Frozen Train Framed Print

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This painting was inspired by a scene in "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. The heroine is on a train to an important meeting. Suddenly the train stops. She says, "I think we're on a frozen train." [A "frozen train", in the novel, is one in which the engineer stops in the middle of nowhere and all his men leave it standing as they escape into the countryside. The reason? The government has taken control of rail traffic issuing decrees that make it impossible for these men to make a living anymore or even do their jobs the way they know how.]

These are the passages from Rand that inspired the landscape and the train:

"...the sight of the great vacuum―the plain stretching off and dissolving into moonlight...."

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"Come on," she ordered, as if he were still an employee of the railroad. "I think we're on a frozen train."

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They walked silently past the engine and on in the direction of its headlight. At first, steppi...

Born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1948. Married my high school sweetheart, Linda, in 1969. We have two daughters: Gretchen, 1969 and Heather, 1972. Three grandchildren. Served two tours in Vietnam with the Marines: Echo Co., 1st Reconnaissance Bn., '67-'68, and H & S Co., 1st Military Police Bn., '69-'70. I started drawing at age 5. I had a No. 2 pencil and a pad of ordinary writing paper. I'd draw the Japanese Elms in our front yard, my dad's car out front and the corn field across the street. Grass, sidewalk and street etc. The piano keys inside.... My parents saw fit to keep their shy son out of Kindergarten, so I never did learn to socialize. Started 1st grade at St. Lawrence Catholic School at age 5 (just missed the...

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