In the vicinity of the old railroad station, the telephone company ANTEL built a giant skyscraper, designed by the Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott. This happened about 10 years ago.
The building is the highest in the city, and it took as much conversation as concrete to get it built. The idea was to develop the area nearby, which is full of old warehouses, next to the old, beautiful and abandoned railroad station. I'm not really sure it has worked as intended.
In any case I was lucky enough to see an old steam locomotive ready to start, in the small passenger train terminal nearby. I am pretty sure this is about the only passenger train running these days.
It is a tourist attraction now, but it was built as a very workmanlike machine a century ago in good old England, back when they run our railroads like clockwork.
I must come back fully equipped to get more shots of this shining, well restored machine and their crew.
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What nice bw images, and a great place. Look forward to see more from there. I'm guessing from the perspective that you used the 23mm on the Exa.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mike, indeed the 23mm was mounted in all but the last picture.
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