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#831 LongviewRailfan

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Posted 03 February 2016 - 02:27 PM

SD70-2s leading a CWR train.

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#832 kknobl

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Posted 03 February 2016 - 08:28 PM

Being kind of new to knowing how to do repaints, this is my first effort at an orginal paint scheme - fictional leasers (Central Leasing Services) on LSRC:

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#833 Jonatan

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Posted 03 February 2016 - 10:27 PM

LongviewRailfan, on 03 February 2016 - 02:27 PM, said:

Curious looking units. They look like a U23B high hood mixed up with a SD70ACe.

#834 LongviewRailfan

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Posted 12 February 2016 - 01:22 AM

kknobl, on 03 February 2016 - 08:28 PM, said:

Being kind of new to knowing how to do repaints, this is my first effort at an orginal paint scheme - fictional leasers (Central Leasing Services) on LSRC:

For your first go, you sure did a way better job than I did with my first scheme. Looking good! :D

A GP59PHI in fresh paint is seen leading a train on the San Bernardino line.

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#835 LongviewRailfan

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Posted 09 March 2016 - 05:19 PM

Poking to see if it'll twitch.

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#836 pnrailway

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Posted 09 March 2016 - 06:52 PM

Nice shot Nash.

Western Maryland West Bend Branch, West Bend West Virginia

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After traveling down the branch the train starts to enter the outskirts of Elkins.

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#837 caldrail

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Posted 13 March 2016 - 06:02 AM

Just back from another visit to Krovenia. There's been some major track maintenance work and disruption to services over there but normal operation is forecast later this year. With my trusty camera I managed to snatch some pics of Krovenian railway action.

To start my little gallery here is one of TK's ex-DB E185's taking a regional transfer out of Pahuseg on toward the exchange sidings at Roztoky. Tranz Krova are a recently formed open access logistics provider who compete with DB Schenker quite aggressively on their home turf and look like expanding their operation very soon.

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A hungarian train is hauled up the incline toward Bohumin by a KRZ lease unit. Quite a few locomotives were declared surplus when Krovenia became independent in the 90's and the realities of a free market economy became clear to the former communist state. Krovenske Republiky Zelenice, the former state owned railway, opted to retain a number and lease them out as motive power pool. That business is slowly being lost to MRCE as reliability issues begin to dominate. Some, like this EU07, received a rebuild in 2002 and work just fine.

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KCZ, or Krovenske Cargo Zelenice, were the freight department of the state owned railway until they were made an independent company in the 90's. A pair of Russian built VL80's pull a heavy freight train through Bohusodov in this picture. KCZ don't have many of them but they fulfill an important role in moving freight around the country. These big engines dislay the same liveries as the smaller and much less powerful EU07's although unlettered examples like this are not lease units. KCZ operate them all.

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European Union rules mean that infrastructure must be handled by seperate companies, and so KRZ set up their former maintenance department as a new organisation, Krovenske Republiky Pruga. They got something of a raw deal as KRZ gave them most of the locomotives deemed unsuitable for commercial use, which basically means they got the rust buckets and problem childs. Here we see a ballast train heading east for the depot at Hostka hauled by two unloved EU07's long past their best.

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Another KRZ lease unit in the old passenger service livery, this time waiting at Pahuseg with a consist of Austrian coaches. The locomotive appears to have broken down and awaits a relief unit to tow it to the next destination.

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One of the older KRZ EU07's heads an Italian sleeper train through the northern plain near Hanusovice. It won't stop there - this train is headed direct to Kropol-Most airport in time for connecting flights to european destinations. Trains making for the main station in Kropol go by the more important Vienna-Kropol Railway running to the north.

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(This s an older non-sugnalled version of my Pahuseg route with the most completely messed up track database ever known to MSTS science. It won't even run in Open Rails in this condition, but the route isn't dead yet.)