Schade, daß keiner das Modell der bayrischen S 3/6 nachgebaut hat. Etliche deutschen Loks kamen nach 1945 in die USA. z.B.Turbinen Dampflok Rudolf DIESEL war ein Augsburger😂❤❤❤
Astounding! And to make the experience an A+ even that much better, I didn't see one she it missile stool bump. Choo choo choke a nag gore choke a nag gore choo choo. If you want a great time you must avoid the g-Roy' d line. Gnome same? 🚫🌑🦗 🤣
22:20 Paddlesteamer "Goethe" dates back to 1913 but underwent several modifications since. After WW II it lay on the bottom of the riverbed and had to be salvaged and thoroughly refitted. In the 1950s it was modernized, got a streamlined funnel and a new bow. Had it not been for the original diagonal compound engine you would not have believed that it was a real steamship. Then the funnel was altered again to make it look more "historic" again. But the biggest blow came a couple years ago. Due to the poor thermal efficiency of steam engines, rising fuel prizes and a technical failure inn 2008 the engine was taken out and given to a museum in Cologne as a permanent loan. The wheels are now turned by a hydraulic system that get its power from a diesel. Another steam veteran of the same shipping line is now moored as a museum exhibit and a third steamer was sold to the Netherlands. Renamed "De Majesteit" it operates in Rotterdam, still driven by its original engine.
Common joke in Germany about (mosty narrow gauge) "little trains" or "Kleinbahnen" was the alleged sign: "Getting off and plucking flowers during the movement of the train is strictly forbidden".
Fun fact: Why do all (!!) German non-standard gauge steam locos have that "99" class numbers? They are definately not similar enough for just one class when you look at them. It all started in the 1920s with the new "Weimar" constitution. In 1871 some 25 German states plus three independent cities had united, we know that, but that did not mean that the German states gave up their souvereignty in a lot of domestic matters. Rail, commerce and transport remained in their local hands. Most of the railway system was then unified as "Deutsche Reichsbahn" and all that rolling stock plus locos were then incorporated into its new classification system. A broad variety of so-called "Einheitslokomotiven", unity-class locos, appeared on the drawing boards, starting with the "01"-class for fast express locos, and so on. There were the heavy freight locos with their numbers ranging from the "40s" till the "50s". And older ex-Prussian, ex-Bavarian locos were compared to the new designs and got numbers that came close to the new ones so that it was clear which purpose they could fulfill. The ex-Prussian "P 8" became class "38", for example. All this work was done by some office and it took years to re-class all that abundance of locomotives. And when all this had been completed the order came to do it again with the huge amount of narrow gauge trains that were the backbone of local transport in either rural or mountainous regions. There were so many different designs that the numbering system came to its end. The number 98 had been used for some standard-gauge tender locomotive and so there was only the number 99 left for the entire fleet of narrow-gauge locos, no matter what they looked like, how many driving wheels they had, whether they ran on 660, 750, 990 or 1000mm gauge.
Before Covid I was going to Dresden twice a year to spend a week travelling each day on one of the lines around Dresden Most are easy to reach by local trains but the museum trains are rather isolated and not easy to access by train or bus. There are reasonably priced hotels next to Dresden main station. I book all my rail tickets to and from the narrow gauge railways online DB and pay at the steam railways when I get there. My route was train from Milton Keynes Central - Euston - Eurostar - Brussels - Frankfurt - Leipzig - Dresden. Not so easy as I found trains cancelled every time I went but the refunds are easy to obtain. Of course rail fares are expensive compared with air fares. I like Dresden very much - few tourists with a very relaxed way of life. Wonderful and cheap trams and very pleasant cycling and walking. All the German cities do this and put the car dependent UK to shame. Unification did not help industry in the old East Germany. I travelled through both sectors in the 1950s while in the RAF in West Germany and afterwards en route to the USSR. At the time and until unification the factories and the towns and villages that housed the workers were vibrant. Today the factories often lay in ruins and the towns and villages seem to be dying. A wonderful film and I hope you are encourages to visit these railways.
Too bad you didnt get any footage of the 1003 along the Crandon line to white lake. I live south of Crandon and theres not much for footage or photos of trains on this line!
Fichtelbergbahn, Lößnitzgrundbahn, Weißeritztalbahn and Zittauer Schmalspurbahn do regulary steam Service every day. 365 day every year. Thats really amazing.
Dang, that’s rare footage! The Athabaska (nee Milwaukee 53, now has original paint and number) didn’t last long at all on UP. Very few pieces of CNW pax equipment survived the UP merger.
Question, did you guys run into issues with greased up rail through Panama and 2% solution? We hit a few spots that really made uphill pulls with the Mike a real challenge and a few downhill runs downright dangerous... This was like Tuesday and Wednesday we had the most issues.
