I'm sure most railway photographers on flickr know about the traffic situation caused by the closure of the line between Berlin and Hamburg. Being faced with the fact that the loco hauled regios and ICs should disappear with May 1st we started planning a day trip on the line between Lübeck and Bad Kleinen. Unbeknownst to us, the diversions were prolongued by 2 weeks, but no matter.
Coming from a country with limited railfan presence (in comparisson to places like Czechia, Slovakia, Germany, Hungary, the UK) it was weird for us to see photographers on every single spot we went to, given that nothing special was happening on that day - just standard everyday traffic, like it has been for what I think is over a year now. Not a common sight in Poland at all, so I can count that as a slight culture shock.
In the afternoon of 26.04.2026 we positioned ourselves on the very well known fields near Naschendorf, where we waited for the RE 56858 Bad Kleinen - Lübeck Hbf pushed by 418.425 with the DB Gebrauchtzug 'slogan'. Interestingly, the loco carries a yellow triangle on the cowcatchers, which, from what I gather, is a typical feature of locos from the Kempten depot.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Grüße an alle getrofffenen Fotografen!
