Letting off steam
On one of the cold, yet snowless days in December of 2024, SKPL was tasked with a shipment of a power generator/transformer from Wrocław to the harbour in Gdynia - something the company does several times a year. SM31-021 was picked to run the train on the unelectrified sections of the route. In exception to most transports, this one didn't lead over Kościerzyna on the old coal trunk line, but rather continued on the old Ostbahn towards Tczew. I photographed the train on 7.12.2024 as it was on the section between Czersk and Czarna Woda, as TNS 553000 Czersk - Pszczółki.
The particularly humid weather made for an amazing spectacle of steam, which a keen eye will spot just behind the locomotive. It is not the classic exhaust smoke, but rather water from the hot air being burst out of the engine, immediately condensing into steam.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Letting off steam
On one of the cold, yet snowless days in December of 2024, SKPL was tasked with a shipment of a power generator/transformer from Wrocław to the harbour in Gdynia - something the company does several times a year. SM31-021 was picked to run the train on the unelectrified sections of the route. In exception to most transports, this one didn't lead over Kościerzyna on the old coal trunk line, but rather continued on the old Ostbahn towards Tczew. I photographed the train on 7.12.2024 as it was on the section between Czersk and Czarna Woda, as TNS 553000 Czersk - Pszczółki.
The particularly humid weather made for an amazing spectacle of steam, which a keen eye will spot just behind the locomotive. It is not the classic exhaust smoke, but rather water from the hot air being burst out of the engine, immediately condensing into steam.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus