... I spent most of Saturday and Sunday at the tracks between Untervaz and Landquart photografing the arriving and leaving special trains. It was a great event...
One reason for the current building mess at Untervaz is that it is one of several places on the RhB where extended crossing loops are being installed so as to...
I presume that the Chur - Arosa passenger train still convey a wagon or two when required. My abiding memory of Chur - Arosa is of a train leaving Chur through...
... I asked the RhB about development of timber traffic. They say, quite a bit of Bernina traffic might remain and Stallinger is searching for areas where no...
Does any body know of a website that gives up to date monthly SBB stock changes (new, withdrawals, renumberings, rebuilds etc).? The SEAK site used to carry...
... My memory of the Arosa line is the entire train (with passengers on board) running round and shunting timber wagons at one of the intermediate stations....
... Whenever we think there is a site that would regularly inform about stock changes ... it stops. The only reliable sources remain the printed EA and SER....
... I don't really understand "bouyant", but ... It is a sign of state that gives railway upgrade not only a priority but also money ... ... Monday is always a...
For those not only interested in vehicles, I have uploaded some pictures from SBB railway stations and some details. http://bahnch.railimages.ch/fotos/Anlagen ...
Leading on from the shunting on the Arosa line : On Saturday I passed by way of Rorschach where EBT14 was waiting. the emu we got off of departed back up the...
In North America the freight cars on a "mixed train" were located just behind the locomotive and ahead of the passenger car (ususally ony one) and not just...
... Buoyant (note correct spelling) means 'afloat', literally in terms of maritime language. In 'general ' english (often used in terms of public transport...
... O.k., I was searching somewhere around "buy", but with correct spelling I understand it (buoy = Boje in German, same spelling) and found it in my...
... In Scotland there was a short-lived working using a container flat with through steam-heating pipes, back in the days when diesel locomotives had steam...
... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ And I have a memory of the Brunig line (now Zentralbahn) from way back in early June...
Krist van Besien wrote: How was HEP delivered to the passenger car in such a setup? HEP? Mixed trains in NA ended long before HEP came about and many were...
Until the resumption of all day paasenger travel on the Oensingen Balsthal bahn in 2005 this railway ran a couple of mixed passenger/freight trains on this...
... For normal English usage in a commercial context, "growing" is quite a bit of a stretch in terms of a translation. In a commercial context, 'buoyant' means...
... Mixed train operation in the US is basically a thing of the now reasonably distant past, and did not involve a level of passenger rolling stock that...
... There was no HEP. Each passenger car had it own belt driven generator or earlier, ga, Pintsch, lights and a coal stove for heat. Even until recently,...
... I assume you are speaking of OeBB and not ÖBB ? OeBB = Oensingen - Balsthal-Bahn ÖBB = Österreichische Bundesbahn (Please note that Oensingen is always...
... This link only leads to the start page. You only get a useable link by right-clicking on the link-text and choosing something like copy link address, like...
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