Railway tracks running through a rocky, wooded cutting – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Railway tracks running through a rocky, wooded cutting, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Railway tracks running through a rocky, wooded cutting
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Cut through rock and tangled woods, the tracks in this view disappear around a bend, a reminder of how much blasting and hand labor went into laying a line through hilly country. Railroad cuttings like this one were among the hardest parts of a 19th-century line, since engineers had to remove tons of stone by hand and black powder before a single rail could be set. Pictures of such passages were popular in America during the late 1800s, when the railroad stood for progress and the wild landscape it crossed was still close at hand. The scene shows the rail line as both a feat of engineering and a path cutting into an untouched wilderness.
| Original scan | 2,816 × 2,112 px · prints to 9 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 2588739485_81337f837c_o |
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