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trains trains trains!!!!!

Mar 25, 2008
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It was since the end of last August that I didn't spend a whole day taking trains' pictures ... and I did it again on last Saturday

It was a very successful day: I found several different kinds of engines, of four different Railway Companies: FS E402, E444R, E632, E633, E646, E652, E655, E656, ALe724, ETR500, D345 --- RTC EU43 --- Railion E 483 --- BC Rail E 186

... time to go

Mar 14, 2008
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... another working week has gone: it's time to leave towards the weekend ...

DB 218 401

... altra settimana di lavoro conclusa: tempo di mettersi in moto verso un paio di giorni di relax ...

the colour of trains - german electric locomotives

Feb 5, 2008
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it's well-known that the colour of trains is different from railway company to railway company and from country to country, but even in the same country, and in the same company, it changes through the time.

let's start to have a look at the electrical locomotives of the German Federal Railways DB (Deustche Bahn) in the last 50-60 years

E 91 99 - old green livery

DB 141 222 - green livery

DB 181 209 - blue livery

DB 140 349 - blue & white livery

DB 103 181 - TEE livery

DB 143 149 - old dark red livery (ex DR)

DB 171 013 - old dark red livery (ex DR)

DB 111 178 - CityBahn livery

DB 145 013 - trial red livery

DB 112 026 - first red livery

DB 185 135 - latest red livery

as usual in these pages, all the pictures have been taken by me.

Shunters

Oct 16, 2007
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I like so much the shunters: to me, they are a world inside the railway world

ASF-44_saalfeld_02-09-00_mau

I just opened a shunters' collection, starting from the pictures of German ones

346-564_nordhausen_30-09-96_mau

FS E655 / E656 - "caimano"

Oct 9, 2007
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The family E656 is friendly named 'caimano' (cayman) and this nice "logo" was originally applied over any engine

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This universal electrical engine has been built in more than 450 units between 1975 and 1989 and is still running on Italian rails

Here follow some pictures taken between 1988 and 2007 concerning the different series, differently painted and with a wide variety of trains: enjoy them!

E656-002_milano-greco_06-10-90_mau

E 656 002 in Milano Greco Depot on the 6th of October in 1990

E656-242_milano-rogoredo_04-01-97_mau

E 656 242 crossing Milano Rogoredo station with an InterCity train on the 4th of January in 1997

E656-464_s.stefano-lodigiano_23-07-96_mau

E 656 464 with a passenger train crossing S. Stefano Lodigiano station on the 23rd of July in 1996

E656-250_cucciago_11-03-88_mau

E 656 250 with a passenger train coming from Switzerland near Cucciago on the 11th of March in 1988

E655-550_tortona-c.o_28.08.07_mau

E 655 550 owned by the FS Cargo division, near Tortona with a freight train on the 28th of August in 2007

E656-418_milano-rogoredo_04-01-97_mau

E 656 418 with a Spanish 'Talgo' crossing Milano Rogoredo station on the 4th of January in 1997

E656-428_piacenza-c.o_06-05-96_mau

E 656 428 with a passenger train near Piacenza on the 6th of May in 1996

E656-526_milano-rogoredo_16-04-90_mau

E 656 526 with a local passenger train entering Milano Rogoredo station on the 16th of April in 1990

E656-412_fontana-pradosa-c.o_30-12-01_mau

E 656 412 painted in the latest livery near Fontana Pradosa on the 30th of December in 2001

E656-558_tortona-c.o_28.08.07_mau

E 656 558 pushing an InterRegional train near Tortona on the 28th of August in 2007

E656-041_tortona-c.o_28.08.07_mau

E 656 041 with a container train near Tortona on the 28th of August in 2007

E656-197_stradella_13-07-07_mau

E 656 197 with a container train crossing Stradella station on the 13th of July in 2007

You can find here a nice and complete gallery collected by two italian E656's fans

24 August 2007

Aug 28, 2007
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One day dedicated to trains!!!! … Stefano and me met at 6.00 a.m. to reach the railway line entering in Germany from Basel, in Switzerland … we heard that on that line is possible to see several different trains and this is true … in only five hours, from 10.00 a.m to 3.00 p.m, 17 different kind of trains travelled through Efringen-Kirchen station: electric engines family 101 – 110 – 111 – 120 – 140 – 146 – 155 – 185 DB, family 151 and 185 Railion, family E 189 (ES 64 F4) Dispolok, family 421 and 482 SBB-Cargo, electric railcars ICE family 401 (ICE 1) – 403 (ICE 3) – 406 (ICE 3M), diesel railcars family 628/928