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The sand is BACK! [0]
It's the warm yet cloudy morning of 20.06.2024 and TEM2-123 of the sand mine Kotlarnia is slowly making its way through the spruce forests of Racibórz (Lasy Raciborskie) together with TEM2-043 as a pusher engine and a loaded sand train to Zabrze Maciejów Pn.
Having left Kotlarnia roughly 30 minutes before, the next post on the way is the junction Elektrownia Rybnik EZ (the Rybnik power station's Western outpost).
The latest few days have been some of the most intense and action-packed days of my life, all thanks to an extremely unique event occuring in Southern Poland - more precisely Silesia.
There is an unusual lot of things to talk about here, and most of them start with the phrase "One of the first trains after X years", with X corresponding to an integer value between 1 and 25. Others on the other hand start with "One of the last...". And so I will split the whole information aswell as personal experiences up into many posts so as not to overload the first one with all of the stuff I want to talk about.
The whole story starts on last Monday's morning with me receiving a text from Wojtek. As if nothing terribly interesting was to happen, he had asked me if I wanted to come to Silesia, as there was going to be an event with a steam locomotive in Rybnik. "Oh, by the way, tommorow and on Thursday there is going to be a sand train running from Kotlarnia to Zabrze."
With the way the information was presented to me, I was uninterested and reluctant at first, but decided to give it a go, as I had no other plans for the week. As it later turned out, I would not be disappointed!
The last hindrance was getting an accomodation - luckily enough, just that Monday, my family had come back from their camping trip earlier than planned and could provide a warm bed for me in Silesia for the duration of the following days.
We continue on Tuesday, 18.06, at 4:30 in the morning. Having woken up, I make my way to Gliwice's central bus station, which had been designated as our team's meeting point. The rest of the story in a future post!
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The sand is BACK! [0]
It's the warm yet cloudy morning of 20.06.2024 and TEM2-123 of the sand mine Kotlarnia is slowly making its way through the spruce forests of Racibórz (Lasy Raciborskie) together with TEM2-043 as a pusher engine and a loaded sand train to Zabrze Maciejów Pn.
Having left Kotlarnia roughly 30 minutes before, the next post on the way is the junction Elektrownia Rybnik EZ (the Rybnik power station's Western outpost).
The latest few days have been some of the most intense and action-packed days of my life, all thanks to an extremely unique event occuring in Southern Poland - more precisely Silesia.
There is an unusual lot of things to talk about here, and most of them start with the phrase "One of the first trains after X years", with X corresponding to an integer value between 1 and 25. Others on the other hand start with "One of the last...". And so I will split the whole information aswell as personal experiences up into many posts so as not to overload the first one with all of the stuff I want to talk about.
The whole story starts on last Monday's morning with me receiving a text from Wojtek. As if nothing terribly interesting was to happen, he had asked me if I wanted to come to Silesia, as there was going to be an event with a steam locomotive in Rybnik. "Oh, by the way, tommorow and on Thursday there is going to be a sand train running from Kotlarnia to Zabrze."
With the way the information was presented to me, I was uninterested and reluctant at first, but decided to give it a go, as I had no other plans for the week. As it later turned out, I would not be disappointed!
The last hindrance was getting an accomodation - luckily enough, just that Monday, my family had come back from their camping trip earlier than planned and could provide a warm bed for me in Silesia for the duration of the following days.
We continue on Tuesday, 18.06, at 4:30 in the morning. Having woken up, I make my way to Gliwice's central bus station, which had been designated as our team's meeting point. The rest of the story in a future post!
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus