Malakwal encore, SGS volcano on the Sargodha ballast. December the 14th 1995.
One last picture to indulge in, it is time to return to the present..
On the first full day here the SGS 2395 was engaged in the shunting of loaded ballast wagons within the station yard, I have a photo of it doing so. So imagine my surprise when it gets the signal and it sets out to pull out onto the main..I run, and manage to get to the far side of the loco shed, because I have seen the goat herder resting under the shade of a solitary banyan tree. This will make the prefect picture if I can get there..The trains progress is very slow and very audible, each laboured beat blasting out from the cylinders, forced upwards through the blast pipe and into the smokebox, throwing the billowing oil smoke skywards as the crew try and coax as much power as they can out of their ancient beast and get their train on the move. The loco is sure footed and does not slip, but it requires all of its power to move a train like this.
Despite the advantage of youth, my chest is heaving too, but still, out of breath I make it and compose the perfect picture. Setting the zoom at 135mm frames the train between the branches and the goat herder perfectly. Click, one shot, wind on the film. But you can't mitigate for camera shake! I already know it. Not for the first time I am too out of breath to reasonably take a picture. I can move position a little though, swing the zoom back to 70mm, and compose myself and the photo to take this. Will I get another chance? I will but the goat herder does not return, so the original composition is lost.
SGS 2395 pre boiler washout! Sargodha ballast, setting out from Malakwal, December the 14th 1995.
Malakwal encore, SGS volcano on the Sargodha ballast. December the 14th 1995.
One last picture to indulge in, it is time to return to the present..
On the first full day here the SGS 2395 was engaged in the shunting of loaded ballast wagons within the station yard, I have a photo of it doing so. So imagine my surprise when it gets the signal and it sets out to pull out onto the main..I run, and manage to get to the far side of the loco shed, because I have seen the goat herder resting under the shade of a solitary banyan tree. This will make the prefect picture if I can get there..The trains progress is very slow and very audible, each laboured beat blasting out from the cylinders, forced upwards through the blast pipe and into the smokebox, throwing the billowing oil smoke skywards as the crew try and coax as much power as they can out of their ancient beast and get their train on the move. The loco is sure footed and does not slip, but it requires all of its power to move a train like this.
Despite the advantage of youth, my chest is heaving too, but still, out of breath I make it and compose the perfect picture. Setting the zoom at 135mm frames the train between the branches and the goat herder perfectly. Click, one shot, wind on the film. But you can't mitigate for camera shake! I already know it. Not for the first time I am too out of breath to reasonably take a picture. I can move position a little though, swing the zoom back to 70mm, and compose myself and the photo to take this. Will I get another chance? I will but the goat herder does not return, so the original composition is lost.
SGS 2395 pre boiler washout! Sargodha ballast, setting out from Malakwal, December the 14th 1995.