Photographed in Kingman, Arizona, this image presents the Santa Fe 3759 locomotive from a straight-on perspective. The centered view shows the engine’s face in full — the great circular door, bolts, and numbering plate that once led passenger trains through the Southwest.
Made using the wet-plate collodion process, the photograph emphasizes texture and contrast: metal darkened by years of heat, grease, and dust rendered in silver tones. The medium’s deliberate pace suits the subject’s permanence — a meeting of nineteenth-century craft and twentieth-century engineering.
Part of the NomadType Route 66 series, Head On stands as a study in symmetry and strength, a reminder of the power that once defined America’s railways and the towns that grew beside them.
Photographed in Kingman, Arizona, this image presents the Santa Fe 3759 locomotive from a straight-on perspective. The centered view shows the engine’s face in full — the great circular door, bolts, and numbering plate that once led passenger trains through the Southwest.
Made using the wet-plate collodion process, the photograph emphasizes texture and contrast: metal darkened by years of heat, grease, and dust rendered in silver tones. The medium’s deliberate pace suits the subject’s permanence — a meeting of nineteenth-century craft and twentieth-century engineering.
Part of the NomadType Route 66 series, Head On stands as a study in symmetry and strength, a reminder of the power that once defined America’s railways and the towns that grew beside them.
