Gone with the smoke

On one rainy August day I was chasing now-well-known-to-you 25-026 2-8-0 steamer with her museum train on the famous Transalpina line from Nova Gorica to Jesenice. Alas, despite the 2,5% grade she was fighting (note the sign - SZ practice is to indicate grade in 1 in 1,000, not 1 in 100, thus 25, and length of grade in meters, in this case 100 meters of downgrade, if going toward the sign), the wet, narrow, and winding back-country road prevented me to catch her coming out of tunnel and across the bridge. What I got was just her smoke, still coming from the tunnel for minutes after she was gone. So, this is my entry to the September Going Away shot

Photographer: misko