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Rail By Night.
On this page is my experimentation in night photography
and what better a subject then the NSWGR once the bloodlines
of the Nation. Railways stations where the heart of any outback
town and more often then no the town's where built along the
railway rather then the railway built to the towns.
With the change of goods transport from rail to road
the town station's slowly died off from the lifeblood of the
nation to derelict building as beautiful as they are that
litter the outback, Many station's are built od the same plan
but are very much different.
So please scroll down and have a browse as you visit
some of the historic railway stations well preserved at in
the silent night. I really admire Winston O Link who by himself
took it upon himself to preserve the working steam railways
of America the only way he could by Photography and sound
recordings , please take a look at the museum dedicated to
him by the link to the right side. He was really a master
and his photograph's are masterpieces originals gaining many
thousands at auctions worldwide.
While most photo's below are made using available light
with station lights , train lights and the moon some are made
using those and a flash with manual setting. Films are 400ISO
, 100ISO and 50ISO using both print and slide film, With the
long exposure times anywhere from 30 seconds to 30 minutes
a good solid tripod is needed i use Manfrotto. Also with the
long exposure's and the bitter cold of the winter it really
sucks the power out of batteries if you are using a camera
with electronic shutter 4 AA's normally last a couple rolls
of film and using the flash at mostly full power the batteries
go real quick.
With the Canberra Tourist railway at the moment is
using Diesel electric power due to the overhaul of there steam
locomotive 1210 which incidentally hauled the first train
into Canberra.
A couple restored FS coach's await
at Queenbeyan Station.
A pair of 73 class locomotives await to
run around there train.
Queenbeyan Awaits quietly for a train that
might never come.
Queenbeyan Station awaits in the silent
of the night.
Queenbeyan Station Box. Once overworked
now silent.
Once again Queenbeyan station is busy.
Once the heart of a city now only graced
by a couple explorers a day.
Queenbeyan box awaits its next call of duty.
Explorer unit finally gets some rest after
a long day.
73 Unit and its train break the silence
that has all but taken over the southern monaro line.
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