The Lonesome Goodbye


Oil, 24x36”, ©2004 Shayne Stoakes This work illustrates one of the timeless, often life-altering moments associated with travel by train, the poignant loneliness of a departure. By stripping the scene of all extraneous visuals, we are forced to focus on the abandoned platform and the departing train — sleek and sterile as it is. These are no doubt the very sensations going through the young woman’s mind. Whether it’s a departing lover, or a son going off to war, she is left only with “the lonesome goodbye.”


Cheyenne Relay Oil and Acrylic, 30x40”, ©2000 Marc Desobeau It’s train time in Cheyenne, Wyo. The train on stage is the flamboyant Forty-Niner. This first-class train ran between Oakland and Chicago in the late 1930s and was jointly operated by the Southern Pacific, Chicago & North Western, and Union Pacific. Union Pacific employed a Mountain-type locomotive on the rugged Western part of its railroad and a Pacific-type on the more level Eastern portion. Cheyenne is where the two engines exchanged duties, referred to as a “power relay.”


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