The Ocean Shore Railroad Remembered: a Poem

I'd be in mortal danger

standing here,

If this were 1910 or so.

For where I stand

a train once ran;

Clinging to the cliffs,

challenging the sea.

And now,you know,

the sea has won.

Cliff has crumbled,

tracks no more.

I miss the train

I never knew,

And so I go

beside the sea,

And stand there

thinking

On the tracks.

This is a scanned copy of an actual photo I own. It does show an Ocean Shore Railroad locomotive underway. I found this photograph at a model train show in a booth selling all manner of old historic photos of trains. Only the subjects were identified: the name of the photographer has long been lost to history and the same fate as the train itself.

Given that the photographer is unidentified, and it is well past the date of any copyright that may have existed, it can be classified as being in the public domain.