German Steam In the Late 1960's

Love those BR locos with the snow blinders !  I have some Fleischmann HO versions. Wish I could have gotten an MTH one when they came out, but couldn't afford one then, now I can't find any..

Thanks for sharing

First Class!

Very nice!!!!     Don't you just love those German 2-10-0 locomotives, especially the 3-cylinder ones? I made two trips to what was East Germany, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, for two different "Planned Steam" operations, where a particular sub-division was operated with all steam power for 3 or 4 days, in the winter. They always had at least two 3-cylinder 2-10-0s and one 3-cylinder 4-6-2. All freight trains and all passenger trains were handled by steam power. Naturally it was VERY well organized, and each of us purchased a "participants" badge and complete schedule, allowing us to enter the engine terminals, etc.. Had some great times.  

@MR_P posted:

Love those BR locos with the snow blinders !

"snow blinders"??????    You must mean the smoke lifter devices (small elephant ears) on either side of the smokebox, designed to lift the exhaust smoke & gasses higher into the atmosphere, at speed.

I have some Fleischmann HO versions. Wish I could have gotten an MTH one when they came out, but couldn't afford one then, now I can't find any..

Thanks for sharing

Yes hot water, I didn't know that's what their purpose was LOL. 

I really enjoyed watching this, and the sounds made it even more pleasing! Thank you for posting!

Rusty

Very nice! I then had to find the time to watch the other parts of this 4 part series. All well done!

Dan Weinhold

@Rusty Traque posted:

Stumbled on to this YouTube posted on 12/23/20.  Outside of the fact I have a fondness for Decapods, I'm amazed at the picture and sound quality.   If I'm reading the end credits right, this was filmed in Super-8.

Rusty

From Google Translate:

The railway systems in Rottweil develop in a large S-curve in the narrow topography of the Neckar valley, deep below the city. At the northern head of the station, near the city and the Au tunnel, there is the parking facility for passenger trains and the "donkey's back" for dismantling and building freight trains. The Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) is located at the southern head of the station, between the passenger train tracks and the Neckar. The video shows the most important work involved in restoring steam locomotives in the depot. In addition, the provision of passenger trains and the function of the discharge mountain are shown.

GREAT FOOTAGE! I have a very nice PIKO model of a DR 2-6-0 BR-24, with nice boiler detailing in 1:26 scale about 28" long.

Wow, that is some great footage, thanks for sharing with us.  I lived in Stuttgart back in the early 60's (my dad was Civil Service) and got to see some steam run.   I did see some Electric's and some of the diesel's of the times run also.  I was 15 at the time so the only time I got to see the trains run was when I was on the bus for school, riding with my dad traveling somewhere or if we hiked across country about 5 miles away to watch the trains.  I found them to be very fascinating and loved to watch them and always got really excited whenever we heard the steam coming.  Those were good times.

Thanks for sharing, that was a great video, I've been watching as much German train videos as I can find.  Unfortunately, I don't remember all that much german anymore so I don't have a clue what the subtitles are saying anymore.

@J. Motts posted:

...  Unfortunately, I don't remember all that much german anymore so I don't have a clue what the subtitles are saying anymore.

You can copy what they say, do a Google Search on "Google Translate," then paste the text in, and it will give you an English translation—as I did!

I liked it!