Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: City Elephant

I'm not sure why I opted to keep this shot. It's a bit too blurry to fully satisfy me, but I think the combination of the trainshed and the City Elefant, even if I can't read the number, combined with the passengers on the left, makes for a nice scene. This was as I was waiting for my train to Brno.

Here's an alternate shot of the City Elefant.

In January, a lot of City Elefants were still working the Praha Hlavni Nadrazi-Benesov u Prahy locals, although I haven't seen them much lately.

I think the lighting in this shot, looking north, is better.

Most of the services when I first visited Cernosice five years ago were Class 451 and 452 "Pantograph" EMU's, but most of the services have now been upgraded to Class 471 "City Elephant" EMU's, which are are technically called "City Elefant" EMU's to make the name more phonetic to Czech speakers.

Later during the Slapy trip, we had to stop at this crossing. Regrettably, I don't remember where this was, as I consider this one of my favorite train photos this year. The location is made especially mysterious by the fact that the nearest electrified line to Slapy is the Prague-Ceske Budejovice mainline, which doesn't have too many City Elephants running on it yet.

Here's the train that I took home. Worth noting in this photo is the ad on the side of the train, for a movie, Gympl, which glorifies grafitti vandals who trash trains. It's typical of the kinds of self-defeating ads that public transport services accept, and begs the question once again of why they're tolerated.

I shot most of my Kutna Hora pictures on Ektachrome, and from the look of how grainy these shots are, grainier than any slides I've ever done, I'm assuming it was Elite 400, although I seem to remember it being 200. I really doubt that 200 could look this bad, though, at least at full resolution. Oddly, the main reason I'm not posting more of these is that most of them are going to end up in an NRHS slide show sooner or later. They're the main shots I have of this trip, so I'm hoping that the story and the subject matter will be more important than resolution....

This was, unless I'm mistaken, the start of my Kutna Hora trip, although I note that the number on this Class 471 "City Elephant" EMU doesn't match the one from my arrival photo. I don't remember which one I actually took, or if it was a twin set.