Paris Bastille France September 1969

Detail of SNCF 2-8-2 tank engines 141TB422 & 463 in the platforms at Gare de Bastille.

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Jelltex says:

Great detail, and looks fabulous in mono.
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petet2009 - back for a while [deleted] says:

tres bon
depth of field is - superbe -
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loose_grip_99 says:

Cheers gents. My old Halina 35X sometimes did itself proud!
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Great photos from your archives, LG. It always seems curious that continental locos generally, and French particularly, are so cluttered externally with assorted pipework, components and general ironmongery whereas the British culture was for clean lines and surfaces, with a vastly superior aesthetic effect. This in contrast to other spheres in which Europe excels (they would have us believe) in style and aesthetics. In much younger days, I looked with a degree of contempt on Trix model trains - they were so much more ugly than my Hornby-Dublo A4 and Stanier LMS Pacifics.
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loose_grip_99 says:

Thanks for that camano. I agree about the aesthetics of British loco design but I've still got a soft spot for continental steam. The combination of a more generous loading gauge which leads to more massive engines and all that ironmongery gives a great sense of brute power IMHO.

I was a Triang kid myself so also looked down on Trix but did think that at the time (1950s) Triang were more authentic models than H-D
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SH261049 says:

No need to know when or where this shot was taken, those rooftops are unmistakeably Parisian!
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