During a parade of historic locomotives in Fürth, this engine of the German Class 41 evoked my attention. Despite being built in 1940, the freight locomotive 41 360 seemed particularly juvenile and elegant to me.
Category: Railways
Markersbach Viaduct in Saxony
During a bus ride from Annaberg-Buchholz to Schwarzenberg, we pass the Markersbach Viaduct (Markersbacher Viadukt). Since 1889 it spans a side valley of the Große Mittweida in Saxony. Today it is part of a test track. [German]
Railcar SVT 137 225 in Leipzig
While waiting for my connection train, I came across this DMU (diesel multiple unit) dating back to 1935. Before WWII, it ran as one of the first high-speed trains in Germany. After 1945, the train depicted above (SVT 137 225) operated for the GDR government.
Seehas Railway in Constance
The Seehas Railway is a rail link between Konstanz and Engen. The name doesn’t derive from the existing fish Seehase (lumpsucker) but from a fabulous creature supposed to live in the western part of Lake Constance. [German]
Diesel railcar ÖBB 5144
Passengers of trains running along the Semmering Railway World Heritage Site may have seen this diesel railcar at Semmering station. It is a railcar of the ÖBB Class 5144, dating back to 1951. [German]
Dual-gauge railway in Karlsruhe
An interesting detail in the streets of Karlsruhe: The remains of a former dual-gauge railway which used three rails.
Frecciargento high speed train
The Frecciargento (top speed of 160 mph) belongs together with the Frecciarossa (190 mph) and the Frecciabianca (160 mph) to the group of Italian high-speed trains. The train depicted above is waiting in the central station of Bolzano for the exit towards Rome. [German]
Talent 2 at railway station Halle (Saale)
The Talent 2 is a multiple-unit railcar manufactured by Bombardier Transportation. The first trains were produced in 2008. The design of the cab ends made Germans call this type of train Hamsterbacke (hamster cheek). The depicted train is run by the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland.
S-Bahn station Quartier Belvedere in Vienna
ÖBB 4746 ‘Cityjet’ in Bruck/Mur
An ÖBB 4746 ‘Cityjet’ is leaving the railway station of Bruck an der Mur heading to Graz. This train is a brand-new one. It started to operate in the Austrian rail network on December 13th, 2015.
Diesel railcar ÖBB 5047
The diesel railcar ÖBB 5047 was produced by the Tyrolean Jenbacher Werke in the years 1987-1995. It replaced several older railcars such as the ÖBB 5144. I few of them were sold to competitors of the ÖBB, e.g. to the Hugarian-Austrian Raaberbahn AG.
Suspension Railway in Dresden
View of the suspension railway connecting the districs of Loschwitz and Oberloschwitz in Dresden. The pic was taken from a passing paddle steamer driving along the river Elbe. The pecularity of this suspension railway (Schwebebahn) is the fact that it is cable-drawn like a funicular railway.