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Once in the West - reedited
The mainline between Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt(Weinstrasse), Kaiserlsautern and Saarbruecken,
called "Pfalzbahn",
leading through the Pfaelzerwald mountain range and hereby crossing some tunnels and rocky slopes.
By far the longest tunnel is the so called Heiligenberg tunnel, built 1846-49, 1340 m, which is entered from the east side by a long cut, secured by stone walls.
January 19th, 2014, was a typical winter day of western Germany, dull, overcast, grey, cold.
181 201 at the head of IC 2351 emerge from the tunnel in the afternoon of this nasty day.
181 201 was the last engine of DB painted blue at the time.
She never was repainted red, but surprisingly got a new coat of blue paint in July 2010.
Being in active service until April 2018, she was then given to the DB Museum of Koblenz.
My once published picture once more re-edited.
Gordon Edgar wrote:
Your favourite location Tom! That’s an incredible tunnel, particularly given the year when excavated. A ‘celebrity’ loco and well done for capturing this.
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Once in the West - reedited
The mainline between Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Neustadt(Weinstrasse), Kaiserlsautern and Saarbruecken,
called "Pfalzbahn",
leading through the Pfaelzerwald mountain range and hereby crossing some tunnels and rocky slopes.
By far the longest tunnel is the so called Heiligenberg tunnel, built 1846-49, 1340 m, which is entered from the east side by a long cut, secured by stone walls.
January 19th, 2014, was a typical winter day of western Germany, dull, overcast, grey, cold.
181 201 at the head of IC 2351 emerge from the tunnel in the afternoon of this nasty day.
181 201 was the last engine of DB painted blue at the time.
She never was repainted red, but surprisingly got a new coat of blue paint in July 2010.
Being in active service until April 2018, she was then given to the DB Museum of Koblenz.
My once published picture once more re-edited.
Gordon Edgar wrote:
Your favourite location Tom! That’s an incredible tunnel, particularly given the year when excavated. A ‘celebrity’ loco and well done for capturing this.
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