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Glorious engine. And the sunlight hits it so beautifully.
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It is such fun to go behind one of them, smoke, soot and all. The chook-chook and clacketty-clack and mournful whistle sounds – all magic.
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The “chook-chook”used to come past ‘Toti on weekends. I think it was called the Banana Express.
Does the train from Kloof station still run?
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Really beautiful!
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There’s just something about them, isn’t there?
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Great photos of this wonderful old steam engine. 🙂
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In fact, of inaction and in action!
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Wonderful old relic indeed! Which time of the year?
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April
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what a great shot with the steam just billowing.
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I was pleased with it considering the limitations of my camera.
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Got to love a steamy old relic 🙂
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From childhood! But I suppose kids don’t call a locomotive a ‘chook-chook’ any more!
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Never understood the romance of steam trains: the station perpetually wreathed in gloom; all that smut when you put your head out the window; your hands filthy when you went from one carriage to another from touching the concertina sides every time the train lurched; the mixed smell of wet steam and coal smoke; the diddly-dee-diddly-dum of the old tracks a constant riff; the whistle of the engine either in warning or sheer exuberance…
Oh.
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I sigh with nostalgia at all the things you mention. When one was introduced to them young, they all spelt Adventure with a very large A.
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And I also remember all those associated art forms about the railways: Stevenson poem, Honegger’s musical paean to steam, Monet’s paintings of Paris stations…
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Indeed! I also recall how soothing and soporific it was to have the swaying and the ‘da-deck. da-deck … da-deck, da-deck …’ of the wheels over the gaps in the rails.
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Ah, here it was diddly-dum-diddly-dee or the other way round and sometimes diddlydiddlydiddlydum diddlydum as you went over some points.
And no, that wasn’t the way I taught in front if a class when I went over some points…
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😀
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Sorry to get sidetracked (!) but I presume your colon fourth letter is your attempt at did-dly-D?
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Just following your colon close bracket – your fault!
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Of course we’re blessed with steam railways in Wales (Waleways perhaps?) run by volunteers for visitors, many of them narrow gauge (the trains, not the visitors) and built originally to shunt coal and slate to marshalling yards and thence overseas.
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I read ‘Relic’ and like kragenhai, expected a Selfie. 😉
But the train post is pretty good!
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Ha!
The trip in that train was real fun. Part of the tourist thing was to dump all the passengers, back up some distance, and then come steaming back for photo opportunities. Otherwise that shot would not have been possible.
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If they were ‘Dumped’ this must have given one or two a bit of a start.
”Oi, you lot! End of the line….OUT!”
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Some of them did look a bit lost and bewildered!
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I would love to take a ride in one of those relics!
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It is still possible when in KwaZulu Natal at the right time of the year!
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What time of year? We are thinking of visiting next year.
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I remember as a child watching the steam train from the bridge and once it had arrived, racing across to the otherside of the road to see it puff along. Waving to the passengers as it passed the fields, sitting on the fence and just waiting for the next one to come along.
That does not happen now..what is interesting about electric trains..nowt!
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Actually, trains have a fascination for the young regardless. The grandkids are fascinated even by diesel locomotives.
I still recall the romance of three-day journeys undertaken in trains drawn by steam engines.
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So the challenge is “relic”. Sorry, I can’t take part. I don’t have any selfies.
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Hahahaha! I would also qualify!
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Haha!!
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Very good capture. It’s interesting that you keep a photo equal parts land vs. above/sky.
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Maybe it is part of a split personality! 🙂
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