Author Archives: Paul Rennie

This was the stand-out display this year…a post-industrial fantasy, Mad Max style!

This photo is of the rail-head and pier, at the docks in Oakland, California. Nowadays, Oakland is one of the largest Pacific-facing ports in the US. Oakland does a bot of heavy-lifting for Los Angeles, and the Bay area. The … Continue reading →

This is a lovely small impressionist style painting, in open air, of a suburban railway station. There are many famous paintings of the railway, by Monet and Pissarro especially. In this painting, I especially like the architectural detail of the … Continue reading →

This picture of a steam loco, on the ceinture line in Paris, reminds us that steam trains in cities produce lots of mess – soot and steam especially. Not surprisingly, most of the areas around the railways tracks were either … Continue reading →

I like the look of that! The ceinture was a line built to go around Paris, so as to make journeys across the city easier, especially as the city expanded rapidly at the beginning of the 20C.

I love the shape of this tank engine, for local suburban services around Paris…a sort of ideal form for this type of engine. So-called because the water tanks flank the boiler.

I love the way the railway line, now transformed into an urban walk-way, just slices through the building. In modern times, the brown-field railway hinterland of trackside and siding has become a site of huge added value. in London, check … Continue reading →