leon21 Posted June 8, 2013 Share Posted June 8, 2013 Pic. 1 Troops on Ohrdruf station c1940 from the Truppenubungsplatz ( training camp ). Pic. 2 Ohrdruf station today, little has changed. Pic. 3 Training camp entrance Ohrdruf c1940s. Pic. 4 A Christmas holiday train for soldiers going home on leave at Dzankoi station Krym c1942. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted June 9, 2013 Share Posted June 9, 2013 Love the now and then photos Colin , if you find any more please post them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 More Photo's. Pic 1. Calais station c1940. Pic 2. Wittenberg station c1960s. Pic 3. Bremerhaven station c1960s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 Here's 3 photos of the Schienenzeppelin ( Prototype Rail Car ) in Berlin 1931 undergoing trials. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 Here's a selection of Riechbahn photo's. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted June 25, 2013 Author Share Posted June 25, 2013 Here's some pictures of the DRG 05 class streamlined steam locomotives only two were built 001 and 002. 002 engine set the world record speed for steam locomotives after reaching 124-5mph on the Berlin to Hamburg line on 11th May 1936. This record was broken two years later by the British LNER A4 class 4468 Mallard engine. Only 001 was preserverd in the Verkehrsmuseum Nurnburg were it can be seen in its original red livery. Borsig in Berlin built a one-off streamlined cab forward 05-003 in 1937, with further development being stopped by WW2. In 1944 the streamlining was removed but had by then already lost its cab forward layout. After the war it pulled express trains in West Germany until 1958, it was scrapped in 1960. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted July 3, 2013 Author Share Posted July 3, 2013 This time the photo's are of the DRG. Class E19-01, built by AEG and presented in 1938 and was placed in regular service after successful test runs. The locomotives had the elegant red paint scheme that identified express locomotives and the emblem of that time for the Reichsbahn was present on the ends of the locomotives. Two of these locomotives can still be seen today, Road No E19-01 in the Berlin Technology Museum and Road No E19-12 in the Nurnberg Transportation Museum. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Extremely interesting. I'd love to have more Reichsbahn items, just possessing a couple of arm eagles. I can recommend a very good book, 472 pages, packed with photos, rather heavy, again, German text should be no hindrance: Die Deutsche Reichsbahn 1939-1945 - Zwischen Ostfront und Atlantikwall (subtitle) by Andreas Knipping & Reinhard Schulz, Weltbild Verlag Augsburg, 2006 I got mine about 2011, they were on offer, quite cheap! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leon21 Posted December 9, 2016 Author Share Posted December 9, 2016 Thanks Paul, looks an interesting book, I'll see if I can get hold of a copy, always been interested in steam trains. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 Also shows the work and operations of the "Reichsbahner" and security on the fronts and occupied territories, partisan activity and destruction and sabotage on the one hand and repair and maintenance on the other, plus personnel losses through terrorism. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewy Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 A couple of pics. One's not quite a railway station platform but it has SS RSO's on it. The other is obvious. Stewy 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buster Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Great photos stewy, its very interesting to see then & now pictures. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Andrew Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 The Narvik picture is very iconic 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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