[Leica] Trains of week 12

[Douglas Barry]

As a historic rail fan, Ric, I still have a bit of an interest in 
trains, and like looking at your rail shots. Your featured shot is my 
pick too.

However, as I may have mentioned before, I'm surprised at the poor state 
of the permanent way. OK, I appreciate a lot of your shots are on 
sidings, and they thus have low speed and less stress, but they do look 
very wonky, and seem to have little investment. This is a big contrast 
with mainland Europe where high speed rail is a feature.

In an oddity of timing, I've been watching the Masters golf down the 
road from you in Augusta, and double screening, so, out of curiosity, I 
looked up the membership list of the club, and in addition to the likes 
of Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and that sort of affluent individual, I 
saw the former president/CEO of Norfolk Southern David Goode is a 
member. So rail transport must be very lucrative still, as you certainly 
need a large "wedge" to swing your wedge there. Maybe trickle down 
economics will straighten out the rail lines for your photos at some 
stage in the future :-)

Douglas



On 09/04/2017 13:41, RicCarter wrote:
> My lifelong love of trains has gotten more time during retirement.
>
> Here are a few of the trains that attracted my attention during the 12th week of 2017.
>
> <http://2017.cartersxrd.net/2017/Shoebox17/Pages/TrainsWk12.html>
> http://tinyurl.com/mcqu3zx
>
> Ric Carter
> www.CartersXRd.net
> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter
>
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