Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks everyone for looking, Richard, it is a lost era, but one that hardly anyone misses, only a few weeks before, the "Workers Collective" pulled out and nobody knew what the future held for their jobs or the railway. Until the frontier fell, the railway up the mountain was only used for transporting Russian military materials to their "listening post" at the summit (which is now a hotel and museum).Access to the mountain had been forbidden since the early 50s. The railway is now enjoying so much success that they are even building a new stretch of track to the northeast. There are wonderful photo opportunities on another part of the line where steam hauled trains run through the narrow streets of towns and villages - I'll have to get over there again sometime. Douglas Richard S. Taylor wrote: > Really like the light in this one. The photo is evocative of a lost era. > >> Hallo all, >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/Forge_RGB_edited_2 >> it's old pictures time again, one of a series taken in the workshops >> of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen (Harz mountain narrow guage railway) >> shortly after the inner German border fell. >> The HSB is now very much a going concern since the Eastern Harz >> National Park opened for tourism, the railway is run almost >> completely with steam traction and climbs Northern Germany's highest >> mountain, the Brocken. >> Comments welcome, >> Douglas >> Technical stuff: Leica M6, (Leitz)-Minolta 28mm, Ektachrome 400, BW >> conversion in PS channel mixer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >