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218 105-5 (D-NESA) Oberhausen Mathilde 2016 09 16

12:15: (N) 218 105-5 (D-NESA) moving a Speno railgrinder track machine.

 

This lok only changed hands on 4 May 2016 (3 months before) to NESA - Neckar-Schwarzwald-Alb Eisenbahnbetriebsgesellschaft mbH.

 

Krupp built in 1971, 218 105-5 was stored by DB in March 2012 with engine failure.

 

Preserved by Westfrankenbahn Museumsbahnhof, Amorbach it was intended as a static musem piece.

 

Instead it's engine was repaired and it was declared viable to work and ran for DB RegioNetz Verkehrs until 2016 when it was sold.

 

NESA had it overhauled in late 2019 (REV Unt. 22/11/2019), so it should have plenty of years left in it.

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Uploaded on September 18, 2020
Taken on September 16, 2016