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[Robert Pence]

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.

[R@ptor]

Some new ones I took during the last few weeks in China and Sweden.

China

New Chinese HSR (360kmh/222mph)




Business Class




Shanghai Main Railway Station




CRH1


Economy Class




Shanghai South Railway Station


CRH2


Sweden



X2000 HSR


Stockholm Central Station

[Robert Pence]

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.

[Bedhead]

Wonderful photos, everyone. Bedhead, the first London photo with the smokestacks and the tracks curving around the structures is a stunning composition.

Thanks, Rob! I took that one a while ago, and have since seen quite a few shots from that vantage point - a bridge just south of Victoria station. The smokestacks are on the other side of the Thames, and the whole scene just begs to be photographed!

I've posted more pics from that neighbourhood here - no extra train shots, though.

Another shot from London, this time from Southwark:

[Minato Ku]

Paris Gare de l'Est



ICE in Gare de l'Est




Metro (Platforms lines 5 and 7)

[Minato Ku]

Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Montigny-le-Bretonneux station (a southwestern outer suburb of Paris)










The last stop of the previous trains, la Défense (western inner suburbs)

[harryc]

[Robert Pence]

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.

[hammersklavier]

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.

[harryc]

Originally Posted by hammersklavier

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.

Yes a digital - my trusty Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4, the sky really was white that day - well more of a uniform gray. I have resisted going to PhotoShop (or GIMP) as I have many other things competing for my time, one day, when the kids are gone.

[Minato Ku]

[hammersklavier]

Originally Posted by harryc

Yes a digital - my trusty Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ4, the sky really was white that day - well more of a uniform gray. I have resisted going to PhotoShop (or GIMP) as I have many other things competing for my time, one day, when the kids are gone.

When I looked at it on my Toshiba laptop last night, it looked like your sky had no color value and was hence overexposed. Seeing it at school right now, I can see just enough of a change in color value to indicate that overexposure's not what's going on.

By the way, if you don't have too much sky, I've found light like that is perfect for photography.

[CTroyMathis]

A couple o'random Amtrak shots today in New London.CT.US:

[CTroyMathis]

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:

[Chicago Shawn]

[harryc]

[Evan]

Originally Posted by Robert Pence

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.

I don't envy other countries often, but when it comes to rail travel, passenger service in the US is a national disgrace.

[Boroda]

Germany, regional express in Leipzig main station:





Little model of a town with railroad (in Leipzig main station):





Dortmund:



Cologne:



Brussels:

[Parkway]

Originally Posted by Robert Pence

I love everthing about this picture, I have a soft spot for the EL, and I have a major thing for RS-3s.

[Robert Pence]

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.