[Leica] Baku Rail Yard

[Matt Kollasch]

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

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