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.