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Electric - Diesel - Steam: One Weekend

Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:51 pm
by ronik24
Hello,

Here you can see many (over 450) pics from Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

On Friday I made a trip partly by ICE to the German border town of Simbach, on a branchline from the Innviertel region.

On Saturday there was a private special train with nostalgic 2045.020 diesel through the lovely Kamptal valley near Wachau region.

On Sunday the steam museum/shed Strasshof opened for this season with several steam trains and 5 different steamers working at the shed. They also presented a newly restored loco, Southern Railway class 109.13, very special since they now have 3 working express locos of the late 19th / early 20th century Southern Railway. Of course here is also the oldest working original steam loco from 1851, "Licaon".



the full series can be found here:
http://raildata.info/stuff/esd040418/

Since I can't show all photos by far, you should definitely check it out, many more and different photos can be found here! ;)






example pics:

Vienna Western station Friday morning
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The ICE I took to Linz leaving the station
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InterCity on to Attnang-Puchheim approaching
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That's how cars should be moved! :D
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Meeting on the branchline Steindorf - Braunau - Simbach
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Bavarian trains at Simbach
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Several trains with 2043s at Ried im Innkreis
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Passing Lambach station in a semi-fast train (terminal of two private lines)
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Back to Vienna by ICE
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And finally a lovely evening session at Vienna Penzing station
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ICE is going on its evening weekday run to Innsbruck
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4030 Schnellbahn
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Interesting IC 744
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The second ICE from Hamburg is arriving
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IC 649 "Carnuntum"
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Saturday morning at Vienna Heiligenstadt station (with Hundertwasser thermal power plant in the background)
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My semi-fast train to Hadersdorf am Kamp approaching
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5047 coming from the Kamptal railway going to Krems, at Hadersdorf
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Nostalgic 2045.020 arriving from its home station Krems
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Going to Stiefern on the Kamptal railway by regional train, at Gobelsburg
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At Stiefern
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The special train, same place. Sadly sunny time was over...
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Thankfully there was also a photo halt
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Again at Stiefern stop, you may notice that the snow plough is missing on this side - the loco had an accident with a tractor and wasn't fully restored for this ride.
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At Rosenburg, further North
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Back to Hadersdorf
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Little excursion into the Wachau region by 5047.001
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5147 on the bridge over the Danube in Krems
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Finally back on the Kamptal line at Zöbing in the evening
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On Sunday: Special train with the most beautiful 310.23 at Vienna Maxing in not-so-good weather
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Again a "helping hand", same time at Vienna Hetzendorf station, second special train with 93.1420 coming from Wiener Neustadt
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Dramatic presentation of the 109.13 at Strasshof, including hundreds of visitors
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There she is
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310 details, now some edited shots
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310 going to the turntable
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The 3 Southern Railway locos 629.01, 109.13 and 310.23 coming out of the shed
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310
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30.33 and the very old "Licaon" smoked in by the departing locos
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The cab of the 310 (went on a cab ride :))
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Garden railway at full speed :D
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Finally, the sun turned up
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Cabrides in the area (tried to reproduce an "old" color photo here)
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Train to the near Schnellbahn station with 30.33 on the left
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93.1420 preparing for one of the special trains back from the shed to Vienna and further on to Wiener Neustadt
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Another "old" color shot with "Licaon" and 629.01
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The first special train leaves Strasshof at 3 p.m.
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EuroCity from the Czech Republic passing Strasshof
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A small grass fire broke out, this sweet nostalgic fire truck of the Strasshof fire department arrived (there was already a modern vehicle on the scene, but they seemed to enjoy spraying more and more foam on the ground ;))
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Taurus with freight train speeding through Strasshof yard coming from Vienna
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Two 2143s have taken over a heavy freight train coming from the Czech Republic
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And finally: the second special train with 310.23 in charge
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:50 am
by southcoasttrains
Excelent photos there Roni, Amazing :D

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 7:41 am
by laverack2
Great shots. Germany has a much more interesting rail network than the uk, and those ICE trains look much nicer than our HST expresses.

I especially like the one with the guard in the foreground. That could easily be on a full page spread advert for Deutch Bahn!

I'm currently learning German, and hope to visit someday.

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 1:43 pm
by jdjonny
Excellent as always :D

JDJonny

Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:29 pm
by martinhodgson
Really love the atmospheric shots, particularly the shed steam one!

Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:43 am
by ronik24
Hello,

Thanks, guys! :D

(And we are here not in Germany with Deutsche Bahn, that's Austria and ÖBB... :wink: )