An unusual site as no trains are moving in this panoramic photo shot from the end of one of the platforms at the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (train station) in Frankfurt, West Germany in the fall of 1985. I lived outside of Frankfurt from 1978-1981 and went back on photo assignments for the Air Force almost every year afterwards until I retired in 1995. The Frankfurt station was one of my favorite locations to photograph trains and on many weekends, you could find me hanging out here shooting photos. This shot was from one of my trips in 1985 and since this station is super busy with 25 mainline platforms in the station! During the time I lived in Germany is probably where I really started photographing trains as I traveled by train all the time there and had some great friends, The Grant Family, that were also into trains. We typically were off somewhere in Europe on many weekends, and I fell into a deeper love and appreciation for them during my time there. According to The Man in Seat 61 website: Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof (usually abbreviated to Hbf = main station in German) is an impressive terminus at the center of the busy city of Frankfurt, Germany, a beautiful station dating from 1888, although the halls either side of the main hall were added in 1924 Photo was shot with a Fuji 6X17 Panoramic Camera with a 105mm lens. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #Germany #FrankfurtHBF

Panoramic photo shot at the Frankfurt in Frankfurt, West Germany

An unusual site as no trains are moving in this panoramic photo shot from the end of one of the platforms at the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof (train station) in Frankfurt, West Germany in the fall of 1985.

I lived outside of Frankfurt from 1978-1981 and went back on photo assignments for the Air Force almost every year afterwards until I retired in 1995.

The Frankfurt station was one of my favorite locations to photograph trains and on many weekends, you could find me hanging out here shooting photos. This shot was from one of my trips in 1985 and since this station is super busy with 25 mainline platforms in the station! During the time I lived in Germany is probably where I really started photographing trains as I traveled by train all the time there and had some great friends, The Grant Family, that were also into trains. We typically were off somewhere in Europe on many weekends, and I fell into a deeper love and appreciation for them during my time there.

According to The Man in Seat 61 website: Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof (usually abbreviated to Hbf = main station in German) is an impressive terminus at the center of the busy city of Frankfurt, Germany, a beautiful station dating from 1888, although the halls either side of the main hall were added in 1924

Photo was shot with a Fuji 6X17 Panoramic Camera with a 105mm lens.

During WW II, Japan constructed this meter-gauge railway line from Ban Pong, Thailand to Thanbyuzayat, Burma. The line passing through the scenic Three Pagodas Pass runs for 250 miles. This is now known as the Death Railway. The railway line was meant to transport cargo daily to India, to back up their planned attack on India. The construction was done using POWs and Asian slave laborers in unfavorable conditions. The work started in October 1942 and was completed in a year. Due to the difficult terrain, thousands of laborers lost their lives. It is believed that one life was lost for each sleeper (tie) laid in the track. At the nearby Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, around 7,000 POWs, who sacrificed their lives in the railway construction, are buried. Another 2,000 are laid to rest at the Chungkai Cemetery. The River Kwai Bridge became famous all over the world, when it was featured in movies and books. The cliff-hugging tracks and the natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and valleys were well captured in the David Lean movie. This is another scan from a Fuji 6x17 film camera that I’ve shot in the past and on Saturday’s at 5pm CST I plan on highlighting some of these images and others shot on slide film, so check back then to see more images from around the world from my past travels! Fuji 6x17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #panphotography #6x17photography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #Thailand #deathrailway

Bridge over the River Kwai at Kanchanaburi, Thailand

The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) locomotive 3004 heads across the Bridge over the River Kwai, around 1988, as it heads to the Kanchanaburi Station on part of the original 258-mile (415-kilometer) long Thai-Burma Railway.

During WW II, Japan constructed this meter-gauge railway line from Ban Pong, Thailand to Thanbyuzayat, Burma. The line passing through the scenic Three Pagodas Pass runs for 250 miles. This is now known as the Death Railway.

The railway line was meant to transport cargo daily to India, to back up their planned attack on India. The construction was done using POWs and Asian slave laborers in unfavorable conditions. The work started in October 1942 and was completed in a year. Due to the difficult terrain, thousands of laborers lost their lives. It is believed that one life was lost for each sleeper (tie) laid in the track.

At the nearby Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, around 7,000 POWs, who sacrificed their lives in the railway construction, are buried. Another 2,000 are laid to rest at the Chungkai Cemetery.

The River Kwai Bridge became famous all over the world, when it was featured in movies and books. The cliff-hugging tracks and the natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and valleys were well captured in the David Lean movie.

This is another scan from a Fuji 6×17 film camera that I’ve shot in the past and on Saturday’s at 5pm CST I plan on highlighting some of these images and others shot on slide film, so check back then to see more images from around the world from my past travels!

Fuji 6×17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then.

