Found this on youtube.I was not really looking for this.Started out looking at video of lionel scale PM 1225.Some of these locomotives whistles sound like N&W whistle.I thought that was funny.Any way enjoy my friends.
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Thanks for sharing. Just made my day.
What is the story on that very first train in the video. The one hauling the logs and fence posts(?). It looks like a revenue move. Maybe the two steam engines were deadheading to an event somewhere and the railroad asked them to move those cars while they were at it? Norfolk Southern used to do that sometimes with the 1218,use it to haul revenue or empty cars on its way to run fan trips.
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Well I guess if I modeled european trains I wouldn't have to weather them.
tncentrr posted:What is the story on that very first train in the video. The one hauling the logs and fence posts(?). It looks like a revenue move. Maybe the two steam engines were deadheading to an event somewhere and the railroad asked them to move those cars while they were at it? Norfolk Southern used to do that sometimes with the 1218,use it to haul revenue or empty cars on its way to run fan trips.
I do not know.Just set back and enjoy.
Give me just a 1/2 hour on one of those engines, and I'd have a smile for a month!! Thanks for sharing!☺
Boy , that little 0-6-0 at 4:18 was sure "gittin it", and talk about some elaborate linkage. They run em' hard there in the Netherlands. Very entertaining!
redjimmy1955 posted:Give me just a 1/2 hour on one of those engines, and I'd have a smile for a month!! Thanks for sharing!☺
They have one of the oddest color scream on those locomotives.Black with red wheels.I got a kick out of watching a locomotive.Run tender first pulling a train.But like I stated before.I was really looking for this.I just stumbled across this.
We took a rail fan tour through Romania, Austria, and Germany earlier in the fall this year. It was really cool to see to see the European steamers. I actually got to see one of the locos in the video in Germany. Below are a couple shots from Romania. Nearly every major station had a Romanian-built pre-soviet era steam locomotive on display. Two of the pics are from a moving train so there is some reflection.
I also loved the color scheme for their trains, very eye-catching.
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seaboardm2 posted:redjimmy1955 posted:Give me just a 1/2 hour on one of those engines, and I'd have a smile for a month!! Thanks for sharing!☺
They have one of the oddest color scream on those locomotives.Black with red wheels.I got a kick out of watching a locomotive.Run tender first pulling a train.But like I stated before.I was really looking for this.I just stumbled across this.
Color scream???
Anyway, red drivers, undercarriage and tender trucks is/was fairly common in Germany and the more eastern European countries.
Rusty
Red is the color of choice of lots of the active and non-active steam in Wolsztyn, Poland - Home of the last mainline, revenue commuter steam shed in the world! 
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What a fun looking engine SJC we’ll have to add that area of Poland to our travel list!
I didn't watch the whole thing, but man, the roadbed in those first few shots...it's immaculate!
I was able to take a foreign language class trip to Germany was I was in high school. It was 1993, a few short years after the wall fell. We took an overnight train as a group, which was much more dormitory style than US roomettes, but I remember in whichever station we boarded, there was also a steam switcher, think 0-6-0 saddle tank size, that was clearly active and being used in the facility, and that was on the DB. Unfortunately I did not get good picture of the train ride. Beside the rock hard bunks being 6 to a compartment, I remember that the windows opened as we threatened to stick my friend's stinky feet out the window for the sake of the rest of us. The only reason we didn't actually make him do it was the possibility of a close clearance taking them off!!
Thank you Seaboardm2!! I agree about the whistle sounding like an N&W!!
Keith Crook 020419 posted:What a fun looking engine SJC we’ll have to add that area of Poland to our travel list!
Go while you can...steam may not be running on the high-speed commuter service for much longer.
While you are there, do "The Wolsztyn Experience" - the opportunity to not just watch - but also drive (run) the trains! That's right, you can go to Poland and spend a week driving (running) and firing real, mainline, steam commuter trains. This is not a museum. This is not a tourist train. This is real, everyday passenger commuter service using steam locomotives. The last in the world. I spent the first week of August 2019 in Wolsztyn, with nearly 1,000 miles of time at the throttle of OL49-69 (pictured above), a large Polish built 2-6-2 and the 0-8-0 narrow gauge steam operation at Sroda, about 45 minutes from Wolszytn. Most of the run was on the single track mainline with speeds averaging around 65MPH. About 8 miles (if I recall correctly) was on the Berlin-Warsaw hi-speed mainline which is the Polish equivalent to the US Northeast Corridor -- electrified track, concrete ties and more!
As Howard Jones, the director and founder of "The Wolsztyn Experience" says, "you can go see a lion in the zoo or you can go to Africa. This is the last Africa for the steam train."
SJC,
Wow! That is amazing, definitely going to start planning soon. That’s great information, thanks!
