Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:ONCF DH 370 with a Casablanca - Oujda train at the Barrage Idriss 1er.jpg

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•  Info all by Kabelleger -- Kabelleger (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Info Morocco has a surprisingly developed railway, transporting 30 Mio. passengers annually (which is more than Amtrak!). The picture shows an ONCF passenger train ("train voyageurs") with an EMD (General Motors) diesel engine on its way from Fez to Oujda, following the Barrage Idriss 1er shoreline. The old line, now on the lake bed, had to be abandoned a few years ago, when the dam was built; thus the new concrete and steel bridge.
•  Abstain as author -- Kabelleger (talk) 21:43, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Neutral I like the viewpoint very much and was about to support. But, unlike a lot of your other FPs here the subject is too small! --Jovian Eye _storm 00:57, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
  • Try not to think of this picture as a "picture of a train", but rather a landscape picture that shows the railway line and its surrounding scenery, and "by accident" has a train in it ;)
    There's actually a story in that. For the third (?) time now we're doing an international (and a swiss) railway calendar, and it's main feature compared to most other railway calendars is that we're trying not to use "normal" train pictures, but instead pictures that combine trains with great landscapes (which works well for the international calendar and doesn't work so well for Switzerland, but we're trying). A colleague has put a preview of the next issue on his web site: See here. This put off some other railfans, who think that a railway picture is only good if you can read the road number of the locomotive... Since we didn't want to do a "normal" calendar, we turned that fact around: If you can read the number on a locomotive, then we should use a different picture instead in which the train is smaller ;) --Kabelleger (talk)
•  Support Subject is small, but I like the color contrast, the view and the curve of the tracks. --Nikopol (talk) 10:50, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support The miles and miles (kilometres and kilometres) of train track are too small lol -- One, please. ( _{^{Thank you.}}) 18:06, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 22:22, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- Very nice composition and combination of colors. But image quality (sharpness, detail) in below par, in my opinion. Also a pity that the file is compressed, affecting the quality of printing -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:06, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
  • I did a new RAW export using PS' highest JPEG quality, but it does not make a big difference. The sharpness is probably also limited by the heat haze (it was quite hot). --Kabelleger (talk) 18:34, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support now -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support I like it. It is not a train or a track, it is a railway at work. It is not a departure point or a destination, it is the bits in between, it is a journey. --NJR_ZA (talk) 15:26, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support -- Raghith 09:07, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support wow, excellent composition, great colours. --ELEKHH^T 11:46, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 12:30, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support very nice --Wladyslaw (talk) 17:49, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
•  Support -- MartinD (talk) 08:27, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 05:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

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