(You've got automobiles down there don't you Brian? That's what those 100,000 passengers use today, or air travel.)
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rick > > Great image - wonderful architecture. > > I'd love to see a photo of that hall back in its heyday. > > (How can a station that catered for 100,000 passengers daily end up > being abandoned? Ending up as a shopping mall seems a sad end but > better than demolition, I suppose.) > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:28:47 -0800 (PST), "Rick Womer" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I left Denver last month and traveled to St. Louis, where I had a day of >> shooting while my wife toiled. >> >> This is the Grand Hall of Union Station. The station is a huge and >> glorious structure, built in the 1890s and once the largest and busiest >> railroad station in the U.S. In the 1930s and 1940s it served 400 trains >> and 100,000 passengers daily. Abandoned in the 1970s, it was restored in >> the 1980s as hotels, convention center, and shopping mall. >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=8317483&size=lg >> >> K10D, DA 10-17 fisheye, ISO 800, f/3.5 @ 1/20, handheld, RAW via LR2. >> >> Rick >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
