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Evening Sir,
Appreciate all the Cool Pictures from yesteryear, that's almost a 100 yr's ago, amazing Photo's and thank you for back Story too.......I and my family just recently returned from Amsterdam, an Utrecht, Harlem, so it most interesting riding their Trains over there........
Keep up the good work......Really enjoy reading the historical perspectives on Signals, and Locomotives from a very long time ago.....
Thanks for your kind words!
Speaking Utrecht, the existence of Het Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht is of course very important for Indonesian rail fan like me, because the museum houses Indonesian Mallet steam locomotive #CC5022 (cosmetically restored by Dutch people to its pre-independence identity as SS1622) that spent its final years in Cibatu locomotive depot in Garut Regency (West Java), where the locomotive pulled local trains on mountainous section like Bandung - Tasikmalaya and Cibatu - Cikajang until it was removed from service in late 1970s. However, there is a possibility that the locomotive was cosmetically restored into early 1950s style by Indonesian Railways (before being shipped to Netherlands as a gift) using remaining spareparts of CC50 locomotives removed from Madiun workshops back in late 1970s, as the workshops would later restarted its operation in 1981 as the main workshops of national rolling stock manufacturer (the PT. Industri Nasional Kereta Api, known as INKA).