Steamy Landscape

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Bloke with a camera
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Lancashire
One I took yesterday.

Steam train in the Lancashire landscape.

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That's got to be The East Lancashire Railway. My wife and I enjoyed a five star meal on that beautiful railway. I have some lovely keepsake photos but they are all on 35mm and don't ask me how to convert them.

So, in their absence here some steamy photos from my neck of the wood, well not quite, Swanage is about an hour's drive away. The castle in the background of three of the photos is that of Corfe Castle.

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I volunteer on a tourist railroad, and have traveled all over the world riding trains. Here a couple of photos The top one was our local steam engine in California. The center one is the Bodmin & Wentford in Cornwall, and the bottom one the Isle of Wight railway.3004-103340.jpgIMG_8412.JPGIMG_8699.JPG
 
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I volunteer on a tourist railroad, and have traveled all over the world riding trains. Here a couple of photos The tiop one was our local stram engine in California. The center one is the Bodmin & Wentford in Cornwall, and the bottom one the Isle of Wight railway.View attachment 189585View attachment 189586View attachment 189587
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What an adventure, my wife and I have ridden the heritage line dubbed: "The Chattanooga Choo Choo." It's actually part of The Tennessee Valley Railroad. It came as something of a surprise. We had been on the tourist trail visiting the likes of Nashville, Gracelands, Elvis and all that, which had been fascinating and enjoyable. But on a whim I asked my wife if she would mind if we drove out to Chattanooga. She knows that I have been reading on The American Civil War and that there had been a number of battles at Chattanooga, so she indulged me.

It was altogether an unforgettable experience. We crossed a time zone and adjusted our watches, spent an afternoon around Lookout Mountain, then in Chattanooga itself I found out about The Tennessee Valley Railroad. We just had to ride The Chattanooga Choo Choo. It really was a lifetime experience. Our photos of the occasion are all on 35mm, but if you want to see some of the sights and engines steaming through Tennessee, you can, here: https://www.tvrail.com/
 
Thanks all for the kind words.

@horseless carriage - sure is the ELR. On the approach to Irwell Vale station just outside Rawtenstall.

As for the greenery - it'spretty much like that all year round here. Our "Green and Pleasant Land". The trees will lose their leaves in a few weeks but otherwise - we live in a luch green part of the world :)
 
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