howie’s halfpipe

Yesterday was steam train day.
something to do with 100 years of hornsby shire being a shire. I dont really care what the reason for it was i just like steam trains.
There was me and jenny, joshy, sam and julian. And what fun we had. Well at first it wasnt fun, there was a stupid cityrail man at waitara who wouldnt shut up on the PA system, and talked really slow as if everyone on the platform was an idiot. “S-t-a-n-d—–b-e-h-i-n-d—-t-h-e—-y-e-l-l-o-w—–l-i-n-e——–. He was anoying.

Eventually the train came. one end had an old diesel engine and the other was the steam engine. the diesel pulled the train one way and then the steam loco pulled us back the other way. Because there is no place on the north shore line to turn a locco around.

here is the train approaching the station, along with sam’s head.

the steam engine

all of us. (except me)

this isnt the most exciting photo but it is the 2,000th photo taken on my camera.
Not a bad effort only had the camera since august last year.

this is my favourite photo of the day. the new train going past the old. with a nice reflection.
sometimes i think to myself “howie you should be a photographer”

there are more photos but thats enough for now.
It was a very fun morning we where all silly and made friends with the little old men who work on the train.