aussiejeff posted a photo:
IMAGE INFO
– Viewpoint is looking west-south-west (back towards Beirut & the coast) from the Beirut-Rayak road (now the Beirut-Damascus International Highway).
– Dahr-el-Baidar station seen in the foreground is 37.6 kilometres from Beirut & sits at an altitude of 1,487 metres, being the highest point of the line. The line has since been removed but the ruins of the station & the protective snow galleries still exist (see link to amazing modern day image in the comments section).
– The mountain range here is covered in snow during winter, thus the need for construction of the protective snow galleries.
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SOURCE INFO
– Original image was captured by my late father-in-law, Driver Tom Beazley of the Australian Army 2/1 Anti-Tank Regiment, 19 Brigade, 2 Australian Imperial Force, using a Kodak Six-20 Popular Brownie box camera with 120 roll film, during his unit’s big move by road convoy via Beyrouth to Ras Baalbek camp in the Beqaa Valley, Syria (now Lebanon).
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PROCESS INFO
– Digitized using a Canon Canoscan 8800F scanner.
– Restored from the badly scratched & faded original quality, using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows (sepia duo-tone version).
