Screenshots of European Trains

Bonsoir,

Très beaux clichés Gilles avec une belle mise en valeur de la BB12000 et son train de charbon.;)
Serait-ce une nouvelle map en cour de création ?

Amicalement Frédo.
 
Somewhere in Germany:

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Polish 1980s steam passenger train ran with a Ty2 locomotive. Ty2 type, (originally known as 52 class) were built by the German war machine during ww2 in many places, including Poland. Built to help destroy central Europe, these were later used to rebuild it.

The original wartime simplified design used parts without the use or with minimal use of "strategic materials". In postwar Poland tehse kept being improved and exchanged for more complictaed "peacetime" parts. These locos ran freight trains and local passenger traffic in Poland for decades, in some cases up till the early 90s.

A few remain operational today, running tourist and "retro" trains.
 
Polish 1980s steam passenger train ran with a Ty2 locomotive. Ty2 type, (originally known as 52 class) were built by the German war machine during ww2 in many places, including Poland. Built to help destroy central Europe, these were later used to rebuild it.

In the `80s, as far as I know, PKP had already begun full scale switch to diesel & electrics.
 
In the `80s, as far as I know, PKP had already begun full scale switch to diesel & electrics.

It began the large-scale switch to diesel and electrics in the 1960s. However the process took quite some time to complete. Remember that Poland owned over 1400 units of the Kriegslok types alone and more of other types. They were then being replaced only gradually - there was no orchestrated pullout by a single date.

Steam engines like these were first being relegated to branch lines or freight runs. In the 1970s the steam locos like this were still easy to see in everyday traffic, though certainly not on prominent "flagship" lines anymore. In the 1980s they became much more rare, but many individuals kept running for the PKP in various roles until the 1990s. For example the Ty-2 no.5680 (which is now a monument in Zabrze) was pulled from PKP service in 1994. Ty-2 no.22 (currently being renowated in Polkowice) was taken from the PKP inventory in October 1990.

Here you can find some footage filmed in 1991 by a British guy in Poland that is showing the steam engines (normal and narrow gauge) running both passenger and freight even at that late point in time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqJ7OBrET4

The Ty-2 was built by Germany and in its "wartime" configuration was expected to be a relatively short lived unit. It has to be said that the designed proved much more rugged than nazi planners expected and that highly professional PKP maintenance staff was more than able to keep it operational for decades.
 
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The Ty-2 was built by Germany and in its "wartime" configuration was expected to be a relatively short lived unit. It has to be said that the designed proved much more rugged than nazi planners expected and that highly professional PKP maintenance staff was more than able to keep it operational for decades.

Can't argue with this, we built them in our country too after the war.


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An OL49 engine pulls a fairly typical local passenger train composed of Bhp double-decker cars, late 1970s:

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The OL49 steam class was produced in Poland in the early 50s. 116 in total were built, 4 of which were exported to North Korea. The engine had a max pull weight of 12 500 kg and a speed of 100 km/h. The class was originally designed to serve local and branchline connections, but proved efficient enough that tey sometimes took over long-distance routes when needed. The last ones were withdrawn from actrive service in the early 90s.

Currently there are 2 functional surviving units in Poland running museum trains from Wolsztyn. Another active unit is now in Belgium, ran by enthusiasts of the "European Locomotive Preservation Society".

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The Bhp (previously known as "Bipa") double-decker passenger cars were built in East Germany in the 60s and 70s. A modern design at the time, they proved especially suited to serve Polish local and secondary line traffic. They could handle large numbers of passengers and still fit on short provincial stations.

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A construction goods train headed by an SM42 diesel is waiting while an ASF accumulator shunter moves a car with hydrochloric acid.
 
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