On Video: The Humble Shunter…
I enjoy trying to conceive of ways to express and explain my passion for model railways. It’s another muse, I suppose, and one I return to from time to time. So excuse the self indulgence - and yet more of this latest Class 03…
In this short film I try to express something of that passion in both words, deliberately scripted this time, and the way the video uses different perspectives… I hope it is both a pleasant interlude and perhaps, also, a little thought provoking. Why do you create model railways? Until next time, more soon…
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Hi James
ReplyDeleteThank you for this thoughtful and mindful piece. Great production as always. However while this was in the model context for me the shunter can never be “humble”. Without the shunter arguably there could be not be a railway.
Perhaps since I was never a trainspotter, mainline, and especially passenger, railways leave me cold. The sight of a train passing at speed or a Pacific preserved on a heritage line does nothing for me.
However the sight and sound of a Barclay 0-6-0ST, a Ruston 165DE, or an EMD SW1200 or a GP7 for instance were (and are) worth travelling to see in their native environment. To hear the flanges squealing, the crash of couplings, the roar of a locomotive a work, and understand what is being done not just for fleeting moment but as long as you are allowed to stay finds a place in my mind. It is ,I guess, what I am trying to reproduce in some way in my modelling of a railway
Best regards
Alan