Trains and other things: Maksymilianowo

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Maksymilianowo

I'm back in Poland, visiting some of the places I've been to before

Parlin

The busy railway between Gdansk/Gdynia and the southwestern parts of Poland

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Pruszcz Pomorski

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111Ed-002

Kotomierz

Maksymilianowo

This station is located near the large town of Bydgoszcz

Many freight trains are using this line

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And what a pleasant surprise...

I remember I saw a similar cat here in the winter, it was much more depressing back then

At the hotel in Bydgoszcz, a classic Neobaroque style

Many eagles here

Back in Maksymilianowo

111Eo-006, Pesa Gama

111Eo has no last-mile diesel engine compared with 111Ed

ET40-43-A

ET40 is the name for Bo′Bo′+Bo′Bo′ two-unit freight electric locomotive in service of the Polish national rail operator PKP. The locomotive was produced by Škoda Works in the Czechoslovakia.

During the 1960s and 1970s, a massive increase in freight transport was seen in Poland, especially on the routes between Silesian coal mines and Polish Baltic ports. At the beginning of the 1970s, the whole Trunk Coal Line (Pl: Magistrala Węglowa), the main route for exporting Polish coal, had been electrified. This situation caused an urgent need for suitable locomotives to pull heavy freight trains. As a result, negotiations with Škoda Works in Plzeň started. Poland sent an order for 60 articulated freight locomotives based on the EU05, which was currently in service. (Wikipedia)