You won't see this anywhere else!
At sunset, after a very hot day, which culminated with a heavy thunderstorm, SM30-801 of JSW Logistics is waiting for a white signal to proceed shunting back towards the signal box at the Budryk coal mine located in Ornontowice.
The title is very unimaginative, perhaps even clickbaity but I really have to emphasise how unique this picture is.
Most locomotives in Poland are photographed very regularly and have tens or hundreds of pictures taken of them each year. Some however, are mostly unused or hidden deep inside industrial facilities, or military bases. A simmilar case is with this locomotive, as from the basic research I did on the internet, I could only find... 3 publushed pictures of the locomotive, ever to be taken.
The history of the SM30-801 is not very clear, however from the pictures on the internet I could find out that it had been most likely brought to the Budryk coal mine in 2017.
From what the locals told me, the locomotive is usually unused and is stood at the signal box of the Budryk mine. Occasionally it does shunting work with empty wagons or loads up carts with mining waste headed to the spoil tip. It is most likely the only locomotive in the JSW fleet to posess their paint scheme, maybe even the only SM30 there.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
You won't see this anywhere else!
At sunset, after a very hot day, which culminated with a heavy thunderstorm, SM30-801 of JSW Logistics is waiting for a white signal to proceed shunting back towards the signal box at the Budryk coal mine located in Ornontowice.
The title is very unimaginative, perhaps even clickbaity but I really have to emphasise how unique this picture is.
Most locomotives in Poland are photographed very regularly and have tens or hundreds of pictures taken of them each year. Some however, are mostly unused or hidden deep inside industrial facilities, or military bases. A simmilar case is with this locomotive, as from the basic research I did on the internet, I could only find... 3 publushed pictures of the locomotive, ever to be taken.
The history of the SM30-801 is not very clear, however from the pictures on the internet I could find out that it had been most likely brought to the Budryk coal mine in 2017.
From what the locals told me, the locomotive is usually unused and is stood at the signal box of the Budryk mine. Occasionally it does shunting work with empty wagons or loads up carts with mining waste headed to the spoil tip. It is most likely the only locomotive in the JSW fleet to posess their paint scheme, maybe even the only SM30 there.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus