Екібастұз Уголь. Экибастуз Уголь, Карьер Боагтыр перевалка вагонов 2ТЭ10М-2045. 2TE10M-2045 Bogatyr transfer start up. 11th May 2024.
We pull up in our car alongside a train parked up, locomotives switched off. We came here last night, a train was sat here also, switched off. The crew were nervous of our presence with and our cameras and told us it had broken down. One of them leaned out of the engine room with a spanner and confirmed this. Again there are people inside, we are a little cautious but take pictures. The driver leans out of his window and shouts to us, we go over, and though he has no German or English he soon knows where we have travelled from. He signals us to wait. Shortly he leans out of the cab window again, pointing his phone down to us. It speaks through a translate app 'We will start the locomotive and you will make a video with your cameras' He waits for us to take our positions and then each unit is restated with plumes of smoke. A bus arrives and three get down out of the cab, its a crew change. The relieved crew are gone and the train restarts, uphill for a kilometre or so on the last leg up to the Bogatyr' mine.
2TE10M-2045 with transferring coal emptys from Ekibastuz 2 to the Bogat'yr' mine. May the 11th 2024.
Jane made a video and Sven took a picture:
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Екібастұз Уголь. Экибастуз Уголь, Карьер Боагтыр перевалка вагонов 2ТЭ10М-2045. 2TE10M-2045 Bogatyr transfer start up. 11th May 2024.
We pull up in our car alongside a train parked up, locomotives switched off. We came here last night, a train was sat here also, switched off. The crew were nervous of our presence with and our cameras and told us it had broken down. One of them leaned out of the engine room with a spanner and confirmed this. Again there are people inside, we are a little cautious but take pictures. The driver leans out of his window and shouts to us, we go over, and though he has no German or English he soon knows where we have travelled from. He signals us to wait. Shortly he leans out of the cab window again, pointing his phone down to us. It speaks through a translate app 'We will start the locomotive and you will make a video with your cameras' He waits for us to take our positions and then each unit is restated with plumes of smoke. A bus arrives and three get down out of the cab, its a crew change. The relieved crew are gone and the train restarts, uphill for a kilometre or so on the last leg up to the Bogatyr' mine.
2TE10M-2045 with transferring coal emptys from Ekibastuz 2 to the Bogat'yr' mine. May the 11th 2024.
Jane made a video and Sven took a picture:
www.flickr.com/photos/193754111@N04/53839896335/in/datepo...
www.flickr.com/photos/156217758@N08/53765935967/in/datepo...