Train whistles in the distance - two trains are heading my way. But something new - a loco I've not seen before. This is a Siemens Vectron, double-headed with a Czech 181-class loco pulling a rake of empty wagons back to the Silesian coal fields. Note the dust - or is it steam? - coming off the wagons - have they just been washed? And the train passes south on the electrified main line, a full coal train is being hauled across to Siekierki by diesel power on parallel tracks (as far as Nowa Iwiczna).
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Siemens Vectron is a new engine, available in electric or diesel flavour. This looks like a manufacturer's demonstrator, and is an entirely new shape on Poland's railways - first one I've ever seen.
Below: the Vectron passes, the Czech 181 behind still in PCC Rail livery (now DB Schenker).
Below: the empty train on the electrified track (right) moves more quickly than the diesel-hauled train of full coal wagons. Looking south from Kórnicka crossing towards W-wa Jeziorki station.
Below: the empty train on the electrified track (right) moves more quickly than the diesel-hauled train of full coal wagons. Looking south from Kórnicka crossing towards W-wa Jeziorki station.
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A composite comment to the recent posts - great stuff!
Lovely crisp photos of the Vectron, esp from 3/4 front. What did you take the photos with? One of the trusty Nikons?
@ Bartek, Ziggy -
Thanks guys! Photos taken with Nikon D80, 18-200mm Nikkor lens.
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