Train 23501 with a Krauss-Maffei
With only a few active weeks left on the OSE (Organismos Sidirodromon Ellados) motive power roster, the former Deutsche Bundesbahn 221 129 (built by Krauss-Maffei in 1965 as DB class V200.1) was downgraded to lowly freight service by summer 1997. Retired in September 1987 the diesel-hydraulic was renumbered to A-414 after the sale to Greece and was one of the two last serviceable Krauss-Maffeis twenty years later. Pretty much worn out the A-414 had only one engine running when it left Thessaloniki with train 23501 to Athens in the low evening sun, a good sign of running a bit late.
The A-414 eventually returned with the rest of the Greek V200.1 fleet to Germany. However, the longevity with OSE cast the fate, the 414 was to far gone to be rebuilt once more and was finally scrapped in 2012 according to online sources. Units that failed much earlier supposedly weren't as run to the ground...
Thessaloniki
July 6, 1997
Train 23501 with a Krauss-Maffei
With only a few active weeks left on the OSE (Organismos Sidirodromon Ellados) motive power roster, the former Deutsche Bundesbahn 221 129 (built by Krauss-Maffei in 1965 as DB class V200.1) was downgraded to lowly freight service by summer 1997. Retired in September 1987 the diesel-hydraulic was renumbered to A-414 after the sale to Greece and was one of the two last serviceable Krauss-Maffeis twenty years later. Pretty much worn out the A-414 had only one engine running when it left Thessaloniki with train 23501 to Athens in the low evening sun, a good sign of running a bit late.
The A-414 eventually returned with the rest of the Greek V200.1 fleet to Germany. However, the longevity with OSE cast the fate, the 414 was to far gone to be rebuilt once more and was finally scrapped in 2012 according to online sources. Units that failed much earlier supposedly weren't as run to the ground...
Thessaloniki
July 6, 1997