Title and description liberally borrowed from Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad.

3.21.2010

What Was Once

The former glory of a deserted train station, high wooden benches as long as the room are empty save for a couple of bums. Abandonment, echoes, arched windows and vaulted ceilings towering over decades of history with nothing to show for it. Underground, the doors locked or nonexistent. Trains hundreds of people must once have ridden to all points. Chicago! Los Angeles! St. Louis! Portland! All aboard! And now, nothing. St. Patty's Day revelers seem not to notice the heavy heart of the vast hall. A plaque outsides marks the historical landmark - 1881! - and inside a security guard sits a card table with his feet up reading the funny papers. Beware! Memories of the ghosts of travelers past haunt all ye who dare enter here.


From Wild Wild West

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