Art Prints

Thursday, May 31, 2007

"Four Horse Power"

This painting is a watercolor and from the series from the Pagosa Junction area lumber camp operation. I call this "Four Horse Power." These work horses did a lot of heavy hauling. Without the modern equipment of today, logging was a very hard and dangerous job.

Trains were used to bring supplies into camp, and they also brought up temporary housing. They looked like railroad cars converted to housing, but were smaller. In one of the photos an engine was off the track. Possibly the rails spread from the rains and heavy mud, or just got top heavy with the load. The men got the horse teams out and managed to pull the train back up onto the tracks. Amazing what a few men and a few horses can accomplish. Without cranes!
Time to sleep. Will try to get more up soon.



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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to see your paintings on your blog. They are wonderful, and enjoyed your descriptions as well. For some reason when I saw Bless the Beasts and Children before I just thought it was a priest somehow, so am glad to hear the story. The hair threw me off.
Love, Lynn

Judith Angell Meyer said...

She used the same bowl for her haircut, as she used on her three boys!!

~J~