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Published: 2016-01-16 13:49:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 827; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 12
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Spontin station, August 16th 2015Prussian P8 64.169 waits inbetween two services at the annual Bocq Steam Gala.
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Beautiful engine!Β Glad to see her still running.
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She's currently actually stabled for maintenance now, so for the first time in over three decades there actually isn't a single Belgian mainline steamer operational (29.013 is still undergoing conversion to ETCS; 41.195 is still awaiting a full rebuild, not having run since 1959; and 26.101 is still a pile of parts, with her boiler over in the UK for complete rebuild; 10.018, 12.004 and 18.051 are PWFU at the Schaerbeek Museum; 1.002 is PWFU at the Treignes Museum; and 64.065 is at the Steenbrugge depot, she hasn't run since 1967 and probably never will anymore)
Actually, ironically the only Belgian mainline steamer still running at the moment is... a German in Germany.Β DRG 50 133 was captured by the Allies in Belgium during the liberation, and handed to the Belgian Railways as 25.014.Β She was returned to Germany in 1950, and renumbered as DB 50 622 in 1958.Β She's currently part of the collection of the DB Museum in NΓΌrnberg.
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She certainly is. :3
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Thank you for the kind compliment!! ^_^
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Quite so, isn't it?
It's ever such a regret that so few of them were preserved over here. Β "169" is not an original; Belgium had 167 of them in service (from 1919 onwards), with a 168th temporally joining the ranks after the end of World War II (abandoned by the German railways in 1944, and returned to Germany in 1950). Β Of the originals, only 64.045 survives, and it's currently not on display.
64.169 only arrived here around the turn of the century, being a Prussian P8 that ended up with the Romanian railways after World War II. Β She was purchased by railway enthousiasts in the 1990s and converted to "Belgian" standards in the ensuing years.
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who is fantastic, unbelievable that this wonderful technique has survived to our times, it is great and beautiful.
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Thank you! ^_^
I hardly get enough opportunities over here to shoot pictures of these wonderful machines under their own power... :/
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Ah but you do quality rather than quantity Kanyiko!
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I'm truly honoured by your comment!!
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