The Diesels

I've made a lot of pictures where I was standing and panning the camera along the path the moving picture subject. This is, mathematically, equivalent to the subject staying stationary, while I and the background move in the opposite direction. This picture, taken from a train hauled by the green swedish locomotive, was taken to see how this would work in practice.

The front locomotive is a german Köf III, later class 332, a small shunter with 177 kW (240 PS) power for use in stations and yards. A number of these units, built from 1959 to 1965, is still in use, having received updates such as remote control, but their number is dwindling. Classified as a "Kleinlok" (small locomotive), it does not fulfill all mainline standards. Most interesting is that you can remove the cab, so that you can put it in two pieces on a flat car. If you tried to move it to a repair shop under it's own power, it would block all traffic.

The one in the rear is much more interesting and I'm going to post a better picture of it later (if I find one...). It is a dutch class 600, essentially the same as the British Rail class 08 (technically, both have the same ancestor in the british class 11).

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