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Published: 2010-06-19 14:42:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 3022; Favourites: 71; Downloads: 165
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Something I don’t get to do as often as I’d like is hearing or seeing weird trains and then chasing them. This one I first followed to Vienenburg, where the engine stopped so that I couldn’t take a good picture. I was, however, able to find out where the train was heading: Wernigerode, generally known for somewhat smaller steam engines .01 1066 is owned by one of the largest railroad clubs in Germany, the Ulmer Eisenbahnfreunde, in short UEF, although it is leased out to lots of others, such as Arbeitsgemeinschaft Westfalendampf, who organized this journey from the North Sea cost in Wilhelmshafen. The locomotive belongs to class 01.10, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced steam locomotives in Germany. Originally, the three-cylinder Pacifics were fitted with a streamline housing. After the second world war, it was no longer possible to run high speeds on the network, so the shell was removed for easier maintenance access. In the late 1950s, it was rebuilt to burn oil instead of coal, which now enables it to run with two tenders on long journeys, like here. Later, there was some renumbering and similar, but the powerful machine is now back to authentic Epoch III state.
By the way, so that nobody asks, yes, the tracks on the left are narrow-gauge, as they belong to the HSB.
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Lovely clear shot of her and an unusual angle - I like it a lot.
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wow a lot of passenger coaches 
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Beautiful machine in a delightful setting.... nice photo... instant fave
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That is a fine locomotive - how many tonnes is it pulling?
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No idea, although I can tell you that the train was quite long. Or do you mean the locomotive itself? I don’t know for sure, but is essentially an upgraded 01, and those had a weight of about 110 tons.
Thank you for the 
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It does look like a long train.
I appreciate your quest to find rare and unusual rail power.
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So would I, but then I couldn’t take pictures of it anymore.
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ROFL. You take the picture, I ride. I take the picture, you ride. Sounds reasonable to me...
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sehr gute aufnahme, toll gmeacht! sehe ich dass richtig dass sie mit doppeltender unterwegs ist? hab noch nie ne 01er so gesehen
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Ja, die hat hier Doppeltender. War ja auch eine recht lange Reise. Üblich ist dass aber nicht, ich wüsste sonst nur noch 18 201 die manchmal mit zwei Tendern fährt.
Danke für die
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immer wieder gerne, in diesem fall ist das bild einzigartig
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Na ja, nicht so einzigartig, neben mir standen noch zwei andere Bahnfans die aus fast dem selben Winkel draufgehalten hatten. Aber da die nicht hier sind…
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Yeah, the 01.10 is quite cool. Thank you for the
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Wow. Great leading lines! It's also an interesting point to shoot from; I don't see shots with angles like this all that often.
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Thank you! There is a quite new pedestrian overpass in Wernigerode over the tracks, which offers a nice place to view and take pictures of the various railroad lines.
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Thank you, and thank you for the
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Nice photo!
By the look of the track HSB lubricates their equipment well... (no defoliant necessary)
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I’m not sure whether they use defoliant or whether their steam engines simply produce enough toxic waste, but yes, they always have very clean tracks.
Thank you for the
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I was referring to the amount of oil that has been deposited on the tracks by the trains themselves and that with all that oil they probably didn't need to use defoliant! Also notice that the standard gauge track is oil-free.
I also meant to comment on the rather unique (I've never seen it before) arrangement of the sleepers.
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Yeah, that is probably true. I do know that HSB takes good care of their engines and keeps them very clean, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot of oil in the right places as well. These are the first few meters after the main depot as well, so if there is oil coming down, it is here.
The sleepers are so called Y-steel sleepers, formed of steel profiles. According to the german steel industry, they are much better than normal sleepers because the Y pattern creates a much more rigid overall track than the usual "ladder" pattern. It’s still a pretty new thing and not used that widely, but HSB seems to like it. It can be found in a lot of places on their (generally surprisingly modern) network.
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I've never seen steel sleepers in the US, though I know they've been in use in Europe for a very long time. Only recently (perhaps the last 20 years or so) have we seen concrete sleepers here, except in subway tunnels, etc. When I was growing up all sleepers (ties) were wood.
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From what I understood, traditional steel sleepers largely fell out of favor here when concrete ones became useable. Their shape creates empty pockets in the ballast quite easily, and filling them took a lot more time and effort than with the other types. It was also not possible to place them automatically, and (like wooden ones) they did not stay in place as well as the heavy concrete sleepers. The Y system solves some of these problems, although it is rather expensive. Most things here, both modernized and new tracks, are built with concrete ties and will probably remain that way for a while. However, we still have a lot of wooden ties in the system and I think for some uses, new ones are still being installed.
Oh, and for some special uses we have lines without ballast, with tracks mounted directly on a concrete plane instead. Apparently it’s awesome in particular for high speeds, but for normal lines it is still used very rarely.
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If they can figure out how to extrude the concrete maybe they can reduce the cost of laying track...
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