Northern Pacific (Elegy for Fallen Flags)

A foreboding portrait of a future without trains. When they are gone there will be nothing left. Catch your slice of history before it is too late. *** 1975 - the train station at Portland OR, there are traces from the past everywhere. Abandoned rooms, faded ticket bulletins, only a shadow remains. Resting in silence, three phantoms appear, clothed in the fashions of World War II. They wait in anxious expectation. The lights turn red--indicating a train approaching. The sound grows louder...