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Railroad departure yard at dusk with light trails – Vintage Wall Art

Railroad departure yard at dusk with light trails — historic image
Railroad departure yard at dusk with light trails. 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.)

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Step back in time with Railroad departure yard at dusk with light trails, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Railroad departure yard at dusk with light trails

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Long exposures at dusk turned this railroad departure yard into a field of streaking light. The record gives no photographer or exact date, so the picture's specifics are best read from what it shows: the trails of locomotive headlamps and signal lamps drawn across the tracks as the camera held its shutter open. Departure yards were where freight trains were assembled and sent out, and their evening activity, with switch lamps and moving engines, made them a natural subject for photographers testing slow exposures. The result records both the busy rhythm of rail work and the way motion blurs into light once the sun has set.

Original scan6,132 × 7,900 px · prints to 20 × 26 in at 300 dpi
Reference1a34651u View in a departure yard a

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