Summer is ending
Late summer offers some very charming colours, with the sun getting lower and lower each day and the leaves slowly turning their colours from green to yellow and red.
One of the late september days - 25.09.2025 - I made a day trip to the part of the Ostbahn between Piła and Krzyż, where I was hoping to see SM31-143 with some trackworks trains, which were running around in the area.
As a bonus, I caught SM42-758 in Trzcianka, a very classic station on the old Prussian mainline, as it was shunting a rake of Gondolas after offloading aggregates at the ramp located near the station. Seeing PKP Cargo's SM42s in service is not a given nowadays, and it's even harder to see them on mainline duties - which happened that very day. The locomotive formed the train and left shortly after towards Piła.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Summer is ending
Late summer offers some very charming colours, with the sun getting lower and lower each day and the leaves slowly turning their colours from green to yellow and red.
One of the late september days - 25.09.2025 - I made a day trip to the part of the Ostbahn between Piła and Krzyż, where I was hoping to see SM31-143 with some trackworks trains, which were running around in the area.
As a bonus, I caught SM42-758 in Trzcianka, a very classic station on the old Prussian mainline, as it was shunting a rake of Gondolas after offloading aggregates at the ramp located near the station. Seeing PKP Cargo's SM42s in service is not a given nowadays, and it's even harder to see them on mainline duties - which happened that very day. The locomotive formed the train and left shortly after towards Piła.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus