Just for Show It's all about TRAINS (open thread)

[Gerard Klaassen]

It's all about TRAINS (join in - open thread)

I don't consider myself a real trainspotter, but I always enjoy seeing and photographing old and unusual specimens.
This is an open thread, so join in and show your photos of trains and everything that goes with them here in this thread, this should eventually become a colorful, international collection of trains on this forum!
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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.


Train 376, painted by Dutch stencil-artist Hugo Kaagman following a controversial exhibition of his works.


De Kameel (The Camel) is the latest addition to the Railway Museum, it's a train from 1954 used as an inspection and management vehicle, the name comes from the 2 bumps on the roof where the train driver took the seat to drive the train. This train, nickname VIP car, was also rented out to businessmen and celebrities, such as pop group Queen during their first visit to the Netherlands.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Camouflage
Travel Town - Griffith Park
Los Angeles, California
Canon 20D w/ Canon 60mm

 

[Gary Ayala]

Locomotive from the inside-out.
Travel Town - Griffith Park
Los Angeles, California
Canon 20D w/ Canon 10mm

 

[Peter Roberts]

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

 

[Tony Warren]

Well Gerard was a trainspotter in my youth and I credit it with getting me hooked on photography. These are some of what I took around 1952 or so with my Dad's Folding Autographic Brownie.

 

[Gerard Klaassen]

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.

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]

Well Gerard was a trainspotter in my youth and I credit it with getting me hooked on photography. These are some of what I took around 1952 or so with my Dad's Folding Autographic Brownie.

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]

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.

 

[Gerard Klaassen]

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)

 

[Gary R. Smith]

Here's a few...

 

[Beth Anthony]

 

[Gary Ayala]

 

[Gerard Klaassen]

 

[Gerard Klaassen]

 

[Gary R. Smith]

I'm guessing that's an oil drip? Hard to tell without more context.

 

[Gerard Klaassen]

I'm guessing that's an oil drip? Hard to tell without more context.

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]

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.

 

[Gary R. Smith]

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.