It had delivered a fully-laden coal train to the Siekierki power station. The coal line (nearest the camera) is single-track and unelectrified, unlike the main Warsaw-Radom line behind it. The TEM2s are heavy-duty freight haulers, and are nicknamed 'Tamaras' by Polish train spotters. They run lighter on the tracks than the older Russian-built ST44 diesel locos also seen hammering the line on the Okęcie - Siekierki coal run. Trains heading north run slowly, as the approach the busy level crossing at ul. Baletowa is entirely unguarded; there's much hooting of loco whistles to warn drivers of approaching trains.
Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Trundling Tamara
At the end of ul. Jeziorki, turn left into the footpath bit of ul. Kórnicka towards the railway tracks. This used to be a level crossing for farm traffic, now abandoned. And a good vantage point for watching the trains go by. This morning, en route for work, I was lucky enough to catch this Russian-made diesel shunter (TEM2-189) running light between W-wa Jeziorki and W-wa Dawidy.
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The photograph of the shunter is a meditation on time and its nature and movement. Stare at the front of the shunter and it gives the impression that it is moving, ever-so slowly. Time Transfixed! Like the Magritte painting of the same name with the train emerging from the fireplace. It's a great photograph with its backdrop of greying abstraction and sepia-like infinity.The left foreground - a blotch of darkness in a study of monochrome watercolour wash. Watch the shunter shunt forward ever, so ever-so slowly.
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