HI all,
A seasonal taste for you this week which I’m sure has been sent before though in colour but a number of you late comers have never received it. We had trudged through the falling snow from Honebach the border station with East Germany over the top of the mile long Honebach tunnel to the location here and got quite a few photographs of trains leaving the tunnel and climbing from Bebra.
This is the first East German rebuilt 01 class Pacific 01-0501 rebuilt from the original Riechbahn 01-174 at Menningen Works to an oil burning loco and at this time was allocated to Erfurt in the east.
We are on the East German border at Honebach after a heavy fall of snow and the train is climbing from Bebra in West Germany with the 08.24 Frankfurt Main to Warsaw. This was a busy line all the trains being long-distance and all worked from Erfurt to Bebra and return by these East German Pacifics with West German crews. Sunday 18th February 1973.
Regards
Ledg .