RICHARD WEDDLETON Desire and All That Jazz, 11x15”, Watercolor
“It has been a very long time since I painted this picture,” says the artist, “so I no longer recall where I obtained the reference materials. It may have been from a photograph I took of a similar trolley in the impressive collection of the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. I would have later modified my drawing to correspond with the St. Charles Avenue streetcar named Desire. I chose watercolor to paint all my dry land transportation subjects because it dries quickly and allows me to capture many small details side by side. I also find I can make small corrections, up to a point, anyway. And I sometimes use gouache, and occasionally even acrylic, to achieve desired effects.“
RON HATCH Pond Lily, 16x20”, Acrylic
During the Great Depression, the Rock Island Southern, running between Rock Island, Monmouth, and Galesburg, Ill., operated on an “as needed” basis. As a result, the son of on-line customer Rowe Manufacturing’s owner used salvaged parts to build this speeder in his dad’s factory. He christened it, for reasons unknown, Pond Lily. The RIS even gave him a set of switch keys, and imposed two rules on him: 1) Line the switches back to normal when done, and 2) clear the tracks if and when a train approached. The railroad once borrowed the contraption when its maintenance car was out of service.
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