Today the part of Belgium where I live saw some snow. That’s a rather rare thing, so after work I went out to shoot an evening rush hour train. Hoping for a vintage 21 series, but this new 18 series loco also worked well. 20 minutes delay was all that I needed to get it at the blue hour. The platforms of the station will … Continue reading Snowy opportunity
The sun is rising slowly above the frozen fields, that will slowly warm up and lose their white tint. A typical view on regional non electrified lines in Belgium since the early 2000’s, but wintery scenes like this are still very enjoyable. Continue reading Frozen warm
The gloomy and short winter day ended at the monumental bridge over the Rhine river at Duisburg. I squeezed the camera through a fence to get a decent view on the steel monster, hoping for some freight but getting a bright passenger train. Nicely contrasting the bridge. It was only getting darker and I was getting more and mmore soaked and cold: the signal for … Continue reading Giant steel monster
In the previous post, I promised it would be better. While driving down the mountain, temperature increased and the snow disappeared quickly. We noticed the BLS train we photographed before, riding slowly and coming to a halt. That meant we had a chance to get a better picture of this train. We chose a famous location, but one I hadn’t been to before. And yes, … Continue reading Second chance
You try a location and try and… sometimes, it just doesn’t turn out the way you want it to. Walking up and down the hill, forward and back again, I couldn’t find a place where the tracks and surroundings came together nicely. It could have been the combination between closely spaced catenary poles, light poles from the nearby road… We were about to leave to … Continue reading The train does it
Railscapes 