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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Steam engine
From: raimo.m.korhonen at uusikaupunki.fi (Raimo K)
Date: Wed Dec 12 02:04:01 2007
References: <475E7529.3090102@numericable.fr> <003001c83c1e$52f12540$6501a8c0@xyw> <1197443211.475f888b37e90@www.uusikaupunki.fi> <475F8BB7.70409@numericable.fr>

Here is a better image:
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuva:Hr1_1021_Rm.jpg
This the Finnish engine Hr1 - known as Ukkopekka. Two survive.
All the best!
Raimo K
personal photography homepage at:
http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho/


Quoting Philippe Amard <phamard@numericable.fr>:

> Not bad indeed.
> Looks like it got a wee bit of tuning though :-D
> The four front wheels  show a slightly different model I'd say.
> Mine was still operating when I shot that 25 years ago as a remanant
> of a European past age.
> BTW. I travelled these and I can tell my kids that TGVs are way
> cleaner
> I guess India no longer uses them though and they must have
> disappeared altogether.
> Thanks all for your precious information. I'll end up liking and 
> shooting more trains as your passion seems very contagious. ;-)
> Phx
> 
> 
> Raimo K wrote:
> 
> >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 thelast 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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