Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 .