[Leica] Baku Rail Yard

[Lluis Ripoll]

Great shot Matt!
Cheers
Lluis

El 20/08/2015, a les 9.58, Matt Kollasch <narbutta17 at gmail.com> va escriure:

> 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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