This blog needs a little more colour and movement. But before I do either, I think I need to try B&W and stills. So, as a slight diversion, here's the first photograph that I know I took at Eumungerie.
It was May 1979 and I was the proud half-owner of a new Praktica SLR camera - thanks Mum and Dad. I also wish to thank those craftsmen of the former German Democratic Republic for making a half-decent camera.
My failing memory tells me tonight that this was the first moving image captured by this junior lensman. So, congratulations to 4911 and its motley collection of empty bogie wheat wagons which were on their way up the line for refilling. You made my day - not the least because I think this was a Saturday and trains never ran on weekends in those days.
At the time I photographed the train, it was just another tuscan (indian red, actually) diesel, doing something that steam did much better only a decade previous. Now when I look at this photograph, I can still smell the grain wagons as they passed, still feel the burrs from the grass. Even the wave from the crew as they kept a weather eye on that 15 year-old in his T-shirt, stubbies and thongs.
There is much more in this photograph, which I will doubtless return to discuss in future entries. Until then, its time to return to a point 31 years hence.
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