Hi, Guys, it's me Driverwoods#1787 and when I was roaming Riesa Bahnhof & Gbf on foot I took pictures of these two towers. Does anyone know what they are? If related to steam locomotives. matching the route is a DDR Deutsche Reichsbahn steam locomotives 18 201 52.80 65.10. My last picture is the 15kv 16.7 hz Substation on the West end of Riesa Gbf. Use the free camera function to take it Substation 15kv
Water crane for steam engines, indeed. But I haven´t the faintest idea what the heck they´re doing there?!?! Leipzig - Dresden was electrified quite early, in the 1960s if I´m not mistaken. Must´ve been the latest DTG Update. Ah well, good luck with the OHLE.
I Checked the German Wikipedia it was in 1969 when the entire Leipzig Riesa-Dresden route was electrified . This is actually evident in game with the substation on the Leipzig end of Riesa Gbf. Remember East Germany doesn't have reliable trains that's why they still run steam locomotives all the way to the reunification of Germany even though steam was phased out in 1988.
Sounds like a cliché to me. I was a passenger on that route as a student in the 1980s. Uncountable times! Never saw a steamer there. And trust me, I would´ve noticed, as I was a train buff already by that time. When electric failed (happened mostly in Winter) a beloved BR 132 would haul the train straight away to Dresden. Aaahhh that sound ... Anyway ..... and point being: This water crane has nothing to do there in a scenery of 2012 or 2017. EDIT: The water cranes are STILL there, as it seems. MY mistake!
Thank you for telling me about it and we are getting the DR BR132 for Ruhr-Sieg Nord. The electric locomotive are you referring to DR BR243 Which comes with Riesa-Dresden Tharandter Rampe Dresden Chemnitz ( your generation called it Karl Marx Stadt) and Ruhr Sieg Nord or DR BR250 the freight locomotive dlc Ruhr Sieg Nord
In many cases, it's not worth the time and money to rip out old equipment, even if it's no longer needed. That's why so many turntables are still in place. (On a smaller scale, most older US locomotives carried classification lights well into the 1990s, though they hadn't been used for decades)
The electric workhorse of that time for the DR was the BR 211/242.. The BR 243 came into the game mid 1980s to the well known end. BR 250 (155) was mainly driving heavy freight, but sometimes could be see also on "fast" Intercity. On a side note: It was not "my generation" who called Chemnitz "Gorl-Murgs-Stadd", but a bunch of bonehead commies in their ideologic delirium.
