Down at the Depot
North Beverly Depot Acrylic, 18x24”
©1980 Richard Symmes The depot in North Beverly, Mass., on the Eastern Route of the Boston & Maine Railroad, is now long gone, but the community is still a stop on the modern commuter rail system. This painting portrays an inbound morning train stopped at the depot. The artist remembers getting on the train there as a child. The depot was built in 1873 and destroyed by a fire in the 1970s.
Circus Arrives at Nashville Union Watercolor, 16x12” ©2013 James Mann The Louisville & Nashville constructed the Union Station in Nashville, Tenn., in the 1890s. At the time, the train shed was the longest single-span, gable roof structure in the United States. In 1996, both the building and the train shed were damaged by fire. The train shed was determined to be structurally unsound and demolished, but the headhouse has survived as the Union Station Hotel Nashville. The traditional circus elephant walk, from the Nashville railyard down Demonbreun Street to the “Big Top,” is gone too. In April 2016, all of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephants were retired and are living on a reserve in Florida.
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