One quiet evening along the tracks, again typical for the current days: dark, dry, not too cold.Dry is relative though, as I got the car almost stuck in the mud getting here.I was treated with 5 trains in a row: 4 from Zeebrugge, 1 from Ghent. All towards Germany and beyond. Here we see Lineas hauling a train with destination Milan, Italy. It looks well … Continue reading Parade
A grey morning during a family holiday was used to make some pictures on the diesel stretch of line 24, between Montzen and Aachen-West. Continue reading Foggy diesel
Another possible title of this post would have been “I’m blue, tadadie” for reasons that will become clear when reading the full post. The selected title does apply too, though, and maybe fits even a bit better as it was a really good day, with lots of class 66 diesel power. After dropping off my daughter at school I headed east. Rush hour lead me … Continue reading A classy day
Last Friday and Saturday, wife and daughter were out of the house. With the son sleeping at 7pm already, the men’s night was rather lonely. Never mind, we got to spend some quality time together on Saturday. I took him out to watch some freight trains. Good education can’t start soon enough. The young man didn’t care one bit, as he was or sleeping, or … Continue reading An attempt to education
On with the vintage. On the way back to Ghent, we found 5111 waiting with a coal train at what is today the Ghent Coal Terminal. The light is november-ish, perfect for this beautiful locomotive. Continue reading Ghent coal
Day 3 in this country that we were getting to know and appreciate better every day. We spent the night in Settat, in a hotel that we will remember for a long time. We got to sleep, that’s what counts. At the beginning of the vacation we had still hope to see a French Astride locomotive. After 2 days and some calculated guessing, we realized … Continue reading Morocco day 3: from phosphate to passenger trains
We continued the bicycle trip into the port of Ghent, up until Gent-Noord. The old branch of line 77 that once connected Zelzate to Sint-Gilis-Waas was still in use for seasonal beet traffic to Moerbeke. Full trains were hauled from Poperinge to Moerbeke with a mighty class 51 diesel locomotive.On this picture, we see an empty train approaching the Gent-Noord shunting yard. It has left … Continue reading Vintage beets
During the second day of following the intercity detours (Intercity detours – part 2), again a numerous number of freight trains passed by. Albeit mostly when the sun was going down, which I didn’t mind so much. It was a nice ending of the day. Continue reading Freight during the detours – part 2
That had been a while, snow at home that stays for a few hours. On January 14th there was a little, on January 16th it felt more like a snow storm. I was lucky to catch some freight trains in these wintery conditions. Continue reading It snows!
Besides intercity trains (Intercity detours – part 1), we also got to see quite some freight trains on this normally freight-only route. A selection in the gallery below. Continue reading Freight during the detours – part 1
Railscapes 