Monday, February 1, 2021

Linescape

Linescape: An image similar to a landscape, but incorporating streetcars, track and overhead wire as a dominant visual element.

Usage: The gallery was putting on a show of early 20th century Toronto linescapes. 

Source: In their 1976 book, Trolleys to the Surf: The Story of the Los Angeles Pacific Railway, William A. Myers and Ira L. Swett use the word in a photograph caption: LAP LINESCAPES: North portal of the north Hill Street Terminal, at Sunset Blvd.. There are no known instances of linescapes by either Rembrandt, Turner, or Constable.

from The Dictionary of Non-Existent Model Railroad Terms, 2nd ed., 1999.

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