From above

One sunny sunday afternoon, the aeronautical club of Blankniva (a small village adjacent to Sörlinge)  took on the task to take photographs of the village of Sörlinge from above. A couple of the farmers in the vicinity and above all, T.R Ising, the strong man of Sörlinge, had approached them asking them to do so, because they all wanted nice aerial photos taken of their homes. Of course, money was involved as usual, the poor aeronatical club was in great need of cash to build a new hangar building housing ther newly purchased Cessna airplane, and the old man Ising needed some fresh photos of his estate to perhaps convince the locals the railway should be extended towards his farm (what a nice way to impress women by, isn´t it? "Just take the train to me, and I´ll pick you up at Ising station"). The amount of sugar beets and farming supplies this rail extension was said to transport was of course never specified, at least not during sober conditions. Anyway, the old yellow Piper super cup took to the air and a couple of nice photos were taken during the trip, one of them is shown right below.

Strangely enough, the photos seems to show no landscape features, just the tracks and some buildings, but who is interested in grass and gravel anyway? Another observation (made by the young man Enar Basson) was that the trackwork consists of quite some "adventurous curves", but it can of course be this man is too much affected by his juvenile testosterone?

Anyway, the Sörlinge station can be seen top middle with it´s one and only siding made for loading and unloading goods, primarily food and groceries for the village shop. Down to the left is the metal workshop, Hilding & Son - mekanisk verkstad, with it´s own siding track. Further to the right there is one switch leading to a small trackyard, and the main track goes south and then around back to the main station again. Not visible in this strange and uncanny photo is the small stop at the very bottom to the right just before the track turns back north to Sörlinge. The name of this stop I don´t remember, but sure enough it will be christened in due time.

The track will soon be secured by small pins and my train consisting of a small diesel switcher (on which there is some working progress visible!) and one G-finka, will travel around, for some time, until the hitches are straightened out.

At the end of the day, everyone was pleased by the photos, even old man Ising thought they would serve his purpose in an adequate way. Even though the layout plans pictured in an earlier post in this blog wasn´t possible to achieve in this small size, the "hand of Good" was quite happy with the results. Not a very easy task to perform...