Talking to my friend who is in law school in Lubbock, I was telling him about my new place in Brooklyn: how fresh and nice it is with the remodeling, how close it is to work, how large it is, etc. When I mentioned that it was just one easy train ride from my house to work, he laughed and said it was just like the movies, getting on the subway and going wherever you want to go. And that is one huge change that struck me. In Texas, riding the train, much less the subway is completely foreign.
I have one friend in Dallas who used to ride the DART, but other than him, no one I know has ever ridden a train in Texas. I remember it being so strange to walk into Grand Central Station for the first time and see the tunnels leading off to the LIRR, the Amtrak trains, all the subways, and seeing a huge message board listing the dozens of places that you could reach from this one huge terminal. I love going into those big hubs, it makes me feel like I'm back in the grand old age of train travel, back before cars, when trains were the fastest things in the world! I like to picture the tunnels and tracks spreading out in a gnarly web, diving underground, popping up above-ground, dipping into stations, cars emptying and filling back up.
The drawings in this post are some of my favorite section drawings ever, I love the idea of all these different levels interacting. To me there is something utopian and thrilling about the idea that all these levels can be so harmonious and happy together.
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