Bill Smith's Photography

 The Halton Radial Railway Museum is a lovely place to visit. The only downside for photographers, most of the exhibits are indoors in dimly lit barns. The obvious workaround is either shoot with Ilford Delta 3200 or Kodak Tmax P3200, alternately take the route I did, push Ilford HP5 to 1600 and shoot with a moderately wide angle lens (35 F2 AF-D) and set the camera onto Matrix Metering to get the exposure right.  Camera: Nikon F90X, AF-D 35 F2 lens.  Film: Ilford HP5 400 pushed to 1600, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

Considering I've lived in Halton Region in the town of Oakville for over 40 years, I'm kicking myself for not visiting here sooner. Growning up in Montreal my dad took me to Expo Rail in Delson on the South Shore, there you could ride some of the trains and see many more around the museum outdoors and inside their barns.  The Halton Radial Railway is pretty much the same but on smaller scale on some old Toronto Suburban Railway right of way off Guelph Line north of Campbellville just west of Milton. The museum focus is on streetcars and interurban cars along with other public transit pieces including a couple of trolley busses from Hamilton Street Railway, Two TTC subway cars one of them being one of the Red Gloucester cars from the earliest days of the Yonge Subway Line, a Chicago Transity Authority EL car and one Monteral and Southern Counties  Interurban car.  So this makes the perfect installment for the Frugal Film Project. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, Jo-Anne an...