A night time picture of an East German 3 cylinder oil fired 2-10-0 class 44. Here is 44-0233 standing at Saalfeld late at night with its burners roaring away getting steam up ready for the long climb out to the steel works at Unterwellanbourn on the line to Gera with a heavy freight of casting sand. There will be a banker at the rear for the long haul ahead. Tuesday 21st April 1981.
This is a West German 012 oil burning 3 cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific, these things got thrashed, and they motored. There was no holds barred with these engines. You could here them coming from miles away, I would have loved to have driven one. It must have been full regulator from the very start if the sound was anything to go by. No worries about killing the fireman he just sat there and played with his controls, there was plenty of
This is really remote and wild Portugal along the River Duro. It took 3 days by train to get here from Britain, no cheap flights then. Oil burning German built Henschel 4-6-0 number 282 slowly crosses the river Duro at Ferradosa with the daily postal train from Oporto to Barca De Alva on the Spanish border one of only 4 trains in this direction for the day. It was a long wait between photographs. Snake country beckons among the rocks