City of Truro by Staticon

Photography • Transportation • posted on Oct 12, 2008

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Back in September 2007, I posted a picture of the footplate of the City of Truro locomotive. I promised to post a picture of the train itself just as soon as I found where I'd put it. Well, I found it this morning so here it is. :-) The text of original posting is apt here as well so I quote: Back in 1984, I took a trip to the Railway Museum in Swindon. One of the main features was the locomotive, City Of Truro'. Whilst the locomotive was impressive in the museum, it was also rather sad to see it just sitting there but, happily, a month after I took this, it was removed and made ready for steaming again. As far as I know, it is still doing the rounds of the various private lines. I had a rather slow film in the camera at the time this shot was taken and, when I went to take the picture, I discovered that I'd forgotten to bring my flash gun and tripod. I ended up hand-holding the camera at shutter speeds of one fifteenth of a second to get my pictures. I was well pleased with the results and, after that, always tried available light shots with slow shutter speeds. Not all of them worked but, on the whole, I got reasonably good at it. :-) If you want a quick peek at the footplate, click the thumbnail.