A Foggy Night at the Ljubljana – Zalog Hump Yard  Part 1  by  Misko Kranjec
	I took a look through the window into the darkness, semi-lit by the street lamps. Outside the night fog has already begun to thicken and watching it, suddenly those splendid Richard Steinheimer's images of the Southern Pacific in the fog were recalled to my mind. Yes, this is it – I'll go again to the Ljubljana-Zalog hump yard and spend the night there portraying the yard and the people there. With all the activity going on there, and with its size – 60 tracks in the bowl – I certainly won't run out of the motifs before morning. I packed my gear and a couple of quick-made prosciutto and cheese sandwiches, bottle of Coke, a tin of Red Bull, and a 4 oz. package of coffee as a bribe for the guys at the hump. 20 minutes later I was in the shack at the crest of a hump, greeted by the guys who already know me well. I spent there couple of hours, photographing the pin-pulling (actually, lifting the coupler's loop off the hook with the help of a pole, acting as a lever, and the weight of the "pin-puller"), the car announcer announcing through the loudspeakers and radio to the catchers in the bowl how many cars are going to which track, the social life inside the shack, the cooking of the midnight dinner, and everything else going on around and on the hump.
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