At Huntington, Joe Zucker's 130-foot fantasy train chugs animatedly down the platform while serving as a windscreen. Each faceted glass panel shows a cartoon-like flatcar hauling Long Island wares and sights, one to a car. We see an oversized lobster, giant duck, jumbo potatoes, and a big bluefish. Other images are the Montauk lighthouse and a sailboat. Zucker's fanciful images - the bluefish is green, the potato is blue - are rendered in faceted glass, equally powerful day and night. Says Zucker; "I hope that this piece brings travelers enjoyment, that it gives them memories and of Long Island and moments of pleasure." As the title indicates, members of the artist's family were employed on the railroad: "It is in memory of my grandfather and uncles who served as engineers and firemen on the trains of a distant past."

Joe Zucker is a Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941. He received a B.F.A. in 1964 and an M.F.A. in 1966 from the Art Institute of Chicago. His art is quirky and idiosyncratic, and most often relates to the materials, such as cotton and plastic. The Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Modern Art, the Parrish Art Museum (Water Mill, New York), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) are among the public collections holding work by Joe Zucker. Zucker lives in East Hampton, New York.