This machine is not a ballast tamper but the car it was pulling seemed to be carrying rails. I imagine this machine is used to carry the rails that a tamping machine has prepared the ballast for. It also has an arm for lifting heavy objects such as sleepers and rails.
Three cars on a side track. Right next to the sidetrack, there is a path that is part of the bike and footpath network of the city.
As you can tell from the cyrillic text on the side of the cars, they are Russian. Finland has the same railway gauge as Russia. That is because first railways in the country were constructed during autonomy under the Russian Empire in the mid 19th century.
Mytäjäinen, the pond close to the railyard seems to have frozen over.
Great snaps...Doesn't look like a lot of snow though? Haven't had much?
Not really snaps because I had to set up the tripod and use exposure times between 2 and 20 seconds.
That's slush and there isn't much of it. It was fortunately not too watery because the night was slightly on the freezing side.
Ah ok, my apology for using the incorrect terminology for photograph. Here it's not uncommon to use the word snap for any still photography that emerges from a camera. Australian people are well known to use slang in every day conversation hence my incorrect terminology for photograph.
You can say photo, shot, pic or whatever. I wasn’t just nit picking because the light was poor and I had to use a tripod as I said. The camera had to remain still for tens of seconds when taking some of those.
The point was not to criticize your language but to tell you more about how I took the pictures.
All good mate, I didn't take it as nit-picking. If I wrote here in the same way I spoke no one wold understand me except Australians. It's steem, a global thing, so there's going to be language differences. As someone who is not a photographer I look at a click like yours and have no clue as to how it was taken so I appreciate the information.