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Schalt- und Gleichrichterwerk Halenseestraße
Die Linie S46 war die letzte, welche durch die Baureihe 485 mit Vollzügen bedient wurde. Nach deren Ablösung durch die neueste Fahrzeuggeneration fuhren die übrigen Fahrzeuge auf den Linien S8 und S85 maximal als Dreiviertelzüge.
Hier bremst ein solcher Vollzug die letzten Meter an den Bahnsteig des Haltepunkts Hohenzollerndamm auf der westlichen Ringbahn, um nach dem Fahrgastwechsel die Fahrt nach "KaWe" fortzusetzen.
Dieses Bild ist nun auch schon wieder gut zwei ein halb Jahre her - 21.06.22
Berlin,railway,S-Bahn,Halensee
Aufgrund des 35 jährigen Jubiläums des Mauerfalls fuhren die Dampflokfreunde Berlin bzw. ihrem Markennamen "Berlin macht Dampf" drei Mal über die Ringbahn.
Auf der dritten und letzten Rund konnte ich dann die 52 8177 vom Parkplatz des Baumarktes an der S-Bahnstation Halensee fotografieren, während sie mit viel Dampf an uns vorbei fuhr.
Halensee / Friedenthalpark
Halensee / Friedenthalpark
Halensee / Friedenthalpark
Halensee / Friedenthalpark
Halensee / Friedenthalpark
Apparently an image for "No Window Wednesday" ;) And another photo of the Bauhaus Halensee façade which is not entirely without windows because there are large windows (window walls, even) in both entrance areas but that's it.
After flipping the image horizontally and vertically, the façade looked like an incoming spaceship to me. There are different types of "alien invasion" or "alien arrival" science-fiction movies, the majority of them with a dystopian storyline of aliens who came to assume world domination or eliminate humanity but there are a few ones that depict a positive image of alien lifeforms. Whether the crew of this "spaceship" falls into the first or the last category for you depends solely on whether you are a DIY person or not ;)
The image is a true HDR made of bracketing (three photos) combined in HDR Efex with minimal extra adjustments afterwards such as the image flipping and some tweaking of the primary sliders for blue and green in LR.
Happy NWW, Everyone :)
#siderssunday
#urbanpoetry
Rails and (real) clouds (and a little bit more) on the opposite side of the entrance to the DIY superstore Bauhaus Halensee (please see the image in the first comment). The entrance to the Bauhaus store is on a fairly high bridge, and the two-story Bauhaus building was built on the premises of the former goods station Halensee which was closed in 1990. The rails on the right of the pretty old signalman's house ("adorned" with the inevitable graffiti) belong to Berlin's extended S-Bahn (city train) network, here the circle line that was completed as early as 1877, but several steps of extension followed. During the Berlin Wall, the circle line was interrupted and was operated independently in both parts of the city.
The red train on the bridge is a regional train. Regional trains are typically built as double-deckers, so people with lots of or large pieces of luggage or who bring their bicycles are supposed to stay downstairs, and everyone else can go upstairs (when you zoom in on the train, you can see a huge bicycle sticker). Well, that's the theory. Regional trains are often overcrowded, especially on the line to the Baltic Sea. The people who visited Germany for the Euro 2024 and travelled by train can now tell their personal stories of the DB's (Deutsche Bahn) "efficiency" and (un)punctuality ;)
In the background, you can see a few Berlin landmarks: the Berliner Funkturm – the city's first radio tower (opened in 1926) – behind our West Berlin "spaceship", the now closed congress centre ICC. The smaller tower behind the ICC belongs to the RBB TV centre (RBB: Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting).
The image is an HDR made of a three photo bracketing (combined in HDR Efex). I tweaked it further in Color Efex and in LR to make it a true slider (but then, all my images are sliders).
HSS, Everyone!
