Romania Sept 2009

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If you ever wanted to know where wood comes from...
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The log gets sawn into boards thus...
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...by a human pushed bandsaw
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The boards are removed and...
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..then run through a table saw to remove the rough sides (the bark and rounded edges)
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The neat bandsaw blade sharpening device
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Meanwhile, back at the depot, we catch the tail end of a casting call for the new Guy Ritchie movie - Lock, Stock and Two Non-smoking Locomotives. Or maybe we just caught them trying to nick off with that drill press.
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Refilling with sand. Mariuta is an 1910 Orenstein and Koppel 0-8-0, that is a 2-6-0 today due to a broken coupling rod
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Above Valea Scradei
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A nice surprise for David's 61st birthday (the champagne, not the girl) 
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Cheers
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And the winner of 'Man who looks most like his dog is...'
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Sayin' goodbye to my baby 
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At the shop stop
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Its raining again
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But sometimes, the inability to get the obvious easy shot forces us to try silly things that occasionally work out pretty well. I got absolutely soaked taking this, but it was worth it to get something different
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A carpet of fallen leaves
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Distance peg
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Around the corner
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 Racing along
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A nice spot beside the river where we had two runs - one had steam only, the second had off-and-on exhaust plus too much whistle - you can't win.
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Log embankments
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Bearing down - that's one way to deal with those annoying train photographers
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Bursting out of tunnel #1
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Tunnel #1 part 2
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Tunnel #3
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Cross section of the planet you call 'Earth'
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Transcribing logging records. Note those comfy wooden seats.
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Hmmmm, our coupler seems to have fallen out...
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Riverside view
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Of course there was some sun when the diesel arrived. Monster train this - something like 24~26 wagons
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And even the railcar bought some logs home

Home
1. Pre-tour
2. Up and back with Reşiţa
3. The Krauss
5. Mariuta and the Railcar