[Leica] IMGS: Arak Train Station

[Tina Manley]

PESO:

When we went back to Iran, we visited in passing the town where we used to
live.  In 1976, Arak was a small village of about 10,000 people.  Tom's
aluminum plant was the only thing there in the middle of the desert.
Everything had to be brought in by train.  The Shah put the plant there to
provide employment for the people even though there was no reason based on
resources to have it there.  When we visited, everything had totally
changed.  The small village is now a huge industrial city of over 500,000
people.  The nuclear power plant is there.  We found the aluminum plant and
our neighborhood but could not find our house or anything else!  I did find
the train station that I photographed in 1976:

http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000H19S3nRtJXw

40 years later, it has changed, too.  The local people said there is never
that much snow anymore.

http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I00005b_A.Jr8VKI

Interesting for Tom and me and but I'm not sure whether the new photos will
sell!  Not nearly as romantic, anyway ;-)

Tina

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