The first time
My stay in Gdynia for the winter break turned out to be very eventful. Let's start it all one by one with this picture!
SM42-2500 (what a nice number!) is seen shunting around the liquids transloading terminal in the harbour of Gdynia (the sea starts roughly 250m behind the locomotive). The locomotive belongs to the leasing company DLA and is currently in use by CTL, which does most of the shunting operations in the area.
During my many stays up north, I never managed to see any traffic on this part of the network of the harbour tracks. And thus, I got very excited when I saw that this train is going to be headed right here. After cycling to the railway crossin, from which the picture is taken, I first had to wait roughly 20 minutes before the locomotive finally sorted all the wagons into the destined areas of the terminal, I then entered the crossing and pulled out my camera to snap some pictures.
Shortly after that, I heard a loud "Hey!" from behind my back. It turned out that some police officers, which were stuck in a traffic jam caused by the Stonka's shunting operations didn't really like me taking pictures here. After a not very pleasant conversation, which lasted around 10 minutes, the police finally let go and I could freely roam around the harbour for the hours to come. Here are some of the arguments I used , for when you find yourselves in a simmilar situation ;) (mainly adressed to foreigners):
-The law allows me to photograph anything as long as I am on public ground
-The recently passed laws currently have no power because the minister of national defence didn't publish the exact description of the 'No photo' sign
-I have been roaming around here for the entire day and countless police patrolls and security men passed me without even bothering to ask anything.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The first time
My stay in Gdynia for the winter break turned out to be very eventful. Let's start it all one by one with this picture!
SM42-2500 (what a nice number!) is seen shunting around the liquids transloading terminal in the harbour of Gdynia (the sea starts roughly 250m behind the locomotive). The locomotive belongs to the leasing company DLA and is currently in use by CTL, which does most of the shunting operations in the area.
During my many stays up north, I never managed to see any traffic on this part of the network of the harbour tracks. And thus, I got very excited when I saw that this train is going to be headed right here. After cycling to the railway crossin, from which the picture is taken, I first had to wait roughly 20 minutes before the locomotive finally sorted all the wagons into the destined areas of the terminal, I then entered the crossing and pulled out my camera to snap some pictures.
Shortly after that, I heard a loud "Hey!" from behind my back. It turned out that some police officers, which were stuck in a traffic jam caused by the Stonka's shunting operations didn't really like me taking pictures here. After a not very pleasant conversation, which lasted around 10 minutes, the police finally let go and I could freely roam around the harbour for the hours to come. Here are some of the arguments I used , for when you find yourselves in a simmilar situation ;) (mainly adressed to foreigners):
-The law allows me to photograph anything as long as I am on public ground
-The recently passed laws currently have no power because the minister of national defence didn't publish the exact description of the 'No photo' sign
-I have been roaming around here for the entire day and countless police patrolls and security men passed me without even bothering to ask anything.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus