#Monomad Scenes from a Bike - Edition 33 - The Train and the Bike Path

Two in the space of two weeks - this is ridicolous but it is the 33rd edition of the series - Scenes from a bike

This Edition facts:

Location: I'm on my bike on the partly old, partly new bike track along the Moonee Ponds Creek in North Melbourne, West Melbourne and eventually to docklands

Date & Weather: It's still Saturday the 15th of November 2025, does this mean this post should have been combined with the previous post from that day, they where separate rides though, and besides I make the rules here

Equipment: a 12 year old Fujifilm X-M1 camera, and a weird Fujifilm lens - the 24mm X-Mount Filter Lens, only available in Japan this lens is tiny (it weights 14 G) is fixed focal length, fixed aperture (F8), full focus and doesn't really communicate with the camera at all. It's weird.

The Concept & Finances: The concept is simple, I've bought an electric bike, on this bike I explore my hometown, Melbourne Australia and take photos, Priority 1 - Finding new places in Melbourne, Priority 2 - taking better photos, Bonus - Earn back the cost of the bike by creating content and getting paid for it on HIVE. The bike cost $1,100 USD. So far I've earned $177.84 from the previous 32 paid out posts meaning I've paid for just over 16% of the bike and I have $922 to go. This is going to take some time, but this is all bonus money, the joy is in the taking of photos.

Other stuff: This is all in black and white because I think this is where this lens is going to shine, in a analogue sort of way

So this is going to be a weird post, there is only two real subjects here, the bike path itself which as I said runs next to to a creek, overhead is a freeway, and it's around here that it spaghettis itself into all sorts of offramps so that give us subject 1 the bike bath, a hint of the creek and the overhead freeway. I like the lines and the concept of different arterials stacked
oh yeah and it's over exposed slightly but I think that works.

The next five photos are all of the same subject, as if to add to the transports sampler plate that is this bike path you also manage to ride under a train line, well a couple of them actually, but this one in particular is a unusual one because it's leading to the shipping docks about a kilometer further along, so you get these really weird goods trains rolling through, very slow and sometimes stopped as they are so long that the fair end can actually be at the unloading point. Anyway this fascinated me so I took five photos of it. Also I should mention the train is going backwards the locomotives are pushing it rather than pulling it, I guess you can't really turn this thing around it's that long.