[Leica] Steam Trains in Black and White

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

Hello Peter,
the NYMR are runnibg a service 3 times a day 3 times a week from Whitby 
to Glaisdale in the Esk Valley (wonderful scenery!!), there are plans to 
get steam hauled traffic up as far as Battersby, and, much later as far 
as the North East Mainline routes at Middlesbrough. Further planning is 
under way to make a link to the coast to coast (trans-pennine route at 
Malton (change for Scarborough,York, Leeds Manchester and Liverpool) but 
that is in it's earliest stages. Interestin is that the Trans-Pennine 
and Arriva (the local PTOs )drivers have started taking steam driving 
and firemans courses, and both of these companies are offering joint 
tickets along with the NYMR.
The past definitely has a future - passenger figures have risen 
enormously since steam was reintroduced.
Douglas
BTW, the effects in the background of the Scotsman in York are the 
remains of trying to rescue a totally screwed up shot, the exposure was 
way off, there was an ugly colour cast and the weather was dull and dreary.
I'm still working on trying to get a decent colour version of it.

Peter Dzwig wrote:

> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> I was so impressed with the look of Peter Dzwigs BW pictures of 
>> trains that I thought I'd have a go too.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage
>>
>> Not really and truly and honestly black and white, I've been playing 
>> with a plug-in that's supposed to emulate the characteristics of 
>> various BW films (these are all fake T-Max), these were all (mostly), 
>> taken on Elite chrome 200 slide film. Leica R7 and Canon EOS 500N 
>> both with various Leica lenses.
>>
>> Hope you like them, comments are more than welcome.
>> cheers
>> Douglas
>>
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> Douglas,
>
> I like all of them, particularly the ones of the 'Scotsman. The colour 
> does show off the livery well. But are those smoke deflectors in period?
>
> Great shots all of them. Was there a steam day at Whitby? "All steamed 
> up" is a great reminder of what we are missing - or rather aren't!
>
> Like the crew at Grosmont leaning against the tank engine. Very 
> typical of BR, very "period" ;-)
>
> Don't really know about the plug-in is. There are some effects round 
> the  edges of some objects which look odd and can't all be dismissed 
> as steam, ege the railings beyond the tank in the last photo, the far 
> background in the one of the 'Scotsman leaving York and so on.
>
> But great photos - hope you had fun; after all that **IS** what this 
> is all about.
>
> All the best,
>
> Peter
>
> PS I will post some more locos later
>
>
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