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Good spot Doug, here's the original...The front of the first train is cloned from the second train, exactly as you suggest...not pretty! Regards Jeff

Jeff keep up the practice ,

It has taken me a while to dig these out the files, but here are some continuing in the vane of having been taken from a carriage window.

The first is of the flowerbeds at Aberdour station, a stop on the Fife Circle, and a blur for the mainline Intercity expresses. Taken Sept 2007.
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Fuji FinePix S9500, 1/1000 sec, f3.4, ISO 200.

The rest were taken on my jaunt on the recently reopened Borders Railway. All were taken Oct 2015.
The first shows a Class 31 and a Class 57 loco at Craigentinny depot, East of Edinburgh Waverley.
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Nikon D80, 1/80 sec, f5.6, ISO 100, 105mm lens equivalent.

The second is Borthwick Castle and church, as we headed into the Border country.
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Nikon D80, 1/125 sec, f5, ISO 100, 78mm lens equivalent.

Next we have a couple of enthusiasts, out to see our A4 loco.
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Nikon D80, 1/125 sec, f5.6, ISO 100, 202mm lens equivalent.

And finally a shot of the old girl herself, winding up Falla Bank. A4 Pacific, Union of South Africa.
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Nikon D80, 1/50 sec, f5.6, ISO 100, 202mm lens equivalent.

[quote='EnglishBob' pid='106174' dateline='1459103450']
In this image you can see the three side drive pistons. (sorry for the poor quality).


What an amazing beast Craig, I don't think the steam heritage people in the UK would allow a diesel steam engine!

I have had a little play with the image, I hope you like the results:

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These shays are fantastic looking engines, I like the B & W version, My all time favourite train photographer was O'Winston Link who said that he couldn't control the sun so did his photography at night using flash.

My take, to each his own!! Cheers. Ed.

You could always go the whole hog.

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Here is one of a similar appearance. This was taken back in the late 60's, of a shunting loco owned, by what was then "The British Aluminium Company", at it's Burntisland works. I was experimenting with creating transparencies from 35mm negative film (probably Ilford FP3), and something went a bit awry during the developing. I ended up with a reel of slightly surreal, old fashioned looking images. I liked what I found.

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(Apr 27, 2016, 10:35)Gandalf1953 Wrote: [ -> ][quote='EnglishBob' pid='106174' dateline='1459103450']
In this image you can see the three side drive pistons. (sorry for the poor quality).


What an amazing beast Craig, I don't think the steam heritage people in the UK would allow a diesel steam engine!

I have had a little play with the image, I hope you like the results:



Err! I don't think Shays were Diesel, they just had their cylinders mounted on the side instead of being mounted on the front of the Loco inside and outside the frames, I'm sure there must be some footage of them working back in the day on YouTube.

No. 10 burns oil, with a capacity to hold 1,200 U.S. gallons (1,000 imperial gallons; 4,500 liters) of oil and 3,420 US gal (2,850 imp gal; 12,900 L) of water. This locomotive is reputedly the largest narrow gauge Shay locomotive ever constructed.

I wouldn't be diesel but probably heating oil. Pretty much the same thing. Possibly a slightly heavier viscosity.

That one certainly is diesel, burns fuel oil to create the steam. The tender is just a fuel tank with pipes coming out of the top and an inlet valve for filling it, holds 1200 gallons.

Heating oil, fuel oil, same difference. I always think of Diesel as the UK DERV variety.

Back in the 80's the Oil fired Engine on the Nene Valley would take old sump oil and burn that, I collected sump oil in barrels from a garage next door then filled the back of the car with barrels, only to be told that they had converted it to coal.
Luckily enough the guy on shed duty told me to leave the barrels as they could use it to clean the Engines. At least I didn't have to cart it home again that would have pleased err! Indoors.!!!

When I was a young driver our local garage used old sump oil to run their heating unit. They never had to worry about disposal, every time they did an oil change.

Here is a shot from last night, as 60103 Flying Scotsman crosses the Forth Bridge.

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Nikon D80, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR lens, Manual mode, 1/250 sec, f5.6, ISO 250, 450mm lens equivalent, processed in Lightroom and Nik Software.

And an altogether different shot of the Forth Bridge. This one taken, many years ago, from behind the cab of a DMU heading North, into Fife.

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Any camera details there may have been are lost in the mists of time. Can't even guess when it was taken.

(May 16, 2016, 13:20)Jocko Wrote: [ -> ]Here is a shot from last night, as 60103 Flying Scotsman crosses the Forth Bridge.


Nikon D80, 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR lens, Manual mode, 1/250 sec, f5.6, ISO 250, 450mm lens equivalent, processed in Lightroom and Nik Software.

Lovely shot John, an historic event after the Flying Scotsman has spent 10 years being rebuilt.
John

It has been a couple of weeks since anyone has posted here so I thought I would add this one, taken in the 1980s. I shows a Stanier Black Five, waiting for the road, at Boat of Garten station on the Strathspey Railway.

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Very dramatic, John. Almost a silhouette, and a pleasing composition - works well.

Cheers.
Philip

Here are another couple of shots. One old and one fairly new, though looking older.

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The first is what was standard fare on Scotland's railways back in the 60s and 70s. It shows a Diesel Multiple Unit passing Newbiggin Signal box which was on the outskirts of Burntisland. These lovely signal boxes are almost all gone now a days.

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The second photograph is of a Type 67 hauling DB Schenker Mk2 AC rake, approaching Burntisland. This was an extra train which ran between Edinburgh and the Fife Circle, every week day evening, to help get the commuters out of the city. It ran for a few years, but sadly I have not spotted it at all this summer (it passes me about 18:30 so it is only the summer when it is light enough to see it).

Great images. It is a pity the site now displays such small photos, without opening another window.

Thanks John
I thought it was me, how long have they been this small ?
Oh! Well I'm off to Duxford now for Flying Legends so hopefully I'll be posting More big boys toys soon.
Holt ticket office as the B12 drops onto its train.

That one would make a terrific jigsaw puzzle. Just has the look.