Rails and Clouds
Rails and (real) clouds (and a little bit more) on the opposite side of the entrance to the DIY superstore Bauhaus Halensee (please see the image in the first comment). The entrance to the Bauhaus store is on a fairly high bridge, and the two-story Bauhaus building was built on the premises of the former goods station Halensee which was closed in 1990. The rails on the right of the pretty old signalman's house ("adorned" with the inevitable graffiti) belong to Berlin's extended S-Bahn (city train) network, here the circle line that was completed as early as 1877, but several steps of extension followed. During the Berlin Wall, the circle line was interrupted and was operated independently in both parts of the city.
The red train on the bridge is a regional train. Regional trains are typically built as double-deckers, so people with lots of or large pieces of luggage or who bring their bicycles are supposed to stay downstairs, and everyone else can go upstairs (when you zoom in on the train, you can see a huge bicycle sticker). Well, that's the theory. Regional trains are often overcrowded, especially on the line to the Baltic Sea. The people who visited Germany for the Euro 2024 and travelled by train can now tell their personal stories of the DB's (Deutsche Bahn) "efficiency" and (un)punctuality ;)
In the background, you can see a few Berlin landmarks: the Berliner Funkturm – the city's first radio tower (opened in 1926) – behind our West Berlin "spaceship", the now closed congress centre ICC. The smaller tower behind the ICC belongs to the RBB TV centre (RBB: Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting).
The image is an HDR made of a three photo bracketing (combined in HDR Efex). I tweaked it further in Color Efex and in LR to make it a true slider (but then, all my images are sliders).
HSS, Everyone!
Rails and Clouds
Rails and (real) clouds (and a little bit more) on the opposite side of the entrance to the DIY superstore Bauhaus Halensee (please see the image in the first comment). The entrance to the Bauhaus store is on a fairly high bridge, and the two-story Bauhaus building was built on the premises of the former goods station Halensee which was closed in 1990. The rails on the right of the pretty old signalman's house ("adorned" with the inevitable graffiti) belong to Berlin's extended S-Bahn (city train) network, here the circle line that was completed as early as 1877, but several steps of extension followed. During the Berlin Wall, the circle line was interrupted and was operated independently in both parts of the city.
The red train on the bridge is a regional train. Regional trains are typically built as double-deckers, so people with lots of or large pieces of luggage or who bring their bicycles are supposed to stay downstairs, and everyone else can go upstairs (when you zoom in on the train, you can see a huge bicycle sticker). Well, that's the theory. Regional trains are often overcrowded, especially on the line to the Baltic Sea. The people who visited Germany for the Euro 2024 and travelled by train can now tell their personal stories of the DB's (Deutsche Bahn) "efficiency" and (un)punctuality ;)
In the background, you can see a few Berlin landmarks: the Berliner Funkturm – the city's first radio tower (opened in 1926) – behind our West Berlin "spaceship", the now closed congress centre ICC. The smaller tower behind the ICC belongs to the RBB TV centre (RBB: Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting).
The image is an HDR made of a three photo bracketing (combined in HDR Efex). I tweaked it further in Color Efex and in LR to make it a true slider (but then, all my images are sliders).
HSS, Everyone!