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Pictures taken over the years in eastern Belgium, my usual hunting grounds.

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pointduvue > Winter time - night shot time. Here's 241 803 with a UK-bound train composed of ferry wagons in Montzen near tower 14. In the pouring rain. These units were transferred to eastern Germany in mid-December 2008.

pointduvue > 5505 brings the limestone train CS 48567 (Hermalle - Oberhausen/D) out of the Gulp Tunnel in Hindel west of Montzen yard. Routinely booked for a single class 55 unit this heavy train was the undisputed "audio king". The unit was in Run 8 all the way from Hermalle to the tunnel at Gemmenich, where the steep decent into Aachen begins.

pointduvue > Seldom-seen guests in Montzen were the class 21 electrics. Here 2122 brings a westbound mixed freight out of the Veurs Tunnel and heads into the lovely Fourons in the late afternoon sun. Great place to spend a lazy midsummer afternoon...

pointduvue > A scene unlikely to be repeated. A B-Cargo class 26 brings the empty lead ore train Stolberg/D-Antwerp westbound across the impressive bridge spanning the River Meuse in Vise. This service today is run by private operator Trainsport, a subsidiary of the German Rurtalbahn, and looks like this.

pointduvue > The StoraShuttle paper train between Zeebrugge and Köln/D was long a staple for DLC. It was the heaviest train around and gave the class 66s a decent workout. Here's PB18 leading it through Montzen on a late summer evening.

pointduvue > 2315 eastbound with a mixed bag in Vise Haut.

pointduvue > 7755 leads an empty hotmetal train through Bressoux enroute to the furnace in Ougree. That's the Jupiler brewery in the background. If you look real closely you will see there is a second, loaded, hotmetal train behind it, awaiting its entry to the single main track towards Chertal that the empty train just cleared.

pointduvue > The way things were in Nouvelaar - two 55s bring an intermodal train westbound through the large cut between Nouvelaar and Rue d'Aix. The near slope was deforested less than a year previous. Nature was regaining lost ground fast, but shots of nice sweeping vistas like this were still possible until 2005. This shot was taken in 2009 just 300m further down the track, after Infrabel deforested the hillside again, in preparation for the electrification work.

pointduvue > 2151 running light engine has just exited the Geer Tunnel on its way to Vise. The tunnel actually has a "hole" in the middle where part of the roof collapsed, apparently due to quarrying operations on the hill. A similar situation exists east of Aachen in Germany, at the Nirmer Tunnel between Eilendorf and Eschweiler; less than 80 km from here. See this picture for comparison.

Winter time - night shot time. Here's 241 803 with a UK-bound train composed of ferry wagons in Montzen near tower 14. In the pouring rain. These units were transferred to eastern Germany in mid-December 2008.

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