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Just Out of the Paint Shop
by Andrew Harmantas
Oil on archival plywood panel
Original Painting Image size 22" x 28"
Framed size 22½" x 28½" (narrow profile, deep channel wood gallery frame)
Lee Hall, Virginia, is close to where I live and is the occasional spot where I take a break from painting to watch
trains. The station was built to serve the special trains that transferred passengers for the ride to Yorktown for
the nation's Centennial celebration in 1876. It was a gem of a structure, but has since fallen on hard times from
lack of maintenance, and is now in the process of being relocated by the city of Newport News. The sweeping roof
overhang and massive corbels are long gone. This was not so when I moved to Virginia in the early 1980s. Lee Hall
was still a flag stop for Amtrak. The Chessie System had an operator there, and some maintenance teams operated from
the station. After the onset of the Chessie System, when I had come to accept the stylized Chessie Cat symbol on the
front of its locomotives, more mergers resulted in the CSX corporation, and I saw my first locomotive in the then
brand new CSX scheme. This is a not-so-new SD40, looking resplendent in its new livery, with hardly a speck of dirt
anywhere except below the walkways.
Price: $1,500 (includes US shipping)
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