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North Shore coach 748 somewhere in Illlinois (Mar. 1962)*
Ektachrome my collection, Al Clum photographer.

This was the first steam engine I saw in Greece. I was at the station taking photographs and this train arrived. No fanfare, no special event, just a normal operating day at the railroad. In practice, the Hellenic Railway (OSE) was trying to retire steam and were short of power, so these engines were working only until they acquired additional power and could be retired for once and for all. This was a local train and after arriving and discharging passenger, the engine, an ALCo-constructed USATC S-160, ran around the cars it had hauled in, reloaded with passengers and headed back down the track from whence it came. Water plugs were a common railroad feature throughout the areas of Greece I was able to visit.

NOT A SINGLE WORD came out of this mysterious girl during the whole flight. She tried hard not to even look at me, ever evading my eyes. The seat between us remained empty. Imagine it would have been painful for her to have a stranger sitting that close to her were the middle seat taken. The question is, who is a stranger for her? And who isn't? Somewhere at entering the Austrian air space I realised that faces turned away speak as well albeit in a weird way. This will remain my memory of her, who-knows-who on the way to who-knows-where, separated by who-knows what (next to gender and age). But we did take off together from the same city and sat at half a meter distance for almost two hours in the same cabin. We did share the same destiny in a thin-walled, air-pressured aluminum fuselage lined with plastic. Lady in black, next to the photographer in blue. Never to meet again. And not actually met anyway, even if those imposingly intimate circumstances usually suggest the opposite.

Cameraphone sooc edited in Snapseed. Cold/Levante filter for 50% in Flickr's online editor. The location is an educated guess based on the flight route, take off and landing times.


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2Y42 Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverly (Via Shotts) Class 385 in Scotrail Saltire livery seen here heading east towards Midcalder Jn on the Shotts line.

387118 & 387119 at Ely on 24/02/2024 with Govia TSGN service 1T17 08:42 Kings Lynn to London Kings Cross.

170619 at Turves on 24/02/2024 with Crosscountry service 1L38 11:30 Coleshill Parkway to Cambridge. No danger of waking the enormous sleepy pig!

158889 at Turves on 24/02/2024 with East Midlands Railway service 1R74 12:55 Norwich Thorpe to Liverpool Lime Street.

170397 at Turves on 24/02/2024 with Crosscountry service 1N55 12:27 Stansted Airport to Coleshill Parkway.

Date: Dec-82
Location: Jarrow depot
Chassis: Bristol RE
Body: Eastern Coachworks coach
Vehicle Registration: MCN883L
Operator: Northern
Fleet no.: 4883

Also visible are Bristol VRs DGR862S (Northern 3362), UTO832S (Northern 3341), and two unidentified Leyland Atlanteans.

Auf der Elbe vor Cuxhaven

Snowdrop heading river south for Seacombe Ferry stage (pan shot)

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Royal Daffodil approaches Seacombe Ferry for some provisions after departing Tranmere Basin, Cammell Laird.

She would then proceed to Huskisson Dock branch 1 south west via Gladstone Lock

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Royal Daffodil departs Tranmere Basin, Cammell Laird, bound for Seacombe Ferry for some provisions before proceeding to Huskisson Dock branch 1 south west via Gladstone Lock

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Snowdrop heading river south for Seacombe Ferry stage (pan shot)

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Royal Daffodil departs Tranmere Basin, Cammell Laird, bound for Seacombe Ferry for some provisions before proceeding to Huskisson Dock branch 1 south west via Gladstone Lock

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Snowdrop heading river south for Seacombe Ferry stage (pan shot)

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Royal Daffodil heading river north after departing Seacombe Ferry bound for Huskisson Dock branch 1 south west via Gladstone Lock

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Royal Daffodil departs Seacombe Ferry bound for Huskisson Dock branch 1 south west via Gladstone Lock

Snowdrop slowly making an ebbway approach to the berth

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Delta Air Lines Airbus A319-114 N345NB at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport on the 9th of May 2026
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