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Each year, the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators does a major show. The theme for the the show this year is Pittsburgh Recast. The show will be at the Heinz History Center in the Strip District in November.My idea for the show was to do an illustration showing the evolution of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Pittsburgh with Penn Station as the center and constant factor of the evolution. A classic story of no matter how much things change, they remain the same.
Featured in this illustration starting from the left are two classic Pennsylvania Rairoad Atlantic locomotives, a PRR streamlined K4 Pacific, a PRR T1 Duplex, a Penn Central General Motors diesel, a Conrail General Motors Geep and finally a Norfolk Southern General Electric Dash 9. These are flanked by steel mills and the modern City of Pittsburgh skyline featuring the USX Tower, PPG Place and the Highmark Building.
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No doubt about that, it's criminal. Pittsburgh had a vibrant trolley system and they tore almost all of it up. Now our streets are clogged with buses.
-YD
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Nobody really seemed to consider that Americans wouldn't stop with buying one car per family. With 2+ cars per family the minimum now, there's definitely more traffic competing for street space. When the transition was first made though, it must have been seen as a great improvement with smooth, consistent asphalt from curb to curb, no ugly overhead wiring, and more space available without the tracks taking up the best real estate. I've seen some pictures of Kansas City streets before and after the bus conversion, and with traffic at 1950's levels, the streets really did look a lot cleaner and friendlier without the trams. The unfortunate consequence is that it's far more expensive to convert back to trams, although in many cities, the tracks are still there...under 3 inches of asphalt.
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I think what Pittsburgh should have done was to scale the system down to a series of loops and kept the Streetcar system. Some of the system is now part of the light rail system called the "T". They built a busway that would have been the perfect location for light rail, but we lost part of Pittsburgh's soul when they did away with the Streetcar system.
-YD
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It's Ironic if you think about it.
It went from two companies (PRR & NYC) To one company (PC), which failed and became (CR) Only to be split back into two companies (NS & CSX)
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It is ironic that when NS and CSX divided up CR, the equipment that went to NS was stenciled PRR and the equipment that went to CSX was stenciled NYC. I personally think that both railroads need to incorporate into their names or logos something from the 2 railroads. Here's an example: [link]
-YD
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Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that, They noted it in the Aug 1998 Trains Magazine.
They had a photo of a Conrail boxcar with NYC markings on the side. "Old Initials See New Use" was the name of the caption. (It was in the Railroad News Photos.)
Keep up the good work.
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I even saw the old PRR logo type with out the Keystone on some locomotives.
I just saw a bunch of CR hoppers stenciled NYC the other day on the old P&LE mainline in Pittsburgh.
-YD
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This is amazing! I believe you should consider enabling buying this as a print... it would make an incredible wall poster!
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Thanks! I should do that. I did this several years ago for the Pittsburgh Recast show and sold the original framed 30x40 GiclΓ©e print to a collector. Part of the deal was that I wasn't to reproduce the image at the same size or by the same method, but I could sell other sizes and types of prints. Thanks for the suggestion!
-YD
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Hmmmm....it'd be nice if you could do something similar to this for maybe KC and Union Pacific (or Omaha maybe?), or something like Topeka and ATSF.
I could help with history and some shots of downtown areas since it's in my territory...
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That's a good idea! If you want to put some reference together, I'm game. The mural in KC's Union Station is pretty cool, have you ever seen it?
-YD
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Never been there, but I might this weekend. We'll see.
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I have a blurry photo of it somewhere, I could post to scraps, low light and no tripod.
-YD
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I tell you what. I was there this weekend, but wasn't able to get downtown shots. However, I'm supposed to be going out that way in early October, so I'll definitely get some day and night shots of Union Station and some other downtown landmarks around the Power and Light District. And then it's just a matter of getting some ATSF traction in there.
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Cool, I'll have to dig through my photos from KC too, I may have some useful shots of Union Station. I should really post some of the photos I took out there, it's such a great town, very photogenic! Here's some shots my son took when we were out there: [link]
Hey, could you get some photos of the Night & Day statues from NYC's Pennsylvania Station in KC? I'll get you details of it's location if you don't know where it's at.
-YD
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Where does your son Shane live by chance?
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Pittsburgh, but he gets around a bit.
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Splendid work and Massive Congratulations on the being included in the show.
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Thanks Corey! I'm pretty excited about it. It's been a good year for me, first with doing the 2007 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix poster and now this.
-YD
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Stop, Your starting to get to FAMOUS lolol.
Next we'll be saying we knew Don when he just liked to do the occasional vector
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Yea, Famous Amos I am.
Google Don Henderson, but I'm not the deceased British Actor from Star Wars fame. People keep confusing me with him.
-YD
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Hey they make great "Crackers" - I was just looking at your main page your son did for you and realized that Pam has two A's - You know wives divorce for such things 
Have a wonderfully safe and happy night tonight.
Happy New Year Don and many more.
MB~Corey
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Never had them, but I'll take your word. Thanks for checking out my web site! There are two "A" in Pamela, so she uses both of them in her nickname. I'll tell Shane. Yes, he has some fun stuff. He's becoming a talented designer, he is also getting more and more into photography, visit his flickr site: [link]
-YD
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Incredible detail! You really captured the spirit of the city (in my non-Pittsburgh-resident) opinion.
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Thanks! It was a lot of work.
-YD
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Looks like it. Takes quite an attention span.
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Awesome! Congrats on having it in the show!
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Thanks Robert! It's a big thrill, I can't wait to go to the reception for the show.
-YD
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sorry... somehow I missed this when you first posted it... great work as usual!
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Thanks Chris, I'm glad you like it!
-YD
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Nice pic. I love the "evolution" of the railroad that served Pittsburg being shown here, and the different locomotives that pulled trains there.
~Ra'akone
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Thanks! I can't wait to see this hanging at the Heinz History Center.
-YD
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when i rule the world the evolution will go the other way
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WOW!
THAT IS TRULY AMAZING!!!
I love the change from Old to New, but I personally like the older engines best.
Nice Job YankeeDog!
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Thank you! I just had a 36x24 GiclΓ©e print done of it for a show at the John Heinz History Center this fall.
Yeah, I like the steamers too, but I would have liked to have gotten a PRR diesel like a Baldwin Shark in the mix, but there just wasn't room.
-YD
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Well, it was good that the diesels were saved for last though, it gave the steamers more dominance in the image...
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I wanted the T-1 to be the dominant locomotive since I see it as the pinnacle of locomotive design.
-YD
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Another great on yankeedog!
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omg i saw some of these places when i went there for company business back in dec. awesome work btw
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Thanks! How did you like Pittsburgh?
-YD
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i loved it im thinking about going back this dec
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Cool! Not the best time of the year for weather in Pittsburgh, but I like it here anytime.
-YD
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This was chosen as one of our Vectors/Vexels Of The Week. Congratulations!
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