Santa Fe Railway 142 leads four war bonnets as they pull east through Tehachapi Loop with a “Piggyback” trailer train sometime in the late 1980’s, as they head for Tehachapi, California, and points east on the UP Mojave Subdivision, through the Tehachapi Pass. When I lived in southern California between 1981-1995, not counting a break where I lived in the Philippines for about 1.5 years, I spent a lot of time in these mountains and Cajon Pass, around the San Bernardino mountains! Over the coming year I’ll be scanning images from these and other locations and sharing them on Saturday evenings. According to Wikipedia: The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral,[1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert. Rising at a steady two-percent grade, the track gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation and makes a 1,210-foot-diameter (370 m) circle.[1][2] Any train that is more than 3,800 feet (1,200 m) long—about 56 boxcars—passes over itself going around the loop Fuji 6x17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #panphotography #6x17photography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #TehachapiLoop #SantaFe

Santa Fe Railway 142 leads four war bonnets as they pull east through Tehachapi Loop

Santa Fe Railway 142 leads four war bonnets as they pull east through Tehachapi Loop with a “Piggyback” trailer train sometime in the early to mid 1990’s, as they head for Tehachapi, California, and points east on the UP Mojave Subdivision, through the Tehachapi Pass.

When I lived in southern California between 1981-1995, not counting a break where I lived in the Philippines for about 1.5 years, I spent a lot of time in these mountains and Cajon Pass, around the San Bernardino mountains! Over the coming year I’ll be scanning images from these and other locations and sharing them on Saturday evenings.

According to Wikipedia: The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral,[1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.

Rising at a steady two-percent grade, the track gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation and makes a 1,210-foot-diameter (370 m) circle.[1][2] Any train that is more than 3,800 feet (1,200 m) long—about 56 boxcars—passes over itself going around the loop

Fuji 6×17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then.

I took a ride along the Thai-Burma Railway (Death Railway) – by special diesel railcar 171 back around 1988 where I rode on nearly 50 miles (77 kilometers) of the original 258-mile (415-kilometer) long Thai-Burma Railway. The roundtrip train trip from Kanchanaburi Station, across the River Kwai Bridge to Nam Tok Station took about two hours and crossed though some of the most scenic territory in all of Thailand. My trip, however, took a bit longer as I got off at Nam Tok to photograph scenes such as this one of trains. During WW II, Japan constructed this meter-gauge railway line from Ban Pong, Thailand to Thanbyuzayat, Burma. The line passing through the scenic Three Pagodas Pass runs for 250 miles. This is now known as the Death Railway. The railway line was meant to transport cargo daily to India, to back up their planned attack on India. The construction was done using POWs and Asian slave laborers in unfavorable conditions. The work started in October 1942 and was completed in a year. Due to the difficult terrain, thousands of laborers lost their lives. It is believed that one life was lost for each sleeper laid in the track. At the nearby Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, around 7,000 POWs, who sacrificed their lives in the railway construction, are buried. Another 2,000 are laid to rest at the Chungkai Cemetery. This line has the River Kwai Bridge which became famous all over the world, when it was featured in movies and books. The cliff-hugging tracks and the natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and valleys were well captured in the David Lean movie. I plan on publishing scans from images that I’ve shot in the past on Saturday’s at 5pm CST so check back then to see more images from around the world from my past travels! Fuji 6x17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #jimpearsonphotography #panphotography #6x17photography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #Thailand #deathrailway

I took a ride along the Thai-Burma Railway (Death Railway) back around 1988…

I took a ride along the Thai-Burma Railway (Death Railway) – by special diesel railcar 171 back around 1988 where I rode on nearly 50 miles (77 kilometers) of the original 258-mile (415-kilometer) long Thai-Burma Railway. The roundtrip train trip from Kanchanaburi Station, across the River Kwai Bridge to Nam Tok Station took about two hours and crossed though some of the most scenic territory in all of Thailand. My trip, however, took a bit longer as I got off at Nam Tok to photograph scenes such as this one of trains.

During WW II, Japan constructed this meter-gauge railway line from Ban Pong, Thailand to Thanbyuzayat, Burma. The line passing through the scenic Three Pagodas Pass runs for 250 miles. This is now known as the Death Railway.

The railway line was meant to transport cargo daily to India, to back up their planned attack on India. The construction was done using POWs and Asian slave laborers in unfavorable conditions. The work started in October 1942 and was completed in a year. Due to the difficult terrain, thousands of laborers lost their lives. It is believed that one life was lost for each sleeper laid in the track.

At the nearby Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, around 7,000 POWs, who sacrificed their lives in the railway construction, are buried. Another 2,000 are laid to rest at the Chungkai Cemetery.

This line has the River Kwai Bridge which became famous all over the world, when it was featured in movies and books. The cliff-hugging tracks and the natural beauty of the surrounding mountains and valleys were well captured in the David Lean movie.

I plan on publishing scans from images that I’ve shot in the past on Saturday’s at 5pm CST so check back then to see more images from around the world from my past travels!

Fuji 6×17, Fuji 105mm lens, other exposure information wasn’t recorded back then.