Lowlines, Episode 3: Trainline
PLACE:The placelessness of the train while moving through vast and shifting landscapes for 36 hours also creates a strange, metal-wrapped place all of its own. A home on the move. Cosy and secure and endlessly stimulating. Makes me think of what Richard Grant says in American Nomads: “a nomad is someone who doesn’t feel stable when stationary. A nomad feels stable when experiencing velocity”. I hear that. We pass through Louisiana swamps, young cypress thickets, past petro-chemical plants that fringe the Mississippi, tiny clapboard filled towns, into Texas and its glut of oil refineries…
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