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Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Just time to jump out at Majur on the return leg and take this picture of the new Cutest Engineering Train™. Check out the My First Pantograph Gauge!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Train #14 is... a bus! 🤦 Not sure why, given we recently passed over the open railway, but this will take me from Sunja on to Sisak Caprag.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Actual train #14 is another new EMU for the journey back to Zagreb.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Train #15 is another EMU for the journey out to Harmica and back.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
Nice example of stitched simple equipment here on the mainline towards Ljubljana. Improves dynamic performance at higher speeds, but more complex than sagged simple equipment, which achieves the same goal.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Trains #16 to 20 are yet more trams as I visit the museum of contemporary art and the science museum in Zagreb. As a special treat, here is a video of me leaving the art museum by the official exit - a spiral slide!
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Found this Absolute Unit in the Zagreb science museum
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Train #21 is the 1840 Zagreb - Munich sleeper, which I'm taking in seated accommodation as far as Sevnice
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
New Cutest Engineering Train just dropped
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
Train #21 is the 2038 Sevnice to Ljubljana. The seats on this were awful; they would give any UK seat a run for it's money.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 31
After a fun couple of days sightseeing in Ljubljana, train #22 is the 0850 Ljubljana to Sevnice. My god, this train is slooooow...
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 31
Train #23 is the delayed 1028 Sevnica to Zagreb - this return working of the Munich sleeper I got a couple of days ago. Literally had no idea when or even if this train would turn up - no PIS at the station, and a stain manager who spoke no English. My Slovenian did not cut it!
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
My time in Croatia and Slovenia is at an end - I had a hell of a good time - so train #23 is the 1840 sleeper from Zagreb to Stuttgart. Unfortunately, problems with my carriage and another one mean that my single occupancy cabin is downgraded to a couchette which I share with two others. Luckily, some incredibly fast shunting by station staff to remove the failed carriages means we depart only 13 minutes late, and make up time overnight to arrive bang on time. Bravo!
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
Also: dear Germany, please stop doing passport checks at the border at 3am. You are founder member of Schengen, appeasing your AfD voters is counterproductive and dangerous, and it makes you look backwards and insular. That's the UK's brand, get your own!
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
Train #24 is the 1132 Karlsruhe - Paris Gare de l'Est ICE. Really nice vibes and ride quality in first class
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
Train #25 is the 1710 Eurostar from Gare du Nord to London. Left 10 late, and picked up more and more delays out of Paris and through northern France. Arrived 45 late - meh
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
Train #26 is a Thameslink for the short hop from St P to Farringdon.
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
Train #27 is a Crossrail train from Farringdon to Paddington. Don't call it the Elizabeth Line
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2

Train #28 is the final one of this trip, the 2000 Paddington to Chippenham.

Another great European rail trip with only one minor hiccup. And the second year running with no broken thread. Bravo!

Show threadFlorian HaasJun 2

@25kV Bravo! What a terrific travel journal.

Come back to Austria soon!

Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@xahteiwi definitely! Love Vienna and Innsbruck
Show threadSchleifleistenbruchJun 2
@25kV Purple train!?
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@Schleifleistenbruch I mean, if you must!
Show threadMedizinphysikerJun 2

@25kV 👍 Full ACK, and very well formulated ❤️

Minor correction on your previous post: the alt text on the second picture with the red ÖBB Taurus - it's Austrian, not German

Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@medizinphysiker ah thanks - bleary eyed morning posting, now corrected
Show threadrenkeJun 2

@25kV @medizinphysiker same for train 23. rather easy to distinguish: more often than not punctual from a German speaking country - ÖBB
typically delayed - DB :D

[SBB/CFF/FFS is in its own tier]

Show threadZoidtesJun 2
@25kV terrorists love that toot
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@Zoidtes what?
Show threadSaupreiss #Präparat500Jun 2

@25kV You dont want to see what the Brand is for.

(No, it’s neitzer reliability nor technology and only occasionally with enough corruption to attract soccer events.)

Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@Saupreiss thanks for the word salad
Show threadhallunke23 🇺🇦Jun 3

Border controls at 3h? Are they out of their mind? If they do that to me, they'll face a lawsuit.

@25kV

Show threadRoland SivonenJun 3
@hallunke23 @25kV The Danes do it too
Show threadhallunke23 🇺🇦Jun 3

Well, then the Danes have to stop it as well.

@transpontus @25kV

Show threadTenkomanJun 4
@25kV The person responsible ignores court orders to stop them and it is the same person who dig a billion Euro deep hole in our budget by trying to do a racist autobahn toll (which only non-Germans should have to pay)
Show threadTor LillqvistMay 31
@25kV The station looks 20 years out of date compared to the loco.
Show threadGarry KeenorJun 2
@tml it is not a well appointed station! Real backwater vibes
Show threadsamuele963Jun 3

@25kV @tml Yeah it's a fairly typical non-renovated station, if you can see it in the right light though it does have some great vintage vibes - esp with a DMU in the old livery!

Anyways, glad you enjoyed Slovenia and Croatia! If you're in this area again let me know, I'm curious to see what you'd think of Gorizia :)

Show threadsamuele963May 30
@25kV And these are being used on some long-distance ICs too! (Koper-Hodoš)
Show threadPalmAndNeedleMay 29
@25kV they should start a club 
https://norden.social/@PalmAndNeedle/111743840573062387
Show threadGulf Of Mexico Keir HardieMay 29
@25kV this guy wants a word
Show threadMartin GleadowMay 29
@scatterkeir @25kV What's the story between that NSE machine?
Show threadGulf Of Mexico Keir HardieMay 29
@mgleadow @25kV It's a Permaquip trolley, essentially a personnel carrier, basically a less primitive substitute for the Wickham trolleys used in the past
Show threadPalmAndNeedleMay 29

all of these are #zugkitten|s 

@scatterkeir @mgleadow @25kV @nilspickert @zugkatze

Show threadMartin GleadowMay 29
@scatterkeir @25kV cheers - wasn't sure if it was re engineered from something else but I guess the NSE livery was a non standard livery applied instead of engineering yellow
Show threadGulf Of Mexico Keir HardieMay 29
@mgleadow @25kV Yeah, it's unusual to see anything like that in any regional livery
Show threadNils Pickert 🚂May 29
@scatterkeir @25kV cute and smol ...
Show threadMike KnellMay 29
@scatterkeir @25kV The Vienna tramways would like to submit this entry for your consideration.. (yes, those two engineering trams do wear that livery year-round)
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
@m @scatterkeir wowwwww
Show threadMike KnellMay 29
@25kV Wearing the crossed shorting poles, symbol of the International Union of Railway Electrical Workers.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 29
@m hahaha!
Show threadTane Piper ⁂May 30
@25kV @onepict I think I saw something similar a couple of nights back shooting a large UV light in to the air (I assume checking the pylon line)
Show threadSarah WilsonMay 29
@25kV It makes a change from a gift shop, I suppose.
Show threadnameless Cat PöñíçkøvāMay 27
@25kV lol that caged footbridge
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
@pony I know, right? Crazy stuff
Show threadMartin GleadowMay 27
@25kV reminds me of the engineering tenders you used to get in UK bus fleets, repurposed from retired or damaged buses.
Show threadConor O'NeillMay 27
@25kV
Here's an electrical maintenance vehicle which I photographed just last week, in the railway museum in Riga, Latvia.
Show threadGarry KeenorMay 27
@tpuddle nice! With the platform on mounted on insulators for hot working 😱 saw a similar one last year in Chomutov
Show threadceridwen15May 28
@25kV i love it (trains with facial expressions and trains that look like bugs are the best trains)