Avoided by foreigners?
When browsing galleries of rail enthusiasts from other countries who visit Poland for the purpose of taking pictures, I often am amazed by the sometimes obsucre choices of places they visit. i often wonder where they found out about them, as some are very rarely frequented by even Poles.
There is one exception though. The harbour areas of Poland seem very attractive and can certainly stand up to the standard of the industrial railways of Silesia, yet, despite this, I think I have yet to have seen any foreign railfans take pictures here, despite them being in direct proximity of other places frequently visited. The Ostbahn brings in Dutch fans of the Wadlopers, the line to Hel attracts Czechs, but Gdańsk and Gdynia? Not a single soul.
One of the areas with the largest amounts of traffic is the transloading facilty in the Gdańsk harbour. It owns a fleet of 4 equally painted SM42s. Their resemblance to the paint scheme of Tabor Dębica is not a coincidence - all of them were repaired there. On this picture all of them are visible. SM42-2240 returns to the depot after finishing its shift, while SM42-2256 prepares to start work instead of it. To the far left of the frame is SM42-2279 and in the shadowy depot sleeps SM42-2304. It also seems like since our last visit, the track layout has been revised and the very unique Bäseler-type switches have been removed.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Avoided by foreigners?
When browsing galleries of rail enthusiasts from other countries who visit Poland for the purpose of taking pictures, I often am amazed by the sometimes obsucre choices of places they visit. i often wonder where they found out about them, as some are very rarely frequented by even Poles.
There is one exception though. The harbour areas of Poland seem very attractive and can certainly stand up to the standard of the industrial railways of Silesia, yet, despite this, I think I have yet to have seen any foreign railfans take pictures here, despite them being in direct proximity of other places frequently visited. The Ostbahn brings in Dutch fans of the Wadlopers, the line to Hel attracts Czechs, but Gdańsk and Gdynia? Not a single soul.
One of the areas with the largest amounts of traffic is the transloading facilty in the Gdańsk harbour. It owns a fleet of 4 equally painted SM42s. Their resemblance to the paint scheme of Tabor Dębica is not a coincidence - all of them were repaired there. On this picture all of them are visible. SM42-2240 returns to the depot after finishing its shift, while SM42-2256 prepares to start work instead of it. To the far left of the frame is SM42-2279 and in the shadowy depot sleeps SM42-2304. It also seems like since our last visit, the track layout has been revised and the very unique Bäseler-type switches have been removed.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus