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After rediscovering my enjoyment of train photography, I did some more of it after work yesterday, as a four track freight line is just a few minutes walk from my workplace. Since my bloodwork shows some vitamin D deficiency, standing around in the sun also seemed like a neat idea. Last time I took photos at this particular spot was in July 2011 , so it was high time to do it again!

What we have here is a G 1206 road switcher hauling some self unloading cars of what I presume to be chalk. These locomotives used to be built by Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK), but are now sold by Vossloh, who took over the company in 1998. This particular example used to be owned by Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH, which would translate to Railway and Port company Ltd, who were merged into ThyssenKrupp Steel in 2011. As the name implies, they offered a variety of freight services, mostly centered around larger river ports, such as the one in Duisburg Walsum, while also providing services to large industrial customers. Since the new owners were apparently not very keen on repainting the locomotives into a new livery, they just left them as they were, only sticking their logo onto the sides of the cab where the EH logo used to be.

I do kinda like the very utilitarian appearance of these diesel hydraulic machines. Especially at slightly higher focal length and tele compression, all those straight edges line up so nicely with the edges of the photo, it's just pleasing to the eye, at least to me. I'm attempting to keep a closer eye on composition with my newer photos, making sure that I don't just zoom in on the locomotive like crazy, keeping a bit of the surrounding scenery visible, but not so much that it distracts from the train being the main motif. Looking back at some of my older works, I find it rather cringy how bad some of them were, and how wildly the quality fluctuated. But I assume that this is often the case for just about everyone when going through their earlier works.

I also want to get away from my stupid habit of constantly talking about how boring I find some trains that I photograph, I do realize it's kind of annoying.

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After rediscovering my enjoyment of train photography, I did some more of it after work yesterday, as a four track freight line is just a few minutes walk from my workplace. Since my bloodwork shows some vitamin D deficiency, standing around in the sun also seemed like a neat idea. Last time I took photos at this particular spot was in July 2011 , so it was high time to do it again!

What we have here is a G 1206 road switcher hauling some self unloading cars of what I presume to be chalk. These locomotives used to be built by Maschinenbau Kiel (MaK), but are now sold by Vossloh, who took over the company in 1998. This particular example used to be owned by Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH, which would translate to Railway and Port company Ltd, who were merged into ThyssenKrupp Steel in 2011. As the name implies, they offered a variety of freight services, mostly centered around larger river ports, such as the one in Duisburg Walsum, while also providing services to large industrial customers. Since the new owners were apparently not very keen on repainting the locomotives into a new livery, they just left them as they were, only sticking their logo onto the sides of the cab where the EH logo used to be.

I do kinda like the very utilitarian appearance of these diesel hydraulic machines. Especially at slightly higher focal length and tele compression, all those straight edges line up so nicely with the edges of the photo, it's just pleasing to the eye, at least to me. I'm attempting to keep a closer eye on composition with my newer photos, making sure that I don't just zoom in on the locomotive like crazy, keeping a bit of the surrounding scenery visible, but not so much that it distracts from the train being the main motif. Looking back at some of my older works, I find it rather cringy how bad some of them were, and how wildly the quality fluctuated. But I assume that this is often the case for just about everyone when going through their earlier works.

I also want to get away from my stupid habit of constantly talking about how boring I find some trains that I photograph, I do realize it's kind of annoying.