16:51 at Moosbach

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4:51 from Moosbach!

I am in a hurry and need to catch my train at 4:51 pm at the Moosbach station.

From the station bridge i a can see in the evening light my train coming in on track No. 2 with a S3/6 or Class 18 engine how this engines called today ahead.

Quick now over the bridge and across the little market on the station square into the station building

I need to cross now platform 1 to reach track No.2, but the crossing over track No1. is closed by the supervisor.

4:51 PM from Moosbach

Finally the way to platform 2 is free and I can enter my express train.

I check my watch and find i still have some time before the train departs.

Under the big elm tree on the station square i reach the cool station inside to get to the ticket counter

I am lucky, there are no other passengers lining up and so i am a view minutes later outside again on my way to the train.

The reason for this gets soon visible. With loud humming of the vents and chattering circuit switches a huge

E 94 engine with a long freight train comes over the nearby bridge.

My train includes today a sleeping car as destination coach Zurich - Hoek van Holland. This car is attracting attention which its shiny blue colour and the golden letters „CIWL Voiture Lits“.

I just found a seat with a view to the other track at the platform, when a engine whistle is blowing to give notice of the arrival of another train. We can hear a swoosh of the arriving train on the nearby steel bridge.

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With as loud squeaking noise from the brakes and blowing safety valves the engine 18601 comes to a stop at the platform

18601 is the first of the 1953 reconstructed and modernised Bavarian S3/6 of the former class 18500 with a complete welded boiler and combustion chamber.

The E 94 007 should have not any problems with the empty train with their six cannon box engines and is rolling easily along the platform. The departure signal shows green and so the train can continue without interruption its journey.

The endless seeming, ear splitting and tinny chattering string of cars is rattling and rumpling while passing us and it seems boring and interesting together with the dynamic this huge mass of wagons are moving.

The cars are raising a cloud of coal dust which is forcing me to move a view steps backwards.

The reconstructed engines are reaching 1900 PSi which created excellent long distance runners with a maximum speed of 120 Km/h.

So i take my time to have a closer look to the today's engine No. 18601.

It is really one of the reconstructed Bavarian S 3/6

with a powerful new constructed boiler.