Lone Pine was once a regular stop for the Southern Pacific Railroad. It is no longer. Its yellow depot sits well out of town, alone and forgotten. It is in private hands now – a family is slowly restoring it. The owner graciously allowed us to photograph here. (You can meet the owner by clicking the first of the two thumbnails below. ) When I shoot a ruin, I rarely, if ever, “show the whole thing.” I usually try to find eloquent details that best tell its story. To me, those key details were the nails that have worked their way out of the old train platform, and the weary bench used by passengers waiting for the train. I include a bit of scenery to give the depot a sense of place – the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Lone Pine depot also witnessed one of the most heart breaking chapters in American history. It was through this station that thousands of Japanese-Americans passed on their way to internment at the nearby Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II. Click on the second of the two thumbnails below to see an image made at that center.