Looking back on ourselves

This is one of the coolest pictures. I took this from our carriage in the train, and as far as I remember, I am looking back on our own train. Remembering, of course, it was taken with a film camera, in 1987, and scanned. The camera was probably, at that stage a point and shoot one. Nothing flash.

Lithgow Zig Zag Railway

February 16th 2008
24th January 1987 The Zig Zag Railway was built between 1866 and 1869, and acclaimed a major engineering feat of its time. It was constructed to enable produce to be taken to Sydney from the prosperous farming areas beyond the Blue Mountains and to develop the coal and iron ore deposits found in the Lithgow Valley. The prodigious feat of bringing the railway from the top of the mo ... read more

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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