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Through a Glass, Darkly by Jean-Marc Frybourg

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Through a Glass, Darkly

FR – 2 février 2023 – Budapest, Hongrie

Vienne–Kyiv, la guerre, le retour

Gare de Budapest Keleti. Le train Vienne–Kiev marque l'arrêt pour embarquer ses voyageurs. Derrière la vitre d'un wagon-lit des chemins de fer ukrainiens (UZ), comme le proclame la caisse bleu et or, une femme attend le départ. Une inconnue. Elle rentre : vers un pays en guerre.

Son visage grave, cadré comme celui d'une icône, lui donne l'allure d'une madone, ou d'une voyageuse à l’air de sainte. La paroi qui la sépare du quai est une frontière : dehors, le monde froid et la dure réalité ; dedans, un fragile cocon de lumière chaude. Entre les deux, le verre, terni par le film pare-éclats que l'Ukraine applique désormais sur ses trains, pour retenir les débris quand l'onde de choc frappe. On la voit à travers ce voile, obscurément.

À la frontière, le convoi changera de pieds : les voitures seront soulevées, leurs bogies à voie normale échangés contre des bogies à voie large. Pour rentrer chez elle, le train doit d'abord se déchausser du monde qu'il quitte.

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EN – February 2, 2023 – Budapest, Hungary

Vienna–Kyiv: War, and the Way Home

Budapest Keleti station. The Vienna–Kyiv train pauses to take on passengers. Behind the window of a Ukrainian Railways sleeping car (UZ), as the blue and gold bodywork proclaims, a woman waits for departure. A stranger. She is going home, to a country at war.

Her grave face, framed like an icon, gives her the bearing of a madonna, or of a traveller with the air of a saint. The wall that divides her from the platform is a border: outside, the cold world and its hard reality; inside, a fragile cocoon of warm light. Between them, the glass, clouded by the anti-shatter film that Ukraine now applies to its trains to hold the fragments when the blast wave strikes. We see her through that veil, darkly.

At the border, the train will change its feet: the carriages are lifted, their standard-gauge bogies swapped for broad-gauge ones. To carry her home, it must first shed the shoes of the world it is leaving behind.

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Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat & Snowdrop by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat & Snowdrop

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

Sound of Sleat by Das Boot 160

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Sound of Sleat

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At 12:54 SOUND OF SLEAT IMO: 1129891 Yard No 1397 was floated and towed from the slip at 12:56. Assisted into the wet basin by Boluda's VB Phoenix,VB Belgie & Elbe.

101001 Rotterdam Centraal by Steveo46240

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101001 Rotterdam Centraal

101001 departs Rotterdam Centraal on a Southobund passenger service

SŽ 363-001 + MV 1246 "Retro Istria" | Zanigrad by pipan.minuta

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SŽ 363-001 + MV 1246 "Retro Istria" | Zanigrad

On the morning of August 4th, I decided it was time to go photograph at Zanigrad. When I got there, I was quite surprised to see many cows there, which I had to walk past to get to this spot. Some were even here at first, but after some time they decided to leave. Retro Istria, connecting Budapest and Warsaw to Koper, was obviously the main target of the day. It was running more than an hour late, this meant that the light at this location was much better than it would have been if it had arrived on time. And to the delight of all the photographers along the line, we were lucky enough to have a freight train going uphill right after it, with 363-005 in the retro yellow color scheme pushing at the rear.

Retro Istria was hauled by 363-001, wearing a gold sticker celebrating 50 years of this class of locomotives, nicknamed "Brižita" after Brigitte Bardot. However, time is ticking for them, as new TRAXX locomotives have been ordered to replace them, and they are no longer receiving overhauls.

The train is seen passing the abandoned village of Zanigrad, with a breathtaking view of the Karst Edge and the sea in the background.

1954 Mercury, Georgetown, Ontario by edk7

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1954 Mercury, Georgetown, Ontario

Continental spare tire and bumper
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Street Classics Cruise - Georgetown Cruise Night - Mold-Masters SportsPlex
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R
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P8160223 54Merc Anx2 Q90 1400h

461 102-2 RO-SNTFC by Stefan S. Trainspotter

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461 102-2 RO-SNTFC

Shunting (24.09.2025, Cacica)

461 102-2 RO-SNTFC by Stefan S. Trainspotter

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461 102-2 RO-SNTFC

Shunting (24.09.2025, Cacica)

461 102-2 RO-SNTFC by Stefan S. Trainspotter

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461 102-2 RO-SNTFC

Arrived at destination with Regional train No. 5732 Cacica-Suceava (24.09.2025, Suceava)