Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice one Matt, and I envy your opportunity. Please explain what a ?gandy dancer? is because I now have visions of a Leica-toting guy in a sequinned and lurex jump suit, which isn?t great! Gerry Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or +44 (0)797 287 7932 > On 20 Aug 2015, at 08:58, Matt Kollasch <narbutta17 at gmail.com> wrote: > > On a recent walk I ended up on the back side of Baku rail yard where they > maintain and clean the wagons that are dispatched, for example, with the > night train to Tbilisi. I like rail stations, trains, and rail yards > despite (or because?) having working three stints as a gandy dancer when I > was a young man. I wanted to see what it was like in that rail yard so I > walked in. > > With those first steps I wondered how long it will take them to kick me > out. I immediately met a "chief" who spoke German so we talked despite my > meager German. I stopped to take a photo and he walked on so I was then > without an escort. I soon passed two police officers and kept walking. So > far so good. I then met a woman cleaning the wagons who wanted her photo > taken and then she took me over to her friend where I took some more shots > (I will return to give them prints). > > Soon the same two cops I had met before we there telling me to leave the > rail yard. They were friendly about my expulsion and didn't have me delete > photos. I was in the rail yard for twenty minutes. > > In addition to the shots of the workers, I managed to get this shot: > http://www.kollarfoto.com/azerbaijan/ ::: M240 | 35 Summarit > > /matt > > . > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information