#train lines

[krumpkin]

Brocken Railway, Germany 🇩🇪

[gldhr]

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[stone-cold-groove]

Southern Pacific vintage matchbook cover.

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[lucystea]

12/05/21

My new room is starting to look like a room, I am currently on the last strech of the year so lots of coffee and lots of visits to the library. I also went to film a small project in an abandoned train station which was very fun. I am finishing Uni in only a couple of weeks and I am not emotionally ready for it.

Lucy.

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday, Part 2

On this date, October 4, the long-distance passenger train service Orient Express made its first run in 1883. To commemorate this milestone, we present illustrations from the first edition of American author John Dos Passos’s travel memoir Orient Express, published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1927, with eight illustrations based on original paintings by the author.

In the second half of 1921, Dos Passos left his friend the poet E. E. Cummings in Paris to take the Orient Express bound for the Middle East, with its terminus at the time in Istanbul. From Turkey he ventured to the Balkans, then from Georgia and Armenia went down to Persia and Iraq, and from its capital, Baghdad, he took thirty-nine days to travel the desert that extends to Damascus in a large camel caravan of which he was the only western passenger. His travels extended as far as Morocco. That experience, possibly among the most intense of the writer's life, was collected in different newspapers and magazines, until it was finally published in its entirety in this 1927 publication. 

All the while, he documented his travels in paintings. He had always drawn and painted, but took some formal lessons after his return from the Middle East. Although he participated in exhibitions and continued to paint and illustrate for the rest of his life, he was not recognized as a major artist, but his body of work was well respected, and he developed a distinctive style that shows influences from Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, and Cubism. The paintings from top to bottom are:

1.) Frontispiece: Chleuh 2.) Teheran: The Bath of the Lion 3.) Mogador 4.) Traintime: Beni Ounif 5.) Teahouse: Teheran 6.) Trebizond 7.) The Golden Horn 8.) Baghdad: The Bazaars That Burned

View our other Milestone Monday posts.

[yorksnapshots]

Waiting for a Train.