Home Shop For Repair
“In service when used in connection with a railroad freight car, means each railroad freight car subject to this part unless the car: (1) Has a ‘bad order’ or ‘home shop for repairs’ tag or card...”
In Spooner, Wisconsin, behind the Railroad Memories Museum, is a collection of historic and restored railroad cars, locomotives and specialized rolling stock. These photographs record these artifacts of our national heritage over several years, capturing the details that age and weather worked upon these relics.
Words like "Home Shop For Repair" lose their meaning over time. Old inscriptions on this industrial canvas lose their form as age and weather transform them into abstractions of rust and texture.
Nature becomes the artist. The textures and colors, once smooth and vibrant, become subtle and complex. Paint cracked and exposed creates maps of age.
While nature works at its own pace, railroaders work at their's to refurbish some of the more serviceable cars for use.
Change comes to this rail yard from both directions.
