Premier Classe at night

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fanie kleynhans
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Premier Classe at night

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Hi all, here are some pics i took of the Premier Classe train recently while at Albertinia, the first 2 in Feb and the last 2 this past weekend. Each time there were 14 coaches, locos the first time were 2 x 35, then 3 x 33 and the last one 2 x 35.
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Rolling past the station building
Rolling past the station building
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Over the Gouritz bridge
Over the Gouritz bridge
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Just outside town
Just outside town
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Entering Albertinia
Entering Albertinia
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Nathan Berelowitz
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Re: Premier Classe at night

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Really interesting exposures. Some nice effects for a travel type poster.
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Derek Walker
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The Aliens have landed!!! and are shooting at us with lasers!
Great set of pics, occasionally you need to take things like that just for fun.
Not quite on the rails.
Check out my train vids. http://www.youtube.com/user/nixops
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Stefan Andrzejewski
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Great photos Fanie. I enjoy messing around at night with time exposures. Judging by the length of the stars in the first two pics your shutter must have been open for around 30 seconds.
fanie kleynhans
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Re: Premier Classe at night

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Stefan i had a look at the shutter times for these pics and they are in this order: 81, 103, 113 and 116 seconds.
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Stefan Andrzejewski
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Almost 2 minutes thats amazing
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Fanie what time was the Premiere Classe passing thru must have been 2am roughly
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fanie kleynhans
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Re: Premier Classe at night

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Justin it came through twice at about 23:00 and once at about midnight the 3 times that i was there.
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