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BBC - In pictures: The empty railways of America

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  1. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40341771
    Interesting collection.
    Like the online coaling tower; that must have been abandoned for at least 60 years.
     
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    An interesting perspective. The daylight scenario to complement the work of O Winston Link perchance ?
     
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    Maybe, though trains (and especially huge N&W Steam locos) were very central to Links work.
     
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    I had heard about American locos being coaled - mechanically en route - so that's one of the places they did it
     
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    interesting pics but no connection with winston's work. In fact not a loco to be seen and hardly and item of rolling stock.
     
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    I disagree; O Winston Link sought to capture the railway as part of the environment whilst this latest collection seeks to capture the railway within the environment. A subtle but distinct difference that perhaps only photographers will appreciate.
     
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    Probably worth a look at his website http://john-sanderson.com/galleries/railroadlandscape/ and then follow the link to 'terra incognita' and read his own views on his work and Link's.

    For me it's chalk and cheese - Sanderson's style is documentary - photographs of an environment very much 'as is' whereas Link's work is very much contrived and thus almost art produced at night to give him control over his lighting. I'm not sure I would describe one as complementary to the other, just different but no less interesting for that.
     
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    Beat me to it. Anyone who doesn't realise that Winston's work was contrived has miss understood his work.
     
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    Contrived indeed but wonderfully so.
     
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    Undoubtedly.
     
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    hi, thanks for sharing with us this awesome pictures, so I have a question, do you think I can publish the pictures on my blog https://queverenz.com without a permission of bbc?? So is a question because I want publish on my travel blog spanish but I dont want take a surprisa in some months later...
     
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    If I was you I would contact the photographer through his website. Only he can give you permission.
     
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