Seehas Railway in Constance

Seehas Railway in Constance, GermanyThe ‘Seehas’ is a rail link between Constance (Konstanz) and Engen. The name doesn’t derive from the existing fish ‘Seehase‘ (lumpsucker), but from a fabulous creature supposed to live in the western part of Lake Constance. People there believe the ‘Seehas’ is a hybrid of a rabbit and a fish.

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Rail snowplow in Wörgl

Rail snowplow in Wörgl, Austria

Rail snowplow 9981 9592 506-5 seen at railway station Wörgl in the Austrian state Tyrol.

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Torpedo car in Duisburg

A torpedo car in Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, Germay

On my night stroll through the Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, an industrial heritage park in Ruhr area,  I came across this torpedo car. These cars are used for hauling molten pig iron from the blast furnace to the next processing unit.

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High speed trains versus local trains

At the tunnel between Vienna and Sankt Pölten

Today I took the high speed train from Zurich to Budapest passing the new 13 km long tunnel (Wienerwaldtunnel) between Sankt Pölten and Vienna which had been opened the day before. So what was my first impression? Ok, the train was fast but as you can imagine there is nothing to see in such a tunnel. Which brought an interesting question to me…

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