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The line into the Dolomites

A narrow railway crossing green alpine ground toward the Dolomites.

A narrow railway curves through vivid green alpine fields toward villages and sheer Dolomite cliffs.
A narrow railway curves through vivid green alpine fields toward villages and sheer Dolomite cliffs. South Tyrol, Italy

Field note

Why I kept it.

What I liked was the odd mix: Austria and Italy bleeding into each other, huge mountains, absurdly green ground, then people and their railways, houses and power lines spread through all of it.

The track gives the picture a direction, but the place is interesting because none of those parts sit separately. The landscape is enormous and people have still managed to leave their mark across nearly every usable strip of it.