30 Sunday Jul 2017
Posted in Germany, Hamburg, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
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Hamburg’s busy main train station, as captured on a sunny morning back in August 2014.
04 Tuesday Jul 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, urban
17 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, transit, transportation, Travel
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Deutsche Bahn, Germany, iPhoneography, photography, rail, railroad, railway, random, sleeping car, train, trains, Travel
This is a view of the sleeping car hallway as we rolled down the track from Köln to Berlin … as seen with my smartphone camera through the peephole in the door. Shot on my travels through Europe this past September.
12 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Frankfurt, Germany, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
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Here’s a view inside the train shed at Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, in some photos taken back in September 2015. I quite like how the roof is reflected in the windshield of the train waiting at Track 21, below.
07 Tuesday Mar 2017
Posted in Alberta, Calgary, Canada, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, urban
29 Sunday Jan 2017
Posted in Germany, Munich, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
12 Saturday Nov 2016
Posted in Berlin, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, transportation, Travel, urban
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Berlin, Germany, photography, photowalk, rail, random, subway, train, trains, transit, transportation, Travel, U-Bahn, urban
Oberbaumbrücke, which crosses the Spree River in Berlin, is a bridge for private vehicular traffic and trains to/from the Warschauer Straße station at the eastern end of the U-Bahn’s Line 1. This photo was snapped on a gorgeous afternoon this past September.
28 Sunday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, transit, Travel, urban
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canada, Hipstamatic, iPhoneography, métro, montreal, photography, quebec, rail, railroad, railway, subway, train, trains, transit, Travel, urban
The Montreal Transit Corp. (Société de transport de Montréal, or STM) recently began revenue service of its next-generation métro cars. Dubbed “Azur”, the STM’s MPM-10 rolling stock is being built by a Bombardier-Alstom consortium. The order is for 468 cars, assembled in nine-car train-sets.
As the newer-model trains are gradually delivered, they will replace vintage MR-63 rolling stock, in service since the Montreal métro opened in 1966.
I only got a brief glimpse of the new Azur train at the Mont-Royal métro station on my last trip to Montreal, on its second day of revenue service. Perhaps I’ll be lucky enough to ride one upon my next visit.
03 Wednesday Feb 2016
Posted in montreal, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, trains, Trains & Transit, Travel, urban
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Art Nouveau, canada, métro, montreal, Paris, photowalk, quebec, rail, railroad, railway, random, RATP, signage, station, train, trains, Travel, typography, urban
When Montreal was planning its métro system some half a century ago, it decided to go with Parisian-style trains fitted with tires in addition to steel wheels.
Consequently, experts from the RATP, the Parisian public transportation authority, acted as consultants throughout the planning and construction stages.
That cross-Atlantic connection is symbolized in one of the entrances to Square Victoria station, which has authentic Art Nouveau signage as you’d find in the French capital, a gift from the RATP first installed in 1967.
30 Saturday Jan 2016
Posted in Netherlands, photography, photowalk, photowalking, random, Rotterdam, trains, Trains & Transit, Travel, urban
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Netherlands, photography, photowalk, rail, railroad, railway, random, Rotterdam, station, train, trains, Travel, urban
This building doesn’t look like much from this angle but to borrow from a popular science-fiction TV series … Rotterdam’s central train station is way bigger from the inside. Its modest facades definitely belie the structure’s cavernous interior.
Ricky Leong 