Molli is the nickname of the Mecklenburgische Bäderbahn Molli train which runs on 900 mm gauge from Bad Doberan to Heiligendamm, the oldest narrow gauge railway on the Baltic coast.
Molli started life 1886, and runs right through towns on its 15.4 kilometer route on tram-like tracks.
Molli runs between Heiligendamm and Kühlungsborn, near the beach, and between Heiligendamm and Bad Doberan parallel to an alley.
The most interesting section is in Bad Doberan, where its rails lay in Goethestrasse like the rails of a tramway on a road. The route is very picturesque, making it a local tourist attraction.
The diesel engine wasn't just used to help the train getting up the hill/mountain, but because one local water authority hadn't allowed to take water - that would have costed 15 Euros. So they had to hire the diesel engine (from the already mentioned WLE) for 1,500 Euros until they came to a municipality with a different water supplier at the station.
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Thu 22 Mar, 2018 03:17 pm
The Prussian T18 class. Walter, by an odd paradox I rather admire the Kriegsloks, class 52. Some were in industrial use in Bosnia as late as the end of 2017.
This is brave Dave in 2015 planning his next Freight hopping trip to Canada which occurred in 2016 in September. The set of four videos from that trip in 2016 was called Brave Dave's Big Fat Freight Hop, and you'll find the links earlier in this thread. Although the videos made him immensely popular with the public, they also made him notorious with the railroads in Canada and he was prevented from doing a third trip in Canada in 2017. In 2017 he arrived in Canada but was detained and not allowed entry into the country on the basis that there was a warrant out for his arrest.
The 52 8055 is a locomotive built during the 2nd World War of the 50 series. The locomotive was built in 1942 with the company number 52 1649 by RAW Offenburg. It came to the DR (Reichsbahn, GDR railway company) after the war like approx. 200 others of the 5280 series (new number 52 8055.
In 1992 the locomotives were taken over by the Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn (museum railway) and used it as a museum locomotive until 1995.
The Swiss locomotive factory in Winterthur (SLM) commissioned it for a re-engineering project. Modernisation was done, e.g.from coal to light oil firing. The result was an environmentally friendly steam locomotive with
a power increased from 1600 to approx. 2200 HP and it became the "most modern steam locomotive in the world" through this conversion.
Old (April 1995) vs new (July 1999)
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Fri 23 Mar, 2018 05:59 am
We have seen work done by Wardale (UK) and Porta (Argentina) among others to create "modern" steam locomotive designs, but the actual practice so far seems to be at the latest, 1940s designs. There was an abortive project in the UK to build a Wardale design, designated 5AT, not for ordinary revenue earning main line traffic but to provide traction for heritage type mainline operations. Intended for max continuous operating speed 113 mph and max speed 125 mph. maybe too much that was new compared to the "Tornado" Peppercorn Pacific (a clone of a 1948 LNER design) which did get built. Many British engineers were impressed by André Chapelon's designs.
Thw Dampflokomotiv und Maschinenfabrik ("Steam Locomotive and Machine Works") in Winterthur have a >website in English< with lots of photos (and infos) aber "clean steam locomotives.
The El Achai - Peace Train
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Sat 24 Mar, 2018 01:39 pm
Near collision with an Amtrak train and an intermodal freight.
Some routine close calls between CSX freight train and people on the rails. Cab-eye view. Irritating music, must turn off sound, but otherwise good video. About 6 minutes.
I've just watched a few of the videos by Stobe the Hobo, and I haven't put any links to his videos, but they're all over the place, and there are a lot of them. Basically, he liked to hop freights and drink beer, and he is quickly becoming a legend.
I love old train photos, and Traces of Texas reader Barry Burns thoughtfully sent in this nifty shot of a locomotive on the HE&WT railroad. Says Barry: "Tenaha, Timpson, BoBo and Blair.....all were served by the HE&WT Railroad...Hell Either Way Taken, as it was not the most reliable. This photo is of one of the 2 twin engines that would have served, #30 and #31. The Engine was built by Baldwin Locomotive Co., this picture was after #31 had just been delivered and starting to be "broken in", 1898. The sister engine #30 was lost in 1901 near Kiethville when it rammed a train on the off ramp.
HE&WT began the line in 1879. The portion that included Tenaha and the others was built from Nacogdoches to Logansport in 1883-85. That line extended to Shreveport in 1886 and thus making the full connection from Shreveport to Houston."
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Mon 26 Mar, 2018 10:44 pm
The late and famous Stobe the Hobo takes a break from the freight and stops off in New Orleans on his eviternal quest for beer and chicken and, in this case, jazz.
