Freight Door at Abandoned Train StationI'm taking part in Frank's Doors of the World. At first I dug around in my old travel photos and found a great door in Oxford, England. I even adjusted the exposure and cropped and sized it, but then I got to thinking and realized it should be a door from my home town. So yesterday whilst driving to an appointment, I stopped by the old Western Pacific train station. My town is a hub of sorts; all manor of shipping was done here and is still done here. Western Pacific has been a part of our history since 1903. Just imagine the interesting things that have passed through this now abandoned portal.
You can see more doors I've already posted here, here, and here.
Here are links to other participants in Doors of the World.
Elizabeth Wix, "The House in Marrakesh", Marrakesh, Morroco
Frank Gardner, "My Paint Box", San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Ambera Wellmann, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Constance, "Rochambeau"
Jennifer Thermes, "Art-Words-Life" - Connecticut , USA
Joanne Giesbrecht,"Thistledown Arts", Alberta, Canada
Eric Orchard, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jack Riddle, Portland, Maine, USA
Christine Mercer-Vernon, "An Artist's Log", Pennsylvania, USA
Faye Christian Phillips , Kentucky, USA
Britt-Arnhild, Norway
Kate and Roger "The Skophammers", Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Terry Rafferty, USA
Barbara,"Ramblings from an English Garden", London, United Kingdom
Pam Aries,"Art and Soul", Charleston, S.C. ,USA
Mary Sheehan Winn," Just Painting", Florida, USA
"Some Pink Flowers", St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Rima, "The Hermitage", Scotland
Merisi,"Merisi's Vienna for Beginners", Austria
Paz, "Paz's New York Minute", New York
"Down Under Dale", Australia
The Aesthete, "Aesthete's Lament", USA
Mari/ Kameravena, Finland
Maryam, "My Marrakech", Morocco
Willow from "Willow's Cottage", California, USA
Ari, "Typo Blog", Finland
Lea,"Tales from the Labyrinth",USA
Stephanie, "Rodrigvitzstyle"
Madelyn,"Persisting Stars", Vancouver, Canada
Leslie,"Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tales", Pennsylvania, USA
Karen Cole,"Artsortments", Pennsylvania, USA
Barrie, San Diego, California, USA
Sherry/Cherie, Toronto, Canada
Claudia Schmid, London, United Kingdom
Sue, "The Magic Armchair Traveller", Congresbury, Bristol, United Kingdom
Gemma Wiseman, "Greyscaale Territory", Australia
Neulekirppu, Finland
Sara Lorayne, "Come Away With Me", California, USA
Frank Gardner, "My Paint Box", San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Ambera Wellmann, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Constance, "Rochambeau"
Jennifer Thermes, "Art-Words-Life" - Connecticut , USA
Joanne Giesbrecht,"Thistledown Arts", Alberta, Canada
Eric Orchard, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jack Riddle, Portland, Maine, USA
Christine Mercer-Vernon, "An Artist's Log", Pennsylvania, USA
Faye Christian Phillips , Kentucky, USA
Britt-Arnhild, Norway
Kate and Roger "The Skophammers", Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Terry Rafferty, USA
Barbara,"Ramblings from an English Garden", London, United Kingdom
Pam Aries,"Art and Soul", Charleston, S.C. ,USA
Mary Sheehan Winn," Just Painting", Florida, USA
"Some Pink Flowers", St. Augustine, Florida, USA
Rima, "The Hermitage", Scotland
Merisi,"Merisi's Vienna for Beginners", Austria
Paz, "Paz's New York Minute", New York
"Down Under Dale", Australia
The Aesthete, "Aesthete's Lament", USA
Mari/ Kameravena, Finland
Maryam, "My Marrakech", Morocco
Willow from "Willow's Cottage", California, USA
Ari, "Typo Blog", Finland
Lea,"Tales from the Labyrinth",USA
Stephanie, "Rodrigvitzstyle"
Madelyn,"Persisting Stars", Vancouver, Canada
Leslie,"Snips and Snails and Puppy Dogs Tales", Pennsylvania, USA
Karen Cole,"Artsortments", Pennsylvania, USA
Barrie, San Diego, California, USA
Sherry/Cherie, Toronto, Canada
Claudia Schmid, London, United Kingdom
Sue, "The Magic Armchair Traveller", Congresbury, Bristol, United Kingdom
Gemma Wiseman, "Greyscaale Territory", Australia
Neulekirppu, Finland
Sara Lorayne, "Come Away With Me", California, USA
18 comments:
Great shot - would love to see the Oxford door as well!!
It's amazing how much character all these doors have...good to see you on mine!
I so enjoyed this post and all of the links.
Doors are one of my favorite subjects.
Thanks for sharing.
Great Door! I love the arch, very little new construction includes beautiful wooden arched doors. what a great piece of history, and the building looks in great shape too!
This certainly is a great door. Thanks for yur visit and comments.
I would love to border a train there.....
Nice door. It looks wise. Thank you for your contribution. I have had more fun traveling through so many amazing doors today!
Constance
Thank you for sharing all the doors. I especially enjoyed the third of the links about your visit to Tintinhull garden. We are going to England in the summer and now I have another garden to visit! (Have you been to Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire?)
Beautiful shot! Thanks!
And I'm replying to you here too: How does Mottisfont compare to Tintinhull?
Terrific pictures! I've enjoyed looking through them!
...Thanks for your comment on The Dedicated Blogger! Started doing them last week, and post them on my main page first - just added another.Not sure how often I'll update - depends if something appeals to my sense of humour....
Lucky for me that the Doors of the World have opened to show me your work and world. I'm enjoying this trip around the globe and meeting such wonderful artists and bloggers. This is a beautiful door: what a shame it is no longer possible to make the journey through it, but what tales it must have to tell. Best wishes.
Large wooden doors are very mysterious -- solid, dependable...and this one is historical as well!
There's something a little sad about abandoned doors, as if the purpose for their existance has disappeared forever. Or perhaps not...such a lovely, graceful door as this will surely be opened again, maybe to a whole new purpose....
What a wonderful addition to all these doors around the world--an abandoned door. If only it could talk... Thank you for this great photo!
This is a pretty one, It makes me want to peek inside.
I love the thought of what might have passed through those doors and gone on to various parts of the country, into different people's hands and lives. Thanks for this picture, and for the imagination it has set free!
Nice door. I love train stations.
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