You either love, or hate, the smell of railways and their things.
Broad gauge, standard gauge, narrow gauge (I particularly like narrow-gauge industrial lines and models).
Steam, diesel, electric.
Passengers & freight.
Grand stations & deserted country platforms.
Mainlines, secondary lines, industrial lines, tiny tramways and abandoned rights of way.
I often refer to it as my any-steel-wheel-on-any-steel-rail obsession!
That musty, medieval smell of steel powder, stones and heavy hammers.
They ooze this essence, along with the smell-in-waiting of aging timber, smokey iron, sagging upholstery & the mingling of a million human skin oils on passenger car window ledges . . .
Railways have fascinated me for as long as I can remember. And I have been a modeller, off and on, for half my life.
Broad gauge, standard gauge, narrow gauge (I particularly like narrow-gauge industrial lines and models).
Steam, diesel, electric.
Passengers & freight.
Grand stations & deserted country platforms.
Mainlines, secondary lines, industrial lines, tiny tramways and abandoned rights of way.
I often refer to it as my any-steel-wheel-on-any-steel-rail obsession!
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