Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Steam engine
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Tue Dec 11 23:07:34 2007
References: <475E7529.3090102@numericable.fr> <003001c83c1e$52f12540$6501a8c0@xyw>

This is not too bad, either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ukkopekka.jpg
All the best!
Raimo K
personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/


Quoting "A. Lal" <alal@duke.poly.edu>:

> It looks like a Class WG goods locomotive. Approximately 2500 of
> these were 
> built. These, and the  magnificent Class WP passenger locomotives,
> were 
> extremely rugged and reliable engines. The types WG and WP were the
> last 
> broad gauge steam engines used on the Indian Railways.
> 
> The  Class WPs are to my eyes  amongst the best looking steam
> locomotive 
> ever made, along with the Class J of the Norfolk & Southern, the
> streamlined 
> Class 03 of the DRG and, of course, the A4 of the LNER.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Philippe Amard" <phamard@numericable.fr>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 11 December, 2007 6:31 AM
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Steam engine
> 
> 
> > For train lovers, retrieved last night from the cigar box.
> > Shot in Kadjuraho, India in 1982, and probably part of the British
> 
> > heritage there.
> > http://tinyurl.com/2ytnf7
> > Phx
> > 
> 

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