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Lines in the Landscape


Peter Kazmierczak
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Earlier this year SCT Logistics commenced running services on the Melbourne-Brisbane corridor in competition with rivals Pacific National and Aurizon.
Southbound 2BM9 behind SCT015/SCT012/016 passing the wind farm at Cullerin, New South Wales in hazy sun on Tuesday 4 April 2017.

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A 30-minute cab ride in the landscape. Excellent. Watch full-screen in HD if your system allows.

 

Telgart, Slovakia.

 

 

 

The second half is best after the midway stop -- better weather. Screen capture:

 

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Where is the location of the above image please?

 

It came up on the slideshow on Radio Paradise so I simply copied the link. I didn't know where it was, so I have now done some digging.

 

It turns out that it is actually a road bridge, and quite modern. Sorry about that. New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, West Virginia, USA. see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_Gorge_Bridge

 

New_River_Gorge_Bridge_by_Donnie_Nunley.

By Donnie Nunley, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22767837

 

Martin.

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From the opening post in the thread..... 

 

Hello All,
Thought I'd start a new topic - "Lines in the Landscape". As the title suggests, this is the place to put your photos where the train/railway is just a part of the overall landscape. Could be town or country - the railway might dominate the landscape or may just be a tiny part of it.

 

.....or is this destined to become another "what I saw on Facebook today" thread?

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Great Orme Tramway - cars about to pass on the top section of the line in July 2016.  Centre right is the entrance to the Great Orme Bronze Age Copper Mines and beyond in the distance the town of Llandudno.  

 

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Festiniog Railway at Tan-y-Grisiau in August 2004 with MOUNTAINEER on a Blaenau Ffestiniog train.  On the hillside behind the train is the course of the spectacular incline which formerly connected the Wrsgan Slate Quarry to the railway, disappearing into a tunnel through the rock face at top left.

 

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Perhaps not quite relevant to this topic (?) but these two photos taken at the top of the incline may be of interest - looking down through the tunnel and the remains of the winding gear.

 

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The train now stopped at Tan-y-Grisiau Station.  In the right foreground is the Tan-y-Grisau Reservoir, the bottom reservoir of the pumped storage scheme which caused the diversion of the railway, and in the right distance under cloud shadow the slate tips of  Blaenau Ffestiniog.

 

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20312 and 20316 drifting downgrade from Llandulas with a couple of nuclear flasks from Anglesey on 17 February 2003...

 

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BR Standard 2-6-4T approaching Corwen with an early afternoon working from Llangollen in 2017....

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Golden gorse on Anglesey with a Class 175 passing Rhosniegr on 16 April 2003....

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Not quite sure what constitutes a 'train in the landscape'?!! Hence, do these qualify? Taken during last weekend's GWSR diesel 'bash'.

 

This is what the opening post in the topic said which seems pretty straight forward.

 

 

 

Hello All,

Thought I'd start a new topic - "Lines in the Landscape". As the title suggests, this is the place to put your photos where the train/railway is just a part of the overall landscape. Could be town or country - the railway might dominate the landscape or may just be a tiny part of it.

 

Individual interpretations may differ.

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Pacific National locos NR109 NR74 with 36 carriages in tow take the mainline through Port Germein, South Australia with Great Southern Rail's legendary 'Ghan' service from Adelaide to Darwin on Sunday 2 July 2017.

The service runs once weekly in each direction and loadings are at their highest during the cooler months.

 

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