SteelWheels.Photography

Frederick Manfred Simon ~ Railway Industry Photographer & Multidiscipline Creative

SteelWheels.Photography

Frederick Manfred Simon ~ Railway Industry Photographer & Multidiscipline Creative

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The Images

“IRON GIANT” My youngest son Andrew walks by while I’m post-processing this image and says, “Looks like the Iron Giant,” me, “Perfect, that’s the title!” The unwitting, innocently ironic observation is spot on. A reference to the cult classic, co

“Sippy Cup Takes Wilbur Hill” You say “Sippy what?!” Sippy Cup! Yeah, well that’s our diminutive for our colleague Ryan Reierson. Yup. Lilliputian and livin' the dream while breakin’ off his nineteenth year of life on his way to becoming a certif

“The Hoghead and His Instrument” Can you feel it? In his intensity? Can you see it? In his face? At once exuding myopic focus, acute awareness, and singular concentration on the task at hand, in hand. And what about his, by today’s standards, anc

“Ex Oriente Lux: Govan Crepusculum” Heaven’s peaceful eye, rising, faithfully, effortlessly, paints its ephemeral pastel chef d’oeuvre as wispy clouds float across its crepuscular creation on a stiff morning breeze. At Fahrenheit 32 - on the cus

“Thirty Second at Tokio” Well not quite, but less than minutes for sure. The sun was dropping quietly quite quickly as we contemplated what angle might produce the desired effect, i.e., the sweetness of glint. It was not to be. She beat us, and our

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“Hot Engine” The 70s and 80s novel solid-state Dash-2 card by today’s microprocessor standard is a clunky, rudimentary piece of modular electrical gear that acts as the “brain” of thousands of so equipped EMD locomotives found in over twenty vari

“Hang-Ten High” Three-to-four and this coming-off-the-Columbia-Sub stack and its hangin-ten-high crew wait for a favorable approach at Latah Junction as the clouds drift swift overhead on a quickening breeze and freezing morn, still, the stars on

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