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All shots in this set were taken along various freight lines in Queens & Brooklyn.
The latest ones were shot earlier this year during the research & creation of a graffiti book by Joseph Anastasio. If you'd like a well put-together compilation of current graffiti on and along NYC's B&Q rails, grab ahold of a copy of his latest book Brooklyn Queens Freight.
camera: Rolleiflex 6008 Professional
lens: Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2,8 PQ HFT
film: FUJI Neopan 100 Acros
exposure time: 1/60 sec
aperture: f/4
exposure compensation: +/- 0 EV
filter: Hoya Orange G HMC
film development: Color Drack
scan: CanoScan 9000F with SilverFast SE
New rails, rusting outdoors, stacked and ready at the railroad repair yard in Ibarra. Ecuador is rebuilding several scenic routes that had fallen into disrepair over the years and closed. A few passing trains will clean that rust right off.
65 years ago a train with POWs as well as jewish prisoners from KZ Mühldorf (most of them survived Ausschwitz) to KZ Dachau stopped at exactly this dead rails. The responsible SS men set the prisoners free because they thought the war was over. Some other SS men came, shot their comrades and many of the prisoners.
Four days after the masacre of Poing WW2 was over in Europe.
Poing was a backwater then, some of its inhabitants hided the prisoners others hunted them just like some deer.
Today it is a village providing some thousand jobs in multiple high tech companies, which settled there. My lab is 100 meters from this scene. I did not know that for a long time, people do not talk about that.
This would have fit the black white red topic at the thematorium in two different ways.
Maybe its better not to do that for a contest.
Much of the trail follows an old rail bed. It's a nice, flat, elevated place to walk, with woods and water on both sides.
A portion of the rails that Winnipeg's streetcars ran on decades ago has been exposed during street reconstruction at Broadway and Osborne Street. Plans are to have some of the rail removed and donated to a hoped-for museum devoted to streetcars.
Before 1955, Winnipeg Transit and earlier private companies ran streetcars on rail throughout the city as well as electric trolley buses. Electric streetcars began operating in the city in the late 1800s.
After the last streetcar was taken out of service in 1955, rails across the city were either torn out or covered with asphalt as streets were widened.
Abandoned rails sitting near the railroad tracks of the Caldwell County Railroad in Hudson/Whitnel, NC.
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