Gerard Klaassen
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Some years ago I visited the Railway Museum in Utrecht, which I think is the only museum in the world that you walk in directly from the train platform.
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Gary Ayala
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Camouflage
Travel Town - Griffith Park
Los Angeles, California
Canon 20D w/ Canon 60mm
Gary Ayala
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Locomotive from the inside-out.
Travel Town - Griffith Park
Los Angeles, California
Canon 20D w/ Canon 10mm
Peter Roberts
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Oh dear, Gerard. Trains, eh? I feel quite a few contributions to this thread coming on.
To start with here's a privately owned narrow gauge line situated not far from us. Rejoicing in the name Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway it features an eclectic collection of rolling stock from various European countries.
Canon 20D, EF-S 17-85mm USM
To start with here's a privately owned narrow gauge line situated not far from us. Rejoicing in the name Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway it features an eclectic collection of rolling stock from various European countries.
Canon 20D, EF-S 17-85mm USM
Tony Warren
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Gerard Klaassen
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That's the spirit!
Love those narrow gauge lines.
In the Netherlands never used for passenger transport, but exclusively for industrial use and there is still a single line in use in the Rotterdam region mostly. 'Smalspoor' it's called in Dutch.
Gerard Klaassen
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Wow! The image on the left in photo 02.jpg looks very similar to the (drawn) version used at the beginning of Agatha Christie's television series 'Hercule Poirot', very impressive.
Peter Roberts
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What I especially like about these sort of threads is that they give me an excuse to delve in my archive.
This is the Severn Valley Railway, a long established heritage railway here in the UK, on a cold and wet day in the late seventies. Plenty of opportunities to indulge in billowing steam and reflections.
Minolta SRT 303b, Rokkors 28mm f3.5, 50mm f1.8, 135mm f2.8. The film was Agfachrome CT21, the two B&Ws post created.
This is the Severn Valley Railway, a long established heritage railway here in the UK, on a cold and wet day in the late seventies. Plenty of opportunities to indulge in billowing steam and reflections.
Minolta SRT 303b, Rokkors 28mm f3.5, 50mm f1.8, 135mm f2.8. The film was Agfachrome CT21, the two B&Ws post created.
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Gerard Klaassen
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VSM steam train company, a tourist trip with the so-called 'Koningslijn' through the Veluwe, a wooded area in the east of the Netherlands.
Just a little bit of contrast: current commuter train in my hometown.
(Fuji X-E1 + Meike 6.5mm fisheye lens, combination of a positive and negative layer)
Just a little bit of contrast: current commuter train in my hometown.
(Fuji X-E1 + Meike 6.5mm fisheye lens, combination of a positive and negative layer)
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Gary R. Smith
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Here's a few...
Beth Anthony
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Gary Ayala
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Gerard Klaassen
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Gary R. Smith
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I'm guessing that's an oil drip? Hard to tell without more context.
Gerard Klaassen
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Yes, found in all kinds of versions on steam locomotives, this one is on train 326 built in 1881 (top speed: 90 km per hour)
Peter Roberts
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Of the same vintage and with the same gear as my Severn Valley Railway shots here are some of the Snowdon Mountain Railway.
Built in the 1890s and using Swiss locomotives it is the UK's only passenger carrying rack and pinion railway. Three of the original steam locomotives are still operational.
That's one of the originals at the summit. After that conventional shot I got obsessed with capturing trains lost in the landscape. So much so that some ended up looking almost like some sort of spot the train competition.
Built in the 1890s and using Swiss locomotives it is the UK's only passenger carrying rack and pinion railway. Three of the original steam locomotives are still operational.
That's one of the originals at the summit. After that conventional shot I got obsessed with capturing trains lost in the landscape. So much so that some ended up looking almost like some sort of spot the train competition.
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Gary R. Smith
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The shot with the curves makes me wonder if they employed a variable gage but I suspect it is just an optical illusion and that the track width is in fact constant.
Peter Roberts
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Yes, it's an optical illusion. The gauge is constant, 800cm in this case. I'm guessing that I used a telephoto to emphasise the way the route snakes round natural gradients to avoid overly steep gradients. The centre toothed rail, the rack, complicates the impression of unevenly spaced track.
Gary Ayala
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Nicely captured. (Don't make 'em like they used to.
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