When I step into our city’s local Railway Museum I feel like a child filled with awe around those shiny metal, old, black moving levers. There’s something about walking back into the dusty nostalgic scent of history. Those worn fabric seats feel regal somehow and command respect.
For the average non-train obsessed visitor, it’s mostly a simple collection of old cars and a few small pieces of retro/mid-century office furniture inside the museum’s indoor area. To the photographer, the weathered metal, rust, peeling paint, and vehicles that miraculously survived all those decades, it’s as if those trains roll on, unstoppable. Just like my Pentax 67 with its shiny metal and old, black moving levers!
(Pentax 67, Ilford 400, Kodak HC-110B, no push, no pull).
NOTE: The Southeastern Railway Museum in Atlanta has been around since 1970. There are over 90 pieces of rolling beauties that live here — steam locomotives, historic Pullman cars, cabooses — including a dining car used by the 32nd U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) on his trips to Warm Springs. There’s also a private car once used by President Harding.
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Time travel! Wonderful.
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