Rail Trail Cafe
Outdoor Restaurant
The Rail Trail Cafe is a popular seasonal outdoor pizzeria and music venue, situated in the woods along the beautiful Wallkill Valley Rail Trail. They serve wood-fired pizza and other tasty foods throughout the warmer months of the year, and have an eclectic assortment of musicians, poets, and other performers on most weekends. They had been in business for a few years without a proper logo, and needed someone to help formalize/ re-design it, as well as help with print and web listings for their entertainment. It’s been really fun, and the logo looks great on t-shirts!
I get paid for this job partially in food, because their pizza is so good and my family loves to go there almost every weekend over the summer!
(I didn’t make the RTC website, but you should check it out so you can come eat there and hear some music, if you’re in the area!)
I did not invent the symbol that the Rail Trail Cafe uses. They got the basic image from old hobo mythology. Legend has it that the people who traveled the rails during the Great Depression (hoboes) had symbols that they would leave in various locations to send messages to each other. Two circles touching each other meant “Don’t give up”, as in “Better stuff is beyond this point”…which is really nice for a place that sits right along the railway where hoboes used to travel.
