Snacktime
Before a February evening departure at København H.
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Not from around here
My earliest memories of travel are of trips to Toronto. From our rural town, surrounded by trees and farms, we ventured east to visit family a few times a year. For four hours as we drove, I’d be on the edge of my seat, counting distance markers as the highway delivered us into Canada’s metropolis.
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København Blur
The afternoon rush in Copenhagen, inspired by MC Escher. “If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”
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All the way down
I’m really not a train guy. Despite all the images on this blog suggesting otherwise, I couldn’t tell you the first detail about locomotives or gauges, routes or liveries.
But in the gleaming – or dilapidated – vehicles, the frenetic stations and the detritus, I see stories. Of adventure. Of tragedy. Beginnings and endings. Speed and stasis. The machines that deliver us to the moments: the defining experiences of travel…
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2 Portraits
Amidst the morning commute at Copenhagen’s central station.
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Geometry Class
Crazy lines. Columns, grids, angles, lines — it’s all here in Madrid.
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Stay warm
The sound seems to carry farther on cold mornings. Sharp little snapping sounds as shoes click along the floor, the odd bit of salt underfoot.
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These empty halls
Sunday morning at an unknown station.
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Empty York
Speeding Saturday Selfie.
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Leaving York
A lone passenger at York University station. Empty trains, empty halls.
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Platform Portrait
Morning rush on the platform at Spadina subway station.
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Checking In
Checking in, new and old-school. Seen at Bloor Station.
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Passy Sortie
A late night train near the Eiffel Tower, from my brief visit to Paris in December.
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Platform Tickets
In an empty and decaying train station, just before the rain, visions of journeys past.
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Finch Hallway
From a trip to my old neighborhood.
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Luggage
One of the luggage windows at an abandoned railway station in Kisumu, Kenya. The last train departed in 2006, but locals say that service is on its way to being restored.
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Double Escalator
A quick shot going up an escalator, somewhere in the north part of the Paris Metro system.
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On the Railing
Early evening at the station in Nimes.
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Nimes Arches
Street-level view of the train station in Nimes, France as the tracks rumble overhead.
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Barbes Escalator and Stairs
A vintage feel.
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