Notes

I don’t have a lot of time, or rather I have to get up early tomorrow, but I wanted to post this picture from today’s trip to the Iron Rhine.

The different but very similar european locomotives, that are called, after their manufacturer (who built it with an EMD license) Nohab could be described as the european version of the american EMD F. I’ve written some more on the picture of the belgian Nohab with wrong cab. The locomotives went to many smaller countries and, oddly enough, hungary, before the supreme soviets decided that importing american designs wouldn’t do for a country on the socialist side of the iron curtain. They were never bought for Germany, but our state railroad, the DB, has a habit of scrapping locomotives instead of selling them to private companies, so a lot of interesting things from Europe were pulled together here for the small ones.

This Nohab was driving though Rheydt Central Station. I have no idea what other stations Rheydt is supposed to have, given that it’s a part of Mönchengladbach and all stations before and after it are called Mönchengladbach-Something. Either way, it’s owned, like most Nohabs in Germany, by Eichholz and is mainly used in the construction business, both for work trains and for normal freight trains for construction companies. According to markings on the axle bearings, of all things, it probably used to belong to the danish state railroad DSB. Eichholz is certainly aware of the locomotive’s american heritage, as there is both one with Warbonnet and one with Southern Belle livery (at least).