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Feuilleton - Let’s get rid of stereotypes!
- From home
- Assignment rosters - Węgliniec depot
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Węgliniec
is located in the direct vicinity of Poland’s western border. The
railway station entered service in September 1846 together with the
opening of the Wrocław - Węgliniec - Żary railway line. Later
Węgliniec received direct connections with Dresden (1847), Lubsko and
Zielona Góra (1865), Horka (1874) and Czerwona Woda. |
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Recently this large junction station has, due to its location,
served cross-border traffic: passenger traffic Zgorzelec –
Goerlitz (PKP – DB), as well as freight traffic Zawidow –
Frydlant (PKP - CD) and Wegliniec – Horka (PKP – DB). The main
traction used in Wegliniec are SU46 locomotives. Half of such
machines on the PKP-Cargo roster work here. The roster is filled
out with SM42’s doing shunting and, together with ST43’s, local
freight runs.
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- Summer 2005 excursions
- Costerina
- BR03 we Wrocławiu
- Chabówka show „Parowozjada”
- Is Polish railway preservation so bad?
- Post office on wheels
- New face of the „crocodile”
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The EM10 class is a very small series of electric shunting
locomotives, numbering only 4, which were in 2004 given a
complete modernization. The modernization included not only a
change to the new colors of PKP Cargo, but installation of
electrodynamic braking and constant crawl speed control.
Externally, the locomotive differs with new halogen headlamps as
well as a single-arm pantograph with graphite-lined copper
collectors. Also rebuilt was the cab, in which was installed an
on-board computer controlling all parameters during operation as
well as two ergonomic control desks. In these locomotives a new
control system featuring impulse abstraction regulation was
installed for the first time on the PKP. Recently these
locomotives have been working in the Walbrzych section of the
Wroclaw equipment department. They are used as helper
locomotives on the Wałbrzych Głowny - Jaworzyna Śląska segment.
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- The train operation system between
Szczecinek and Slupsk
- The Olszynek flat crossing
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The story of an unusual crossing of tracks - likely the only
intersection in Poland where the tracks of two normal-gauge PKP
lines cross on the same level at a 90° angle. On 16 August 1865 the
Wilhelm Railway Association established a single-track railway line
from Orzesze Jaśkowice (Friedrichsgrube), lying on the Katowice -
Rybnik line, to the „Gotmituns” coal mine („Boleslaw Śmiały” today).
Not much later this line was extended further east as far as Tychy
station. Fourteen years later, on 1 September 1884 the Upper
Silesian Railway Company (O.S.E) opened a segment from Orzesze to
Żory. A bit more than 500 meters from Orzesze station, this segment
crossed the already-existing Orzesze Jaśkowice – Tychy line, on the
same level and at an ideal 90° angle. The crossing lies at a
distance from the main line and has been out of service for several
years and likely destined for liquidation, yet is worth noting with
regard to its unusual shape.
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- Whispers about our publication - Little
railway to Dobrodzien
- Five-axle, narrow gauge military steam locomotives
- Original and model: 060DA diesel locomotive - part I
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The ST43, nicknamed „Rumun”, is the second (after the
„Gagarin”), and first in some people’s minds, cult diesel
locomotive on Polish rails. Therefore it’s not strange that the
announcement of the production of a model of this locomotive by
Geconvvm built emotion and anticipation. When at last, after
several years not without difficulties, the model saw the light
of day, we had an opportunity to take a look at it and think
about adapting it to the Polish likeness of its prototype. This
task fell to our already known reader Roman Kozak, who step by
step writes about the merits of this model, comparing them with
the original and showing the detailed steps of its conversion to
the appearance of an ST43 locomotive from Polish rails. It is
the intention of the author that the article is to above all
bring attention to the methods of adaptation, making use of the
documentation, choice and methods of making parts of the model
which are important to making an ideal copy of the original.
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- The „Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006” game
- Models of the year 2005
- What from Roco?
- Announcements and club forum
- Small railway buildings - cardboard models |
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