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6 April 2025 – A classic view of the "Mocănița de pe Valea Vaserului" (Vaser River Narrow-gauge Railway) at Km 19,1 near Cozia : the train climbs the grade along the Vaser River, as the landscape had recently received a coat of fresh snow.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250406 – 4722
Tchoutchou en pleine montée !
Dimanche 18 Mai 2025, avait eu lieu un événement exceptionnel pour nous les photographes, en particulier aux amateurs des vapeurs, puisque la 140C-27, avait parcouru l'une des lignes les plus dur de France en terme de monté, la fameuse Ligne des Causses, où c'était une journée très exceptionnelle ! Voici donc la 140C-27 crachant sa fumée en pleine montée, avec sa rame de voitures OCEM, et UIC, et la BB 67456 qui était en pousse pour aider la vapeur lors des grosses montée ! Et c'est au Viaduc métallique de l'Usclade, qu'est capturés le convoie !Un grand merci aux associations @gadeft et @train_vapeur_auvergne pour cette incroyable journée sur la Ligne des Causses ↕️ !
🚆 TRAIN SPÉCIAL : 140C-27 + fourgon, voitures OCEM & UIC + BB 67456
V120 N°801064 : Béziers > Clermont-Ferrand
Ligne de Béziers à Neussargues (Ligne des Causses)
🕡 9h20
🌞 Le matin
📍 Viaduc de l'Usclade (34)
This is just another morning in Viseu de Sus, in northern Romania. Today, 3 steam trains will travel on the Vaser River Valley line. It is early April, and spring weather was expected but it was to be a wintery landscape and likewise weather with snow falls.
A train is shunting cars to prepare an authentic-looking charter photo-train while two engines are getting ready for charter tourist trains.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250406 – 3941
With twelve “a”, the title of this picture is a real challenge to pronounce in perfect Swedish. It plays on the fact that the letter “a” and its variations “å” and “ä” is ubiquitous in Swedish language.
We are on the JTJ, the Jädraås–Tallås Järnväg, (Jädraås – Tallås Railway), a Swedish museum railway in the Iron Land of Gästrikland, a province 200 km north of Stockholm. The narrow-gauge line is 891 mm wide.
The steam engine is the Mallet #12, one of the 3 Mallets built by Aktiebolaget Atlas in Stockholm in 1910 for the DONJ railway (Dala-Ockelbo-Norrsundets Järnväg) for heavy freight trains.
The Jädraån is the name of the nearby river, which is broad enough at this location to look like a lake.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250520 – 9627
Présentation détaillée de la carte :
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Album cartes postales département de l'Aisne :
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G. de Rango, phot., à Gonesse (S.-et-O.)
20 May 2025 - A freight charter is about to pass the bridge over the Funboån stream near Funbo between Gunsta and Marielund, on the Uppsala – Faringe “Lennekatten” museum railway. This is an 891 mm narrow gauge line (2 ft 11+3⁄32), = old Swedish 3-foot gauge. The locomotive is a 2-8-0 (140 or 1-D also called Consolidation type) built in 1909 in Sweden by Vagn- & Maskinfabriken in Falun for the Byvalla - Långshyttans Järnväg (BLJ).
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250520 – 3023
Bonjour à tous, en ce dimanche 18 mai 2025, la 140C27 du GADEFT était en tête de cette circulation touristique entre Béziers et Clermont-Ferrand organisée par l'association du Train À Vapeur d'Auvergne.
L'occasion pour les nombreux photographes présents d'admirer une locomotive à vapeur sur la ligne des Causses.
Le convoi est vu aux Monts-Verts (48).
Merci encore aux 2 associations pour l'organisation de cette belle journée.
May 16, 2025 - We are in Finland, in the Cajania region (Kainuu in Finnish), Sotkamo municipality, on the Vuokatti – Nurmes section of the Joensuu – Kontiomäki line (broad gauge : 1520 mm). The wood-fired locomotive #995 of the HV3 series (built in 1938) hauls a charter train from Vuokatti toward Nurmes. It is passing an isolated area, south of the Saviaho halt, north of the Maanselka station.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250516 – 5210
Bonjour à tous, le dimanche 18 mai 2025 était noté dans mon agenda depuis quelques mois déjà.
Tout comme l'an dernier, la 140C27 du GADEFT assure des circulations touristiques du Train à Vapeur d'Auvergne entre mai et octobre.
Le trajet choisi pour relier Nîmes où est basée la locomotive et Clermont-Ferrand ne pouvait que me plaire : via la ligne des Causses.
Voici la deuxième photo de la journée réalisée sur le viaduc d'Aguessac (12).
