This is the old Mertztown Train Station located on Chestnut Street in Mertztown, PA. It was built in 1895 and served patrons of the former Reading Railroad. The station was closed by the Reading Railroad Company in 1964. The Mertztown station is now owned by Atlas Minerals and Chemicals, which is the industry located adjacent to the station and tracks. It is currently used for storage by Atlas. The “Mertztown” sign was built and painted by an Atlas employee who was also responsible for convincing Atlas to repaint the station into original colors.
As you can see, I shot this during one of the more overcast parts of Sunday which really brought out what I like to call the “HDR clouds”. I shot this as seven bracketed RAW frames and then combined them into an HDR with Photomatix Pro and finally, tone mapped that image to create the final product.
There’s a nice database of Pennsylvania Train Stations (existing and gone) available on this page.
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