phil barnes photography

I had a lousy cold most if the time I was at this place keeping me from photographing the interior of the module train until the last night I was there.   I was able to spend roughly two hours before tiredness and coldness got the better of me.  I honestly think I could spend a solid week working on that place before running out of things to do.  There are so many details and so much history there.  I am not sure what about this place is so compelling to me.  The Point Lonely installation, like all of the cold war radar sites, was built to detect incoming Soviet bombers.  The module train, which is the central piece of the installation, was not so much a facility as a device.  And all of what is present at the site was not only purpose built, but likely innovated on the spot for this purpose.  The ingenuity is stunning.  Now the site sits rotting in place waiting to be demolished, the cold war now long past.

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