Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, Nice shot. How many times a year can you take these out for a spin, anyway? I once knew a guy working in a money management firm in Glasgow who part owned a steam engine. He told me they were allowed to take it on public tracks once a year. Whenever he visited India - this was in the mid to late 1980s - he was a PITA because we had to get complex permissions to enable him to photograph steam engines that were still functioning at that time in the Mumbai Docks! Alternatively I had to send him off to the three narrow gauge hill trains that even function to this day - from the plains to the big colonial hill stations of Darjeeling, Simla and Ooty, all at various other ends of India from Mumbai, thousands of kilometres away. New Delhi has a lovely and pretty comprehensive train museum, if anyone is headed that way. Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>wrote: > > I sometimes think that bad weather IS good enough for photography - I think > this shot captures the wetness of it all and the rather different > saturation > of the colours in wet weather. > > Hope you like it - the locomotive is an ex-LNER K4 class 2-6-0 built in > 1937 for work on steep grades in Scotland and is seen here in British > Railways livery at the station in Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors > Railway, the most successful preserved railway in the UK. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Transport/Railways/NYMR/20080904-_MG_8776-Edit-1.jpg.html > > Cheers > Douglas > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >