On our January 2009 visit to Trebusice, Czech Republic, several freights passed, led by classic CD 122 and 123 electric locomotives. In addition, we saw these locomotives coming and going to collect empty and loaded coal trains from nearby yards.
This added a little bit of color to a monochromatic environment.
Photos exposed on Fujichrome using a Canon EOS-3.
The original images were scanned using a Nikon LS5000 slide scanner and the TIF files were processed in Adobe Lightroom to improve color and contrast.
This is another class 141. The DB electric variety.
My Irish readers are familiar with Ireland’s class 141 General Motors diesel electrics. These once common twin-cab Bo-Bos were a standard variety of motive power across the CIE/Irish Rail network for decades.
By contrast, DB’s class 141 is a mainline overhead electric locomotive are in the same family as DB’s class 110/111 and class 140 electrics. The class 141 (originally E 41) were built from the mid-1950s until 1971. More than 450 of the type once worked German rails.
I made this photo of DB’s freshly painted 141-233-7 working at the back of push-pull Regional Express train that has paused at the Mainz Hbf (main station) in August 1998. At the time these were a very common locomotive in the Frankfurt area. I photographed it only because it had come to a stop near where I was standing. I’m glad I did!
I made this image on Fujichrome Sensia 100 using my old Nikon F3T with a 24mm Nikkor lens.
