Roger Puta was a prolific railroad photographer and railfan. He was born in 1944 and grew up in Chicago. He worked for railroads and lived in DC and San Francisco. He photographed trains and streetcars all across America, Canada, and Mexico. He and his partner ran a bus touring company. His photos are very distinct, with a more muted color pallete and pictures that sometimes almost appear painted. He took more than 5,000 photos of trains during his lifetime. He often goes unsung as a gay railroad photographer, and is not as recognized as he should be. He died in 1990 at age 46. Discussing his death at a young age was off limits. Puta died of AIDS, a disease that was purposely ignored by the Reagan administration. Puta deserved to live, and was taken too soon.
Please go view his works. I will be posting many more pictures to c/urbanism but I'm including some links here to his work.
More on Roger:
His longtime friend Marty Bernard (who uploaded the pictures) discussing Roger
The Twitter thread that inspired this post
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Driving from houston to Dallas and back again should train pill more people tbh
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The majority of the trip is up/down 45, probably at its widest in north houston, most of the trip is 2 lanes on each side. Where Im at rn It’s about 10 with 4 lanes of frontage
Traffic is still shit and I’ve been held up multiple times coming to a complete stop
But Americans never think "This is a shitty solution from moving from point A to point B." Instead they think "What if we had twice has many lanes? Or even three times as many?"
Just one more lane, it’ll work this time come on
bro just one more lane, i swear bro we can fix this just one more lane, come on just give me one more lane bro please you gotta trust me, it's just one more lane one more lane and we're done bro it'll work it's just one more lane