Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jaffa-Jerusalem railway

Jaffa-Jerusalem railway

Original - Jaffa-Jerusalem railway circa 1890s: French rolling stock, Belgian rails and the first Jerusalem Railway station

Not for voting - unrestored original

Reason: The Jaffa–Jerusalem railway was inaugurated in Ottoman Palestine in 1892. It is considered to be the first Middle Eastern railway. The man principally responsible for actually construction the railroad was Joseph Navon, a Jewish entrepreneur from Jerusalem. This image illustrates rolling stock brought from France, rails from Belgium, and the first railway station in Jerusalem in the background.
Articles this image appears in: Jaffa-Jerusalem railway
Creator: American Colony Jerusalem, restored by Michel Vuijlsteke

Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 19:33, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support – not sure I should !vote here, because I requested the restoration (and thank Michel very much for fulfilling the request!), but will do so anyway, along with a further clarification of the significance of this picture:

Basically, this is one of the very few high-quality freely-availabe pictures clearly showing coaches and a loco in pre-WWI Palestine. Certainly the only one such picture I have encountered in digital format. Even more important because most railway enthusiasts seem to take more interest in rolling stock than railway infrastructure, and because railway documentation from that period is practically non-existent (noted in: Cotterell, Paul (1986): The Railways of Palestine and Israel). If I may quote Anthony Travis (PhD in history and faculty member at the HUJI), who wrote a book about this railway, from an e-mail he sent me a few days ago: Probably the best picture for detail of the coaches. In short, the picture is unique and very detailed. —Ynhockey ^(Talk) 20:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support GerardM (talk) 21:34, 19 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rare, detailed photograph. EV is high, & it looks good quality-wise. hmwith τ 13:48, 21 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good EV, and very well don restoration. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 10:10, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support The restoration is excellent.

Promoted File:Jerusalem Railway Station2.jpg MER-C 11:54, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]