These pics were taken on Thursday, Friday and Monday, the last one from yesterday shows a special train with a green ÖBB 2050 (GM/Henschel G12).
The full parts can be found here:
http://raildata.info/stuff/ost1040409
http://raildata.info/stuff/ost2040412
Example pics:
Thursday evening at Atzgersdorf-Mauer station, semi-fast train out of Vienna
LTE 2150 leaving Liesing yard
InterCity 653 "HEERES-SPORTZENTRUM" to Graz
Vienna Eastern station Friday morning, rake of EuroCity "Sobieski" to Warshaw ready to leave soon at platform #7
EURegio 2504
Going by Schnellbahn line 80 to Lobau during sunrise
At Praterkai
On the yellow Danube
Big waves on the Danube
EC 104 "Sobieski" at Lobau
Great 2143 smoke
Tracks below the bridge leading to Lobau oil harbour in morning mist
Small excursion back to Praterkai
Early morning commuter action on the Danube bridge:
ER 2507 from Bratislava with Ukrainian sleeping car at full speed
2070 and line South along the Danube West shore
The old 2067 also starts up now (see smoke
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View North, Millenium tower and Kahlenberg hill in the background
Freight train on the road
"Decorated" 6020 as S80
Back to Lobau, finally the thing I have been waiting for: oil collector train from Stadlau yard to Lobau harbour. For those, 2050s have been reactivated because of many faulty 2043/2143s!
Back on the bridge, single 2068 also to use the oil line
1042 helps Taurus with heavy ore train from the Czech Republic
This 2070 is also going to take over an oil train later
2068 on the line below the bridge
2068 returns without cars...
long, empty Schlieren train: 2016 + 16 coaches
ER 2519 on the bridge
1014.001 + 1116.051
Punctually at Wien Simmering, EC 75 "Johann Gregor Mendel" from Prague in monumental landscape
Now pics from yesterday:
First ones were taken early in the morning, on a line near my house usually just taken by freight trains from a big chalk quarry ending at Waldmühle. For this part I used a bike, later a friend took me up to the closed Waldviertel line Retz - Geras - Drosendorf a bit less than 100 km North of Vienna where this train ended.
Only negative thing was that the train went into the wrong direction for the time of day on the Waldviertel line...
Getting the special train rake with 4-wheelers to Waldmühle at 7 a.m.
A little experiment:
2 pics merged: one of the train during daylight, one of the surroundings at the time when I would like to have had it (1/2 hour earlier)
Reversed train at Waldmühle
My vehicle in the morning
Train coming back after 8 a.m.
In the Waldviertel region:
Woods near Retz
The chase starts...
You may notice the "hump" on the roof: 2050.02 is the only 2050 having it. These are actually just freight locos, located on the roof here is the train heating.
After Langau
After Geras:
The "Show Curve". Mostly people already got off the train at Geras to visit an exhibition at a convent near there. Only some hardcore photographers and one filmer (having a VW van with ladder and platform on the roof!) kept on to Drosendorf as Geras only has one track. In this curve the train stopped several times and reversed again.
Reversing (I guess you wouldn't notice that!
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Finally at Drosendorf
Without any new . in view
