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Puffing Billy Railway


Puffing Billy Railway
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Copyright: Ralph Starck (HapiSnapa) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 157 W: 7 N: 221] (1723)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-11-12
Categories: Transportation
Camera: Nikon D-70s, Nikon 18-200 f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR, 62mm CPL
Exposure: f/7.1, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-09-12 15:40
Viewed: 163
Points: 12
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Australia.

The railway was originally one of four narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways opened around the beginning of the 20th century. It runs through the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges to Gembrook. The Puffing Billy Railway is kept in operation through the efforts of volunteers of the Puffing Billy Preservation Society, although intensive year-round operations necessitate a small band of paid employees to keep things going behind the scenes.

The railway owns every remaining narrow-gauge locomotive of the former Victorian Railways, and has restored to operating condition all except one, although not all are in serviceable condition at any one time. This fleet comprises five restored and one unrestored 2-6-2T NA class locomotives (3A is unrestored, while 6A, 7A, 8A, 12A and 14A have all been restored), and one G class Garratt (G 42) locomotive. All are restored, or being restored, to represent different eras in their development.

PP work in Photoshop Elements with Topaz Adjust and Topaz Detail Plugins

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  • roges Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 550 W: 0 N: 1043] (5136)
  • [2009-09-13 0:28]

Hallo Ralph,

A very successful.
Very well made.
And the colors are perfect with excellent contrast.
Have a nice Sunday,
Adrian

Hi Ralph

Well composed shot of this train.
Like the colours and contrast in this one, sometimes I think that the colours do not look natural when using Topaz adjust.
TFS

Regards Derek

Hello Ralph,

good work, on this composition, where colors and contrasts give excellent returned for this subject.
Well done
Regards
Laurent

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  • jackal Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 307 W: 3 N: 216] (2887)
  • [2009-09-13 18:01]

Hi Ralph,
great view of the old train, the topaz filter works really well with this kind of shot
cheers
Jack

Lovely Shot.

Pride of Melbourne, Puffing Billy.

hi ralph
great shot lovely subdued colours excellent detail (I can count the rivets),I must get my hands on this topaz it seems to give it an antique look.
regards
jimmy

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