  12. A fine shot. That curved woodwork is very cool. I think train stations keep part of the life they have seen go by.

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  13. Neat retro station...wish we had train travel available...but you'd have to hop a freight train around here or drive quite a distance to board one.

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  14. Stunning shot! Well taken and brilliantly processed.

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