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Wildlife & Railway Art - Frédérique Lucas

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Art and other miscellaneous ramblings. I wish the railway to wildlife balance was even, but I have to admit it's mostly wildlife for now. If you want trains and nothing but trains, see my sideblog.

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It is so cool to see the locomotives you work with, back on a tumblr blog you've been following for years. This is them! These are my old ladies!!

This photo was taken during Terug naar Toen ("Back to Then"), our yearly festival where basically every engine that's capable of running gets to run. It's the biggest thing for us and we always work towards it. This girl is one of my favourites, even though I've never gotten to do fire a full day on her.

Known to us as "The Grey", she is one of few WWII locomotives that has remained as built (most underwent a serious rebuilt some time after WWII when it turned out their time of service would be considerably longer than originally thought). Her boiler cladding and cab roof still bear scars from aerial machine gun fire, and her chimney still has bullet holes in it. She's a very impressive piece of living history.

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Evening before ‘Back to Then,’ Beekbergen, 1 Sept 2017

Some photography for a change! I volunteer at a heritage railway in the Netherlands, the Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij (VSM). We maintain a fleet of 19 steam engines and more than 20 diesels. Every year, in the first weekend of September, we organise a big event/gala called ‘Back to Then.’ Every engine that can ride will be fired up, and together they pull passenger and goods trains all weekend long. An amazing event, full of steam and atmosphere... when you hear the locos wailing in the distance it feels like going back 50 or 100 years in time.

Here some Friday afternoon atmosphere. All engines (and their crew) prepare to ride out together, to a small station where they will spend the night. 64 sighs, and she isn’t the only one...

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