Zapatan, those are interesting photos; there's quite a lot more activity on the ground than there would be for a typical freight train. Perhaps it's extra security as the train moves out of a siding onto the mainline.
Can you provide any information about where they were taken? The track looks like it might be broad guage rather than the standard gauge (4' 8 1/2") common in North America and much of Europe. Two countries come to mind when I think of broad gauge, Russia and Spain, but I know there are others. |
Beautiful shots. Some of the beautiful, clean, well-lit train sheds in Europe and Asia provide a striking contrast with some of ours in the U.S., dark, gloomy, subterranean places still grimy with the soot from coal-burning locomotives that have been gone for more than fifty years.
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I've posted more pics from that neighbourhood here - no extra train shots, though. Another shot from London, this time from Southwark: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FyC5sF136g4/S_...Q/s912/420.JPG |
Paris Gare de l'Est
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/...1811e133_b.jpg ICE in Gare de l'Est http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/...dafc466c_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/...cde34a1e_b.jpg Metro (Platforms lines 5 and 7) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/...38a6de47_b.jpg |
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Montigny-le-Bretonneux station (a southwestern outer suburb of Paris)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/...0152489f_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/...42137eeb_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/...3ffe8967_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/...1a0c61fb_b.jpg http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/...8d06fd81_b.jpg The last stop of the previous trains, la Défense (western inner suburbs) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/...20caedcf_b.jpg |
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Old Ektachromes that were in the camera a little bit too long before processing, and they've faded - I had to punch them up some with Nikon Scan and Photoshop. They're grainy and have lost color saturation, but I think they'll do.
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Nice shots, Robert!
Harry, the white space in your sky tells me that 1) you shot with a digital camera, and 2) that it overexposed your sky. You might think about using Photoshop to fix that in the future. |
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By the way, if you don't have too much sky, I've found light like that is perfect for photography. |
A couple o'random Amtrak shots today in New London.CT.US:
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5098/img5506edit.jpg http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/3364/img5501edit.jpg |
Oh, and one more Amtrak fly-by from just beyond the outfield fences of a little league ballpark in Groton.CT.US from back in April:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/9...042410edit.jpg |
Gary, Indiana
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Freight outside of Chicago
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Germany, regional express in Leipzig main station:
http://s008.radikal.ru/i305/1010/1a/bae1db203732.jpg http://s010.radikal.ru/i312/1010/82/4706bab02142.jpg Little model of a town with railroad (in Leipzig main station): http://s016.radikal.ru/i334/1010/fe/1693071237d0.jpg http://s012.radikal.ru/i319/1010/0a/5a01be84d695.jpg Dortmund: http://s015.radikal.ru/i330/1010/d3/b8763daa6799.jpg Cologne: http://s010.radikal.ru/i314/1010/9e/3b1532b80bf5.jpg Brussels: http://s016.radikal.ru/i334/1010/39/ebf7bccd4486.jpg |
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Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the photos; I wish I had spent more time around the yard in Huntington, Indiana. A couple of blocks away I could see some carbody units, and I should have taken more photos of the depot. Not long after the railroad shut down, the depot burned.
The EL, and before it the Erie, was a good operation. Until the last few years the track was well-maintained and the trains ran fairly fast. Some time in the early 60s I tried pacing one of their passenger trains westbound between Decatur and Huntington. My '56 Ford was making 90mph on US 224 and the train was steadily pulling ahead. I gave up. |
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