More variety from Switzerland in 2006.
NIGHT TIME AT Interlaken, Switzerland, on October 12th, 2006, and BLS Lötschbergbahn Tea 245 Class battery/electric tractor unit No. 245 022-9 is resting in the centre road coupled to a pair of SBB CFF FFS carriages. The latter will no doubt be added to an early morning service to increase the capacity for commuters - a practice that has been wiped out due to cost reasons in the UK. Who knows how long it will continue in Switzerland.
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An ex-DRGW GP40-2 and an ancient NS SD9M.
BY 2002, UNPATCHED Denver & Rio Grange Western units were extremely rare, especially when the size of the Union Pacific system was taken into account. However, your chances of finding them were higher if you started on the old Rio Grange system, and this view of GP40-2 No. DRGW 3126 was recorded at the ertswhile railroad’s North Yard, Denver, Colorado, on September 29th, 2002. The light was fading fast by the time the hostler had shuffled it into a photographable position!
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More images from the Nene Valley Railway.
NEWLY RENUMBERED INTO the Class 56/3 sub-class with a garish purple and yellow paint scheme, Hanson Traction’s No. 56312 (ex-56003) sits at Wansford (Nene Valley Railway), Cambridgeshire, on August 17th, 2008. I’m still hoping that this livery is just for fun and that HT will roll the ‘Grid’ out in a slightly more understated new image before it hits the main line. Note the cowling, fitted to the first 32 Class 56s, has been cut-away.
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Another pair of narrow gauge loks from Switzerland.
STABLED FOR THE weekend, Die Zentralbahn (SBB CFF FFS) De 4/4 No. 121 rests at the head of a rake of metre gauge stock at Luzern/Lucerne, Switzerland, on October 15th, 2006. The flash new ZB colour scheme manages to just complement the 1942-built styling of the ex-Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn locomotive/baggage car.
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Remember the last years of Class 101 operation in Scotland?
Painted in its unique Strathclyde PTE blue livery, Class 101 DMU No. 101602 (made up of DMBS 53253 and DTSL 53170) splutters out of Glasgow Central station with a service to Whifflet. The date was September 9th, 1999 and the Met-Camm diesel multiple unit was transferred to the North West a few months later. Withdrawn in 2003, it keeps this paint job in preservation at the Midland Railway-Butterley.
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