Zalog in Snow and Cold

After the extremely warm and long autumn, on Friday, December 11th, the wind from the northeast plains brought us the cold and the snow. Next morning we woke into the 3 inches of powder snow and -12 deg. C or 10 deg F cold. After the few successive, almost snow-less winters or with just heavy and wet snow, this was great opportunity to get some snow dust lifting action on the tracks of the Slovenian Railroads (SZ). I grabbed the camera and set off to the nearby suburban town of Zalog where is the biggest SZ classification yard right next to the double track mainline, part of the two European railroad corridors extending from the southern France across the northern Italy, Slovenia, Austria to Slovakia or Ukraine, and from Germany to all of the Balkan states. Alas, the weekend and the economy crises have greatly reduced the usual number of trains which on the on workdays in better times scored up to the 150 trains per day.

Next day the snow was already blown off the tracks and on Monday it was 14 deg C or 57 deg F and raining. The winter action, at least for quite a while, was over.

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• Railroads
• railways
• winter
• snow
• cold
• Slovenia
• Slovenske zeleznice
• SZ
• sneg
• zima
• mraz
• Zalog

[cn854]

One hand on the video camera and one hand on the DSLR????

Great stuff Misko!

MAP

[fujsov]

Actually, Mark - when I was clicking I had both hands on old 5D, while the new one was rolling on it;s own ;-). That's why I had to make the cut at Manifest from Pragersko scene as the train didn;t continued down the mainline as I expected, and I was too late to pan.

[ppantos100]

Excellent 10/10 !!!

[jamile9292]

Very very good, great image quality. Liked

the shots taken in the yard. Is Zalog a

flat yard or does it have a hump? Any idea

how many cars are switched a day? Thanks again.

[timh97sg1]

amazing!!

[LoisJAbel]

Great, indeed!

[dashloc]

Pretty cool thanks for share, just love watch trains surfing throught the snow :)