09-29-2012, 03:35 PM
Charlie B Wrote:Stein, I envy you the quality of press here. Though I can't read it, the pictures show the true details of the train. I could build models (if I had the talent) from those photographs. Here we would get one picture showing the smoke coming from the stack or the fireman throwing coal in the firebox.
Well, it is the web edition of a regional paper (Romerikes Blad). The paper edition (which has a circulation of 32 000 copies or so), probably only has a one page article with maybe two-three pictures of the event at most (plus a reference to the web edition).
My even more local paper (Indre Akershus Blad, circulation about 7900 copies) also covered the event, and their local photo-journalist in this area got a great picture of normal gauge "Caroline" running on the main on the right, and a double headed narrow gauge passenger train pulled by steam engines "Setskogen" and Prydz on the narrow gauge museum line below and to the left, just outside my home town:
http://www.indre.no/lokale_nyheter/article6260731.ece
The local newspaper further up along the river (Glomdalen, circulation about 18 000) also covered the event when the train came into their district - including a video showing the train in some of the towns further up the line.
http://www.glomdalen.no/kultur/article6260919.ece
The railroad is important to the population in our district - lots of us commute by train into Oslo to work, and there is a need for more capacity. Norwegian State Railroads also took the opportunity to show off their new class 75 commuter trains, which will start running on our line in December this year.
Ralph Wrote:Thanks for the great pictures! Those plush seats really are luxurious. What a way to ride a train!
That's what the mayor of Kongsvinger said too - he said (and got quite a few laughs from experienced commuters) that they were better than the modern commuter trains. I believe him - modern commuter trains are mostly glorified trams on railroad tracks. Efficient, but they lack soul.
Smile,
Stein