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Excellent composition Arnold.
Great photo. Those were the days….
Thanks, guys. Years ago along the railroad there was fun to be had for photographers almost everywhere..
Very nice, Arnold. The Zorra station was attractive and a great trackside prop. The only props along the rails today are tall weeds, thickets of trees, dilapidated structures and code lines. Longing for the days of old.
looks like the masons used whatever brick they had on hand to build this structure.. red in the back and brown in the front, am I seeing this right?
The brick is not real. It’s similar to an asphalt shingle on a fiberboard sheathing. It was commonly used to cover old wood siding. One of the product names was “Insulbrick”. The colour differential would be from dust from the nearby quarry.
Great photo Arnold. Almost wouldn’t recognize it then, having seen it in the present.
By the way….got a shovel?
Ralph…everything around there used to be covered in grayish quarry dust. Probably the reason the “brick” looks darker on the back is the fact that wall is facing the NW, and wind/rain has ‘washed’ the wall somewhat compared to the rest of the building.
Thanks for the info guys, I am familiar with insulbrick. I labor for a brick crew, and things like that catch my eye.
I recall being in the station different times & it had beautiful brown & cream enamel oil stove(s?) & unusual lighting sconces. So far as I know, all those treasures ended up in the hole they bulldozed the building into. Something for archeologists to ponder a few centuries hence.
Also in this shot Arnold, the now gone “Ingersoll North branch” which I traversed a few times. The odd time on a weekend, you’d be on a mainline train like the pickup with a hot car for Ingersoll North & the poor brakeman (me) recalls riding that 4 miles on that car in the rain to spot it, while the train & tail end crew waited at Zorra.
Thank heavens modern Diesels don’t make horrible smoke like steam locomotives did!