Excellent video and great shots too! I am writing a book about my mother. She took the train from Rainfeld to St. Polten before heading into Seidorf, Niederschlesien back in 1941. It looks like the locomotive is a Class 77 with the passenger cars being Donnerbuchse? Is this correct? If so, they are nicknamed the "Thunderboxes" because of the amount of noise they made while rolling down the rail - rolling down the rail........
Well, the 77 at that time round St Poelten, I'm not sure if they really were running on the branch lines. Rather class 93.13/14s (Austrian 378) were typical there, at least after the war and until the end of steam. The carriages are typical for Austria after the war, called 'Spantenwagen', they were rebuilt from old Austrian carriages. Donnerbuechsen were the German pendants, many stayed in Austria after the war. But in this film there is no real Donnerbuechse to see.
Still the same, a beautiful piece of work capturing the true essence of railway travel through the foothills and the valleys of beautiful Austria.
Ooh... thanks for both!
Excellent video and great shots too! I am writing a book about my mother. She took the train from Rainfeld to St. Polten before heading into Seidorf, Niederschlesien back in 1941. It looks like the locomotive is a Class 77 with the passenger cars being Donnerbuchse? Is this correct? If so, they are nicknamed the "Thunderboxes" because of the amount of noise they made while rolling down the rail - rolling down the rail........
Well, the 77 at that time round St Poelten, I'm not sure if they really were running on the branch lines. Rather class 93.13/14s (Austrian 378) were typical there, at least after the war and until the end of steam. The carriages are typical for Austria after the war, called 'Spantenwagen', they were rebuilt from old Austrian carriages. Donnerbuechsen were the German pendants, many stayed in Austria after the war. But in this film there is no real Donnerbuechse to see.
5star, 77, 28 is a 4-6-2t