On Track

Oct 19, 2015
1 min read

And if I think about it, train travel is a little bit like time travel. At the onset of the industrial revolution that forever changed the world, trains also inevitably changed the way people traveled and how they knew the world. If you notice some of the oldest train stations in the world in the beginning of the 19th century, and if you strain your ear hard enough, you would hear the walls speak stories of glamour, of romance of traveling by rail.

Trains are slow. But purposely and deliberately so. But in the same token, they evoke a certain nostalgia about a time we will never get back, though we collectively and secretly wish we could.

The time of long conversations with strangers, newspapers and paperbacks, and card games in the lounge car. The time of patience and waiting.

The time of undivided attention.

Two weekends ago, I shot a special in blog collaboration with Clarks. My friend, photographer, Jenny Sinocruz, has held a fetish for photographing railroads and I knew these stories about train travel had to be folded in somehow.

I hope you enjoyedmy short collection of my favorite train memories and photos from all over the world. And I hope you get inspired to travel by train yourself soon. Don't forget to send me a postcard.