Artist Reply: This was an outrageously fun painting to do. My objective in creating the composition was to create a number of different vignettes by creating a scene in a lighted area of the painting, then separating it by leaving dark areas like the stair case roofs and railings and then lighting the interior of the stairwells themselves. Also the loading platforms are lighted and the passenger cars beyond the platforms are darkened with lighted windows. This enabled me to create a great number of scenes within scenes which is one of my favorite creative gambits. I am deeply gratified to hear that after all these years, people still find the work to be a fresh experience every time they look at it.