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Decoy Ducks by James Mann

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 06:03:14 MST

A young man, his dog and his decoys... on the water in South Carolina... a commission... 24" x 18"

CPR McAdam Station NB by James Mann

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 05:53:32 MST

Watercolor… 12"x20"... this, the third and final expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) Station and Hotel in McAdam, New Brunswick, was completed in 1901. It is also the third distinct railroad station erected in the town. This impressive structure was designed by Montreal Architect Edward Maxwell in a massive “Chateau” style, and it became a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976. Canadian Pacific gave up the station to VIA Rail in 1978, and VIA Rail discontinued passenger service through McAdam in 1994. Presently the station and hotel complex is jointly owned and maintained by the Government of New Brunswick, Parks Canada and The McAdam Historical Restoration Commission and sees use as a museum and reception venue. I visited and wandered around the premises in 2016, but did not go inside, as there was a large dining event in progress. This is the West facade, viewed from Saunders Road.

Pasture South June by James Mann

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:01:38 MST

Watercolor… Plein air, June 15, 2021. Pasture viewed south. Currently grazing 2 alpaca, a bunch of goats & a flyby vulture. The thing standing upright is an old street sweeping, bristle brush, which the alpaca use as a scratch post.

Sheard Clymer Covered Bridge by James Mann

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:21:09 MST

Watercolor… Sheard’s Mill Covered Bridge, also known as Clymer’s Covered Bridge or the Thatcher Covered Bridge, was built in 1873, on what is now called… Covered Bridge Road, near the village of Thatcher. The bridge spans 130 feet over the Tohickon Creek, connecting Haycock and East Rockhill Townships in Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania… and provided Haycock farmers with direct access to Sheard’s mill. The mill beyond, was built and operated in the early 1800’s by either David or Levi Sheard, well into the late 1800’s. It also became locally known as Clymer’s Mill, after John Clymer… the last man to own, operate and grind at the facility. This Town Truss bridge was cosmetically rehabilitated in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Bridge (# 38-09-06) belongs to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The mill is now owned by and on the premises of the Tohickon Campground. And this view of the bridge… looking East, is sited from the newer, Camp Tohickon located on the opposite bank of the creek. … painted in February of 2021, a month of major snowfall in this area.

Two Together by James Mann

Mon, 06 Jul 2020 05:34:27 MST

CF7 #2627 . Ran When Parked by James Mann

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:52:09 MST

... I first came upon this CF7 in January of 2017. She was sitting quietly and looking quite forlorn, off to the side of the Colebrookdale Railroad's (CRR) main running track in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. #2627 started life in 1946, as shiny, streamlined, Santa Fe EMD F3 cab unit, 21L... in classic red and silver, "Warbonnet" livery, the proud face of "Super Chiefs". Beginning in 1972... Santa Fe chopped and rebuilt about 200 of these now old F3's into CF7, wide box cab, narrow hood switchers, giving engineers better visibility when spotting cars during yard duty. These units emerged, repainted as blue and yellow Warbonnets... which, on the #2627 has now faded into a paleish cream color and a sort of nondescript grayish green, punctuated by huge swabs of rust... although the distinctive shape of the warbonnet design still remained visible along the sides of the long hood, framing large "M C H" letters... and someone had kept up with the "Safety Yellow" paint. Midwest Coal Handling (MCH) had taken possession of the unit in 1984. She then went to the Clinton Terminal Railroad (CTR) in the Nineties, working hard... until she suddenly showed up in 2015, with great expectations, at the Colebrookdale yard. Old #2627 disappeared from Colebrookdale about a year after I last saw her... and now it seems, she's turned up again, as of 2020, at the Minnesota Transportation Museum as a parts donor for ex-Great Northern (GN) F7 #454A, before she's finally scrapped. How could I not paint this locomotive ??? Say Good Bye...

Dusty Lady by James Mann

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 05:07:53 MST

This is a poster for a children's book titled "Whopper the Chopper"

Last Light Soy by James Mann

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:04:16 MST

John Deere Side Hill 9500

Prim Point Lighthouse by James Mann

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:37:35 MST

... this is the fourth illuminated structure marking the entrance of Digby Gut to the Annapolis Basin, along the Nova Scotia coastline on the Bay of Fundy. This appears in the ubiquitous, utilitarian cubist re-interpretation... in contrast to the third Prim Point Lighthouse, of 1874... which was a tapered wooden tower with a small attached, two story keeper's quarters. This current light is automated and consists of a flat roofed box with a beacon atop a tall, concrete corner tower. The facility is painted white and the tower has four vertical red stripes below the lantern room. The first Digby Gut light was built at Point Prim in 1804, but it only lasted four years before it burned to the ground. Therein followed a rather dark period until 1817 when a second lighthouse was built.

Lake Lenape Twin Suspension Bridges by James Mann

Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:16:46 MST

both Perkasie and Sellersville are split by the East Branch of the Perkiomen Creek, in Pennsylvania. Lake Lenape was created between the banks of the Perkiomen... water that backed up behind a dam built above the Main Street Bridge in Sellersville to the Walnut Street Bridge in Perkasie. A widened lake formed where the Pleasant Spring Creek flows into the Perkiomen. In 1936, a narrow strip of an island was formed west of that influx and the following year, a pair of Federal Works Projects Administration (W.P.A.) footbridges, were erected to cross the Perkiomen. Menlo Park (organized in 1892) sat on a ridge above, with a tracked "tobaggan" amusement ride hugging the steep hillside down to the creek. Both Menlo Park and the Lake Lenape Park were developed extensively for a variety of recreational activities; however, over the years just about everything except the twin bridges, a few picnic pavilions and a preserved 1951 Allan Herschell Carousel, have been lost and removed from the parks. I spent a lot of my youth in this area... fishing, ice skating and exploring. These twin suspension bridges remain reasonably conserved and open to the public in much the same appearance as built, with the exception of ADA compliant ramps that have been placed over the steps. This is how it looked, when I was a kid.