I think trains are cool.(And train graffiti is really cool, although sadly, my camera couldn't pick up the artwork from these fast moving cars.) I love traveling by train as is makes the trip itself an actual journey, rather than simply a way to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. When I have to go to New York City, I hop a train just over the Hudson from Albany, New York and in the 2.5 hours it takes to get to Penn Station, I get to watch the river, the hillsides, marshes, ruins, backyards, mansions, Palisades, former castles, and more go by outside the window while I nestle in my comfy, oversized seat, which, unlike a plane or car, has an outlet for my computer. In the winter when the trees are bare, I often see not only myriad of ducks and geese, but also majestic bald eagles.
The town where I live is quite the transportation corridor. As it is the narrowest part of the Mohawk River valley, which runs east to west through New York State, most of the byways -- including major and minor highways, a canal, river, and train tracks, are squeezed cheek-by-jowl and side-by-side in a strip. To get to the former towpath that runs along the canal for my daily perambulation, I cross a 4-lane road, go under train tracks, over a river, and am within a mile of a major interstate. And that's all within a 1/2 mile of my home.
I recently found another path that was once a regular road, now closed to traffic, that runs alongside the river. It was from here that we got these pics of this wicked cool railroad logo. I love the ways the letters are organized around each other, the crafted quality of the letterforms, the way the C seems reaching out for the rest of the word. It's "wrong" in so many ways, breaking so many rules of balance and symmetry. Which makes me enjoy it all the more.