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Rural road with railroad crossing signs and mountains – Antique Print

Rural road with railroad crossing signs and mountains — historic image
Rural road with railroad crossing signs and mountains. Historic image from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

This rare historic image captures Rural road with railroad crossing signs and mountains in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Rural road with railroad crossing signs and mountains

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Rising behind a rural road and a set of railroad crossing signs, the mountains in this view give the scene its sense of distance and isolation. Crossings like this one, where a dirt or gravel lane met a line of track, were once common across the country, and the signs marking them show how much of rural life was shaped by the railroad. Picture-makers of the early twentieth century often placed such crossings in the landscape to show how rail and road ran side by side through open country. The record for this picture is brief, so its exact location and date remain unknown, but its composition invites attention to the quiet meeting point of road, rail, and terrain.

Original scan4,264 × 3,000 px · prints to 14 × 10 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a33813u railroad crossing skyline

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