• 2022 Capstone
    • Omar Noah Gonzalez
    • Jade Luther
    • Eden Smith
    • Aaron Heinrich
    • Dawson Peters
    • Elliot Lovell
    • Christyana Fletcher
    • Alyson Disbrow
    • Omar Barrera
    • Sarah Tuttleman
    • Jack McMIllan
    • Leanne Brodie
    • Meghann Grace Peltz
    • Cameron Zucker
    • Kylie Brennan
    • Tesa Ahuna Turqueza
    • AJ Edelman
    • Sydney Fife
  • 2021 Capstone
    • Juana Apachito
    • Caleb Autry
    • Kylie Barela
    • Carlynn Begay
    • Timmy Deppe
    • Michael Gregersen
    • Charlotte Haston
    • Madeleine Howard
    • Alan Kammerman
    • Diana Ochs
    • Michael Patacsil
    • AnnaLycia Patrice
    • Marisa "MP" Pinette
    • Celia Reid
    • Maria Saldivar
    • Lindsay Tolstedt
    • Kayla Willis
    • Natalie Wiseman
    • Tyler Woodward
    • Yingni Wu
  • 2020 Capstone
    • Alastair Poll
    • Austin Sudweeks
    • Bess Valdez
    • Carynn Meyers
    • Cassidy Coles
    • Cecilia Polichetti
    • Claire Sipos
    • Courtney Jorgenson
    • David Williams
    • Emilio Ferrara
    • Grace Oresman
    • James Muraki
    • Jayna Powers
    • Jenni Summers
    • Katherine Perry
    • Katie Kroeppler
    • Marc Amaya
    • Margaret Whittaker Reniker
    • Maria Rene Marsh
    • Michaela Sullivan
    • Miles Rhoades
    • Nicole Babler
    • Savannah McKinzie
    • Savi Klasen
    • Shannon Cowan
    • Shannon Swain
    • Shelby Sorensen
    • Sierra Olson
    • Stephanie McLean
    • Tehlor Takahata

Alastair Poll

Northern Arizona by Rail

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been interested in everything about trains. In the more recent years, I’ve moved into photographing trains to both capture the moment while also showcasing the trains in an artistic manner. During my time spent next to the railroad lines waiting for those trains, I’ve often looked down the tracks and began to think about how if you were to walk down those tracks, you’d see completely different cities, scenery, and landscapes compared to where I was standing now. In a sense, I was asking myself two questions: Where do these tracks go, and how does the landscape around the tracks change? These are questions that many people don’t think about when waiting for a train to pass, crossing the railroad tracks, or even just looking down the tracks and off into the distance. Since this is an often under looked thought about the railroad lines around us, I’ve spent the last semester photographing the trains of Northern Arizona within the different landscapes as they cross from one end of the state to the other. This gives you the ability to feel like you’re in the cab of a train, watching the scenery go by, and witnessing those changing landscapes next to the tracks, and in the future, you too might look down a set of train tracks and like me, wonder where those tracks go and how does the landscape around the tracks change. All Aboard!!

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Holbrook, AZ

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Winslow, AZ

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Canyon Diablo, AZ

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Winona, AZ

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Flagstaff, AZ

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Maine, AZ

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Williams, AZ

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Doublea, AZ

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Crookton, AZ

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Seligman, AZ

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Crozier Canyon, AZ

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Valentine, AZ

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