Great Central Railway Rothley Leicestershire 28th October 2015

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Thanks June.

Telephoto shots do make trackwork look really scary at times.

It looks like a rough old ride doesn't it?

Nice shot, surprised to see a caboose on the end.

Thanks Don. It's a demonstration freight on our preserved line so it's recreating the not-too-distant past when brake vans/cabooses were normal.

I wondered since American companies had stopped using cabooses in the mid 1980's.

Is there anything in this shot that dates it to 2015? It looks so totally authentic. The fresh, clean state of the ground signal is maybe a slight clue that it's not BR infrastructure but, other than that, and the clean yellow panel on the loco, this could easily be the late-1960s. The long lens has maybe made the track appear poorer than it actually is but there were many branches in Central Scotland that looked worse than this in the 1960s/70s. Nicely done.