Got the Itch

While reprinting, perusing, ordering, day-dreaming and anticipating yet another printing of my VIA Rail books, I got the itch to write again. Well, not so much write as create. 'Writing a book' always sounds like a novel. And I don't read nor write 'em.

No, this creative process would involve local railway and industrial history in an as-yet-unknown format. 

I'll be digging out the Post-it notes and a final decision will be made and shared here on Canada Day. If it's a yes, you heard it here first!

-Eric

Telegraph Poles into the Distance

Having worked on that backdrop for the eastward view from the Outer Station, the top photo taken by my Dad back in summer, 1970 caught my eye. What leads our eye to the horizon but those telegraph poles at right. I tried to use this visual trick to force the viewer's vision into the distance and suspend disbelief that this is only a two-dimensional view.

Out came the scissors and some dark grey cardstock. I snipped a few telegraph poles with a perspective line to give me pole heights to portray a visually acceptable perspective. That prototype seemed to work. I took a plastic telegraph pole and placed it at the east end of the station. 

Light brown cardstock seemed a better choice, so I snipped crossarms and poles then glued and taped them together. I used strips of Scotch tape to hold the top of the poles in place while judging the perspective. Though I need to work on the track/background transition a bit, I think these poles are going to do their job! It's all a matter of perspective!