In early 1955 my father mentioned that he had received a letter from his old friend Dimitrios Pappas in Addis Ababa. I asked whyso I assume he had been attached to the Embassy to provide a cover for his extended presence. Probably furnished with a letter from the Palace he had gone to the railway shops and was permitted to photograph locomotives despite their being considered classified strategic assets. We later found out the staff had even pulled a couple out of the shed for him. I remember a couple were so blurred I just threw them out. The rest are fairly amateurish - too frontal - the man had probably never taken such photos before, but how often do photos of the Ethiopian Ry taken 65 years ago turn up?
