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Monthly Archives: August 2017
Digital art by Josef Bsharah – inspired by Hong Kong?
I recently came across the digital artwork created by Josef Bsharah and thought to myself – I swear this is a photo of the streets of Hong Kong.
Scale model of a MTR works train
Found over at Wikipedia – a scale model of a MTR works train, located in their head office in Kowloon Bay.
Photo by TeaLaiumens, via Wikimedia Commons
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, locomotive, maintenance, Mass Transit Railway, model trains, MTR, rail operations, railway, scale models
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