By Li Yingxue | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-20 10:44 Share CLOSE A selection of pictures of trains and the stunning locations through which they travel in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, as taken by train enthusiast Guan Junhong, 22. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Photographer who snaps locomotives hopes that his hobby will provide a platform for a future career, Li Yingxue reports.
It is a train of events, literally, that has changed his life. Traveling on them, taking photos and discussing the latest information about them is an indispensable part of Guan Junhong s existence. Their arrivals and departures are the timetable around which his life revolves.
Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living.
The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors arenât full size â and yet theyâre way too large to fit on the kind of train set that a child, or a dedicated rail fan of any age, might set up in the basement rec room.
Boyd works at Titan Trains, a small factory tucked away inside a mostly empty industrial building across from the historic Boones Mill train depot, part of a complex that also holds the town government offices.
The business makes one-eighth-scale model locomotives, train cars and tracks. The company also bills its products as âlarge-scale ride-on trains,â because you can in fact ride on them. A Titan Trains locomotive is comparable in size to a soapbox go-kart.
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