Netherlands
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Nederlandse Spoorwegen and a Gap in the Sky.
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Finding the Light and the Rain I saw an opening in the sky to west. So I made my way to the nearest set of tracks. The Netherlands is criss-crossed with busy electrified lines. And this mainline near Tilburg looked…
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Nederlandse Spoorwegen at Den Bosch
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A Look at the the Other ‘NS.” Fish with man-legs, scenes of torment and pleasure gardens, along with medieval apocalyptic visions were among the topics painted by Jheronimus van Aken aka Hieronymus Bosch who hailed from the Dutch city of…
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Rotterdam Metro
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August 2014. On my short spin on the Rotterdam Metro I made these photos with my Lumix LX7. It’s amazing how well digital cameras perform when photographing in the difficult lighting of subterranean railways. This was just brief glimpse of…
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Rotterdam Centraal Station
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New Railway Station for Modern Metropolis. Opened earlier this year. Rotterdam Centraal doesn’t look like any other railway station on the outside. (Although on the inside it reminded me of the entrance hall at Warsaw Central.) Like much of Rotterdam’s…
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City of the Future: Rotterdam
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August 2014. I visited Rotterdam for an afternoon and evening. This is considered The Netherland’s architechtural capital and certainly features a wide variety of unusual modern buildings. Rotterdam had been left in ruins after the Second World War, and over…
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Deutsche Bahn Freight near Dordrecht Zuid, Netherlands, September 2013
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Red Electric in Soft Sun Light. Thunderstorms had blown through earlier in the afternoon. Then the sun beamed. All the while Netherlandse Spoorwagen’s double-track north-south mainline south of Dordrecht was saturated with an unceasing parade of trains. (See my…
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Thalys High Speed Train, The Netherlands, September 2013
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Presenting a Modern Railway Vision. I exposed this image of a Thalys at speed crossing a arched bridge over Hollands Diep minutes before the fading orange ball of the sun melted into North Sea coastal fog. Thalys is an…
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Netherlandse Spoorwagen Koploper near Dordrecht Zuid, September 2013
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A Distinctively Dutch Train. Earlier this month (September 2013), I traveled with an Irish railway photographer to the Netherlands. We spent a few sunny hours at a pedestrian/bicycle crossing near Dordrecht Zuid on a busy north-south line. This was one…