Two heavy haulers on the W-wa Okęcie - Konstancin-Jeziorna - Siekierki coal line, running light back to Okęcie.
Above and
below: SM48-111 and ST44-700 passing W-wa Dawidy station. The
SM48 (also seen in its Russian version, the TEM-2) is nicknamed
Tamara by Polish train spotters, while the
ST44 is known as
Gagar (as in for Gagarin, Russia's first astronaut).
These locos' heavy axle weight meant that much of the line had to change over to concrete sleepers as the standard wooden ones (as found on the parallel electrified passenger tracks) couldn't cope.
Two heavy haulers on the W-wa Okęcie - Konstancin-Jeziorna - Siekierki coal line, running light back to Okęcie. Above and below: SM48-111 and ST44-700 passing W-wa Dawidy station. The SM48 (also seen in its Russian version, the TEM-2) is nicknamed Tamara by Polish train spotters, while the ST44 is known as Gagar (as in for Gagarin, Russia's first astronaut).
These locos' heavy axle weight meant that much of the line had to change over to concrete sleepers as the standard wooden ones (as found on the parallel electrified passenger tracks) couldn't cope.
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