Old Railway Through Cuenca
by Al Bourassa
Title
Old Railway Through Cuenca
Artist
Al Bourassa
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Artworks
Description
At one time there were 110-kilometers of track from Sibambe to Cuenca, Ecuador’s third largest city, which took almost 57 years to build, and it passed right in front of my home. Continued political rancor and a mounting external debt were the principal causes of the construction delays. The Sibambe-Cuenca section was the last railway in Ecuador to be inaugurated in 1965.
The complete rail system survived less than 10 years. Throughout the 1970s the government discontinued most of the secondary lines because it lacked the funds necessary for repairing them. Flooding and mudslides regularly consumed many branches of the railroad and, eventually, even closed the main southern and northern lines. Bits of track are still visible between the walking paths in front of my home.
This digitally altered artwork is derived from a photograph taken Nov 2/15 of an old photograph located inside the Old Cathedral in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America nestled in the Andes Mountains.
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July 30th, 2016
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DAN MARINESCU, THANK YOU for the kind FEATURE of this artwork in the group PREMIUM FAA ARTISTS
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DIGITAL DESIGNS, Scott, THANK YOU for the kind FEATURE of this artwork in the group FAA PORTRAIT GALLERY