Archive for 'Photos' Category
Train track therapy in Indonesia [via Boing Boing]
These people aren’t protesting anything … they’re hoping to be healed. In the Indonesian town of Rawa Buaya, people believe that electrical energy carried by the railroad tracks can cure disease. REUTERS/Enny Nuraheni [via Boing Boing]
Siemens Desiro Russia: production begins
Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways (RZD), and Peter Löscher, Siemens CEO, officially launched last April 26th the production of regional trains for the Russian city Sochi in a ceremony that was attended by Dr. Peter Ramsauer, German Federal Minister of Transport. The first 38 of the total 54 Desiro RUS type regional trains ordered [...]
China – In Transit: a photo project on Chinese trains
In Transit is the project of Theo Volpatti, a professional photographer from Milan. Shots taken on the trains from ÜrÜmqi, Western China, to Xi’An: a trip 2500 km long in search of a job. I think you can watch more photos on the dedicated page of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
Inside the Gotthard Base Tunnel [photo]
A miner climbs on excavated rocks after a giant drill machine broke through at the final section Sedrun-Faido, at the construction site of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel March 23, 2011. Crossing the Alps, the world’s longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. The project consists of two parallel single track [...]
Railways in World Press Photo 2011
Here we are with 2011 World Press Photo contest winners. With a surprise for us, aficionados of steel rails: 3rd prize of Daily Life section goes to Andrew Biraj with this “Overcrowded train approaches station, Dhaka, Bangladesh”. If you wish to see high quality pictures of the contest, I suggest The Big Picture blog.
Symmetries in railway stations
Suggested by schweizweit.net, I post to R2.0 audience the album on Flickr of railway stations symmetries group. Perhaps a little bit Teutonic oriented, I think they will easily accept foreigners’ contributions!
The Railway Museum, Saitama, Japan
I would like to post some of the photo sets I created months ago on Flickr, visiting some railway museums. It could be the start for a new series of posts! I will begin with The Railway Museum in Saitama, Japan. I visited it last September and was really amazed for the quantity of real [...]
Talgo II photo album on LIFE
Just by chance, I found this photo album poking around LIFE Google-based search engine for photos. I suppose it refers to first Talgo II train set produced in the U.S. in 1949 by the American Car and Foundry Company (ACF) under the direction of Spanish engineers. Photos were taken by Al Fenn. For those who [...]