NASA's Art Rides the Rails

摘要

It was one of those in-between moments: I was surveying the scene in the parking lot next to the railroad crossing in Taneytown, Maryland, an unspoiled pre-Revolutionary War town of about 5,000 souls. For a while I chatted with Chief Melvin Diggs, who had pulled up next to me in a patrol car to see if I was up to no good. He'd been keeping an eye on the open tents behind me filled with work by local artists. But the main attraction was stretched out behind him on the tracks, raked by the late afternoon sun—the four windowless cars and caboose of Artrain.