{"id":2707,"date":"2013-06-05T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2013-06-04T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T02:37:46","slug":"croatian-railways-passenger-train-west-of-zagreb-august-16-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/croatian-railways-passenger-train-west-of-zagreb-august-16-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatian Railways Passenger Train West of Zagreb, August 16, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listening to the Sounds of a General Motors 645 diesel in Run 8.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

On the afternoon of August 16, 2003, I was in suburban Zagreb<\/a> making photos on Croatian Railways (Hrvatske Zeljeznice<\/a>\u2014properly spelled with a hooked accent over the \u2018Z\u2019, which I\u2019m not using in order to avoid problems with text interpretation by different computers).<\/p>\n

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A Hrvatske Zeljeznice class 2044 diesel (General Motors export model GT22HW-2) works west of Zagreb. Exposed with an Nikon F3Ts with 105mm lens on Fujichrome<\/a> slide film.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some local passenger trains, and long distance trains working the non-electrified line to Varazdin<\/a> were hauled with General Motors diesels (built locally under license by Duro Dakovic). Many were still wearing the older Yugoslavian green and gold, but a few such this one (2044-002) were in the newer and attractive HZ blue and silver livery.<\/p>\n

I also caught a few freights with Swedish designed Rc electrics HZ class 1141, similar to Amtrak\u2019s AEM-7s.<\/p>\n

Zagreb is a beautiful city with some wonderful old architecture a tram system. It\u2019s as old as memory goes too. There were people living there when the Romans arrived some 2000 years ago.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, precisely 20 years earlier, on the afternoon of August 16, 1983, Bob Buck and I caught a Boston & Maine freight leaving the yard in Springfield, Massachusetts<\/a> with a Canadian National GP9 in consist. The CN GP had come down on the Montrealer the night before, pinch-hitting for a failed F40PH. Somehow, it seems relevant to mention that, it really ties the blog posts together.<\/p>\n

A Hrvatske Zeljeznice class 2044 diesel (General Motors export model GT22HW-2) works west of Zagreb. Exposed with an Nikon F3Ts with 105mm lens on Fujichrome slide film.<\/p>\n

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