Rhysj17
Private Operator
We had booked a hire car through Sixt for our time in Ivano-Frankivsk in order to head out of the city to photographic spots that were hard to reach by train. Having had a bad experience of the company before on a trip to Latvia/Lithuania we didn't really know what to expect when we left the station to collect our car, especially as they didn't actually have an office in the city and we'd have to collect it off a 'representative'! Sure enough though after giving them a call they appeared with our vehicle and soon we were making our way out of the city on some of Ukraine's finest pot-holed roads.
From our research we'd seen a well photographed spot from an overbridge at Yezupil' around 30 mins outside Ivano-Frankivsk but just as we parked up a 2M62 hauled freight blasted passed underneath. We attempted to chase it but gave up and headed back to the bridge in the hope that something else would turn up. It wasn't long before we heard another freight train powering up the gradient and we were rewarded with 2M62-0755a/b of the Ivano-Frankivsk Cement Company. This private operator is one of very few in Ukraine and has a small fleet of locos to haul stone trains the short distance between their quarry at Dubivtsi and cement factory at Yamnytsia. The loco is seen here wearing the smart livery of the company at Yezupil' with a rake of hoppers for Yamnytsia on 23rd October 2019.
Private Operator
We had booked a hire car through Sixt for our time in Ivano-Frankivsk in order to head out of the city to photographic spots that were hard to reach by train. Having had a bad experience of the company before on a trip to Latvia/Lithuania we didn't really know what to expect when we left the station to collect our car, especially as they didn't actually have an office in the city and we'd have to collect it off a 'representative'! Sure enough though after giving them a call they appeared with our vehicle and soon we were making our way out of the city on some of Ukraine's finest pot-holed roads.
From our research we'd seen a well photographed spot from an overbridge at Yezupil' around 30 mins outside Ivano-Frankivsk but just as we parked up a 2M62 hauled freight blasted passed underneath. We attempted to chase it but gave up and headed back to the bridge in the hope that something else would turn up. It wasn't long before we heard another freight train powering up the gradient and we were rewarded with 2M62-0755a/b of the Ivano-Frankivsk Cement Company. This private operator is one of very few in Ukraine and has a small fleet of locos to haul stone trains the short distance between their quarry at Dubivtsi and cement factory at Yamnytsia. The loco is seen here wearing the smart livery of the company at Yezupil' with a rake of hoppers for Yamnytsia on 23rd October 2019.