La BB 67456 de la CMR a bien été utile en pousse pour affronter les sévères rampes de la ligne.
Je remercie encore les deux associations pour l'organisation de cette belle journée.
On the double-track Martin – Horná Štubňa, the 475-196 coming from Vrútky with a rack of authentic vintage passenger cars is running at full speed, offering us our first picture of the day. It is passing without stop the Rakovo Príbovce station, where an old telegraphic pole is still standing up.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250509 – 2449
A series of steam charter “photo trains” was organized on May 9, 10 and 11 in central Slovakia, within the perimeter Vrútky - Banská Bystrica – Zvollen - Prievidza and the most scenic mountain lines were used. One of them was the spectacular section Banská Bystrica - Dolná Štubňa of the line 170 Zvolen – Vrútky. The picture shows the 556-036 climbing westward towards the summit of the line exiting the Rábkinský Tunnel.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 250511 – 2340
November 8, 2022 - On the Vale of Rheidol Railway, the 2-6-2T #7 named Owain Glyndŵr (Owen Glendower in English) is approaching an antiquated 10 mph speed limit sign near Nantyronen. That is half the max speed of the locomotive.
This railway has a unique gauge of 603mm or 1 ft 11+3⁄4 in in the barbaric British system.
Photo © JM Frybourg – 221108-6375
Heritage artifacts are racing on the A4085 and the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway in October 2022. The coach is a Bedford OR manufactured by Bedford between 1939 and 1951 and the locomotive is a 2-6-2T built in 1906 by Hunslet.
Photo © JM Frybourg – 221030-2174
Photo © JM Frybourg – 221030-2718
On the Ffestiniog railway, at Boston Lodge, November 3, 2022.
Photo © JM Frybourg – 221103-7686
Photo © JM Frybourg – 221027-0120
Speed effect on the driving wheels of the Bulgarian steam engine 150 16.27, of German origin.
This picture was made possible thanks to the friendly help of Bernd Seiler – Thank you Bernd.
Photo © B Seiler - JM Frybourg – 221027-9045
24 October 2022 – Septemvri, Bulgaria
Parked in front of her healthcare facility – the Septemvri locomotive depot - this old and tired lady is awaiting care that might never come.
Loaded on a standard gauge car, this 600 mm-gauge steamer carrying the 460-70 number has been waiting there for years. But there is little hope it will be rebuilt in operating condition given that it is not compatible with the 760 mm gauge on the Rhodope railway.
Bernd Seiler, who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of steam locomotives, tells us that this engine is a “Brigade locomotive” built by Henschel in 1917 with the builder’s number 15065.
Henschel 15065/1917 was delivered as "HF 1052" - where HF means Heeresfeldbahn = Army field railway - to the Eisenbahn-Ersatzpark in Berlin. After the end of WW1, the locomotive was transferred to the Bulgarian State Railways in 1920, which classified it as BDZ 470-60. There is evidence of the locomotive being used on the 57-kilometer Kaspican - Todor - Ikonomovo line between 1946 and 1965. – Thank you Bernd.
It was probably sent to Septemvri for preservation because this is where the national Bulgarian railway BDZ has workshops able to take care and maintaining the narrow-gauge steam engines of the Rhodope railway. In fact, today, there are lots of such “precious ruins” in Septemvri, and only one operational steamer, the 2-10-2-Tank 609-76.
I hope that you like how I processed the picture: comments are more than welcome!
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 221024-6115
The locomotive #609-76, a 2-10-2-Tank, climbs the grade north of Tsepina (at Km 13.6) on the 760 mm gauge Rhodope railway in southern Bulgaria.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 221024-6702
On the Rosenthalbahn (Rosen Valley Railway), the Rosenbach viaduct is the most remarkable bridge. Unfortunately the line is now unused because the maintenance cost is too high to keep running trains on it. The FarRail charters in October 2024 were probably the last trains to be seen on this magnificent bridge. The charter participants who paid for the steam train benefited from a total of 10 eastward runpasts on October 12 and 4 westbound on the morning of October 13, to allow for pictures under almost all possible angles.
The steam engine is the ex-ÖBB 93.1332 (formerly numbered 378.32), a 2-8-2-Tank built by the Wien Florisdorf factory in 1927 and designed for branch line services. It is now owned by NBiK, Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Carinthia nostalgy railroads) and works mostly on the Rosentaler Dampfzüge tourist railway between Weizelsdorf and Ferlach and sometimes west of Weizelsdorf on the Rosentalbahn.
© Jean-Marc Frybourg – 241013-3102