Bundesbahn in 1979/80, pt. 2

Was sorting through image files and was able to date the series at Bundesbahn in the '70s (to '81) to 1979 or 1980. Duisburg - Koblenz was my "home" trip as it connected my grandparents. Here two images that weren't included the first time around.

An unidentified 103 pulling an IC in Bonn Hbf. The driver looking back to make sure all clear as
he prepares to pull out.

The two love birds here can also be seen in the main series here. Just scroll down.

Revisiting Meschenich-Kölnberg

With one set of grandparents in Duisburg and my other grandmother in Koblenz, a lot of time during visits was on the train between the two. Going through some images I found two views of the same place between Cologne and Bonn, Meschenich-Kölnberg. This is a Trabantenstadt (satellite city) not dissimilar from the Plattenbauten in the DDR. The image below is from Google's Street View and was captured in 2008. Spinning the image around shows that it is really in the middle of no where.

Here an image of the same location from 1979 or 1980 taken from the train.
Film is super grainy, most likely because of my processing.
More images from that trip here.

And here from the trip I took with my daughter in 2004, my last time in Germany.

Who says you can't drop high rises amongst the farm fields in the countryside...

Feeding heavy industries in Duisburg

While coal required to power the steelworks was domestic, mined from the depths of the Ruhr Valley, iron ore was often imported and brought to the world's largest inland port of Duisburg by barge.

Family painting showing steelworks along the Rhein in Duisburg ca 1920s/30s

Here a view from above. Of course things have changed...

And below a short documentary about a load ore arriving from Sweden on a barge, the barge being unloaded and then reloaded with Ruhr coal for some other place. Includes a little railroad related activity such as a coal car being unloaded...

Diese Dokumentation gehört zu den seltenen Filmdokumenten, die eine längst zu Ende gegangene Epoche besonders interessant wiedergeben. Der Film zeigt den Duisburger Hafen in den 50er Jahren mit den seinerzeit eingesetzten Schiffen und Verladegeräten. Die Geräte, die vor einer Verschrottung verschont blieben, stehen heute als technische Denkmäler in den Hafenanlagen und können bei einer Rundfahrt durch den größten europäischen Binnenhafen bestaunt werden.

Foreground Flats

Wolfgang Krolow

Facade without a building, Berlin Kreuzberg, late 1970s/ early 1980s

From the Betonbabe tumblr.

Watching Trains in Real-time

Watch trains moving across the country in real time with the Süddeutsche Zeitung's Zugmonitor, a webcam of a different kind. Site is designed to show where there are delays, but entertaining none-the-less.

To stop the video and track in real time, click on "LIVE" in the upper right.What this shows: each black arrow is a long distance train en-route. Clicking on it shows the route and on the right a window opens displaying the stations. The arrows surrounded by colored circles are trains that are late. The darker the circle, the later it is. Clicking on one of those also gives the reason for delay at top of the window. Using the (Suche) window, you can also choose the type of trains you want displayed and also select stations.

Site in German only... Click image to start watching.

BR 221 at Bw Oberhausen Osterfeld Süd

Was surfing through the Revier (Ruhr region of Germany) thanks to Google Maps and saw that the image of the Bw Oberhausen Osterfeld Süd had been updated. What did I find but a BR 221 amid all the 232s, 21xs, 29xs, and 36xs and whatever else was parked around there. Most likely 221 116 (V200 116) of the Dampflok-Tradition Oberhausen. More pictures of 221 116 (V200 116) here. Fun.

And here via Bing. If you follow this link and search around the yard some (image can be rotated for bird's eye from other side) you might even spot a BR 103 in Cream/Burgundy...

Bergwerk Hugo II in Gelsenkirchen

Tour around Bergwerk Hugo II in Gelsenkirchen, the town I called home for two years (1985-1987). Nice descriptive narration in typical Ruhrpott dialect -Wonderful!

And here's what's left now via Google Maps. A whole lot of nothing...

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DB Class 103 in Advertising Films

Rheingold, THE TEE (DB Class 103)

Nice footage of the Rheingold pulled by a BR 103 between Emmerich on the Dutch/German border down to Karlsruhe.

Info zum Film hier.

Here a film about the E 03s/103s construction

and another with lots of great shots.

Bundesbahn in 1979/80

Replaced my broken scanner over the break, got one that can also do slides and negatives, and am now having fun (re)discovering people, places, and things I saw in my youth. Among them some railroad pics. First some black and white ones, very grainy and borderline terrible, and thus (almost) verging on artsy. Venues for the first set are between Cologne and Bonn, Germany.

Near Köln Deutz.

Class 110 448 coming into Köln Hbf.

Passenger and railway employee (conductor) at Köln Hbf.

SNCB multi-system Class 18 (here 1801, the first in the series of 60) in Köln Hbf.

Heading past the passenger car yard. Coaches on the right are DR stock,
note also the pointy-roofed Type-Y.

More passenger coaches with the Dom in the background.

The E-lok Bw of Köln. Nicely visible the Class 103 on the left and 110s on the right. Looks like
the 103 is still there based on the picture at Google Maps.

Somewhere between Köln and Bonn.

Plattenbau, Wessi-style south of Cologne in Meschenich-Kölnberg. Also called a Trabantenstadt, these
high-rises were stamped out of the fields...

Typical trackside Shrebergärten/Grabeland - garden plots for the masses, often tucked between tracks...

Love birds in Bonn.

BR 103-147 with TEE in Bonn Hbf.

BR 110 heading west from Konstanz to Radolfzell at Allensbach on the B odensee, summer 1979.

BR 403 EMU being run as coupled multiple units along the Rheintal, June 1981.