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SU42-518 was a must-see for everyone visiting the railway line to Hel for trainspotting, as it had been repainted into the retro scheme of SU42 locomotives from the early 2000s just after the start of the summer season.
The locomotive was originally marked as SP42-195 and "modernised" to the SU42 standard in the year 2000. The modernisation being an exchange of the traditional water boiler to electric heating.
After the modernisation it had been stationed throughout many different depots of PKP, then PKP Przewozy Regionalne and now Polregio, before settling on the Pomeranian section of Polregio in 2022. After its repair in 2023 it started running summer seasonal trains between Chojnice, Gdynia and Hel.
Here the loco can be seen fighting the heavy grade leading from the passenger stop in Swarzewo to a local summit as it hauls a regio train to Hel.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Highlight
SU42-518 was a must-see for everyone visiting the railway line to Hel for trainspotting, as it had been repainted into the retro scheme of SU42 locomotives from the early 2000s just after the start of the summer season.
The locomotive was originally marked as SP42-195 and "modernised" to the SU42 standard in the year 2000. The modernisation being an exchange of the traditional water boiler to electric heating.
After the modernisation it had been stationed throughout many different depots of PKP, then PKP Przewozy Regionalne and now Polregio, before settling on the Pomeranian section of Polregio in 2022. After its repair in 2023 it started running summer seasonal trains between Chojnice, Gdynia and Hel.
Here the loco can be seen fighting the heavy grade leading from the passenger stop in Swarzewo to a local summit as it hauls a regio train to Hel.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus