Train - Repair - Danger from above 1943 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
Train - Repair - Danger from above 1943 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1943
Original Title: An engine being carried to be wheeled.
Location: 777 1st St SW, Albuquerque, NM
Imagine how terrible it would be if a cable broke? No one wearing a hardhat... not that it would have mattered any.
Working here, you had to get used to the fact that you might have a 150 tons of metal going over your head. It was one of the things that you first noticed when you got a job here as a teen.
This is the locomotive repair facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, they fixed around 40 locomotives a month here. They were around for about 70 years, opening in 1910, closing in 1980. Today the building is still empty but they use it in movies and as a farmers market.
In the past trains were not standardized, each was custom. And because of that each person had to be a craftsman and build the parts custom. Many of the trains pictured here are from 1903.
I chose colors that were browns and grey's. The colors of rusted trains. The gantry is red today, I assume they didn't change them out. The original was kind of smokey, and faded. I wanted it to have more contrast so it would stand out better, yet keep some of the atmosphere in the background.
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September 9th, 2018
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