by terranovabay
A relic of the old railroad running right up along the beach to Launch Pads 39A & B dates back to the Apollo days at Kennedy Space Center when the 20th Century journey to the Moon got an assist from a 19th Century innovation.
Categories: Space Age Bulletins • Tags: Apollo Program, Kennedy Space Center, Moon, railroad
by terranovabay
For those who hate black and white, presented here is the colorized version of Railroad Earth. Click to view the original.
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Beat, Florida, Fort Pierce, Jack Kerouac, railroad, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
The great southern landscape, complete with railroad tracks.
Categories: Eccentricities • Tags: Landscape, railroad, Southern
by terranovabay
Freight train crossing during rain storm | From the B/W negative archive.
Categories: Darkroom Photography • Tags: Freight Train, railroad, rain
by terranovabay
Railroad crossing scenic — east coast Florida.
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Florida, Indian River County, railroad, Train
by terranovabay
Jack Kerouac’s fondness for the railroad led him to include many references to riding freight trains in his writings. One of his most poignant is the Beat prose poem October in the Railroad Earth. Whether working on the railroad or looking to hitch a ride, looking over the rail yards with the Fort Pierce skyline in the background evokes some of the wanderlust in Kerouac’s writings that stretched from small-town USA to cover the entire country.
Categories: Night Gallery • Tags: Beat, Florida, Fort Pierce, Jack Kerouac, railroad, St. Lucie County
by terranovabay
From the archives: Something about the railroad has me thinking about R.E.M.. Taken with a pocket camera from a moving car while going over an overpass just west of Lake Wales
Categories: Scenery • Tags: Driver 8, Florida, Lake Wales, locomotive, R.E.M., railroad, train tracks, trains, water tower
