22-Feb-2013
I was quite disappointed when Captrain lost the coke contract last December and their attractive green-gray 66s were making themselves rare in this area.
There had been rumblings of a reroute of a once-weekly flow of aluminum slabs from Dunkerque to Nievenheim, and they started running last week. SNCF-Fret used to exchange them to HGK in Cologne for the remainder of the trip. Now they hand them to Captrain in Kinkempois who takes them over the L24 to Aachen-West and then up the 485 to their destination in the Düsseldorf area.
This then is the second train, caught in abysmal light (hence the b&w treatment) and a freezing northeasterly wind during my lunch break.
Captrain 6601 brings the aluminum train 48515 (Kinkempois/B - Nievenheim) through Kohlscheid.
I was quite disappointed when Captrain lost the coke contract last December and their attractive green-gray 66s were making themselves rare in this area.
There had been rumblings of a reroute of a once-weekly flow of aluminum slabs from Dunkerque to Nievenheim, and they started running last week. SNCF-Fret used to exchange them to HGK in Cologne for the remainder of the trip. Now they hand them to Captrain in Kinkempois who takes them over the L24 to Aachen-West and then up the 485 to their destination in the Düsseldorf area.
This then is the second train, caught in abysmal light (hence the b&w treatment) and a freezing northeasterly wind during my lunch break.
Captrain 6601 brings the aluminum train 48515 (Kinkempois/B - Nievenheim) through Kohlscheid.
22-Feb-2013
I was quite disappointed when Captrain lost the coke contract last December and their attractive green-gray 66s were making themselves rare in this area.
There had been rumblings of a reroute of a once-weekly flow of aluminum slabs from Dunkerque to Nievenheim, and they started running last week. SNCF-Fret used to exchange them to HGK in Cologne for the remainder of the trip. Now they hand them to Captrain in Kinkempois who takes them over the L24 to Aachen-West and then up the 485 to their destination in the Düsseldorf area.
This then is the second train, caught in abysmal light (hence the b&w treatment) and a freezing northeasterly wind during my lunch break.
Captrain 6601 brings the aluminum train 48515 (Kinkempois/B - Nievenheim) through Kohlscheid.
I was quite disappointed when Captrain lost the coke contract last December and their attractive green-gray 66s were making themselves rare in this area.
There had been rumblings of a reroute of a once-weekly flow of aluminum slabs from Dunkerque to Nievenheim, and they started running last week. SNCF-Fret used to exchange them to HGK in Cologne for the remainder of the trip. Now they hand them to Captrain in Kinkempois who takes them over the L24 to Aachen-West and then up the 485 to their destination in the Düsseldorf area.
This then is the second train, caught in abysmal light (hence the b&w treatment) and a freezing northeasterly wind during my lunch break.
Captrain 6601 brings the aluminum train 48515 (Kinkempois/B - Nievenheim) through Kohlscheid.
See photo in original gallery.