Nostalgia & History > Where & When and on what RR Line ?

Hint #1
Only someone with way too much time on their hands will get this one.

DaveL

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WAG:  Western Pacific on the HiLine.  I have no idea when.  My only logic for WP is that they seemed to like those big plows.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/04/16 22:54 by LarryB.

Is the plow a Henschel?  Maybe German?

Norvel, CA (highest point on the Hi-Line) on #3.

Tom Y

Norway, on the Bergensbana (crosses the mountains between Oslo and Bergen), somewhere on the approach to Hardangervidda? (Must be a low-alititude section, because the higher-altitude sections of the line over the Hardangervidda are well above timberline.) 
Date could be anywhere between line opening (27 November 1909) and dieselization (started 1958; diesels replaced on through trains by electrification in 1964).

Here is a "warm summertime" view, copied from Wikipedia (link below), of a freight train about to enter the new summit tunnel (opened 1992) at Finse.  Note the glaciers in the background.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Bergensbanen2.jpg/1920px-Bergensbanen2.jpg
More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Line

- Doug Debs

Doug, you are --almost-- a genius !
But, not quite......your country is correct, not the rest.

DaveL

I'm familiar with the Bergensbana before the massive infrastructure upgrades (new summit tunnel at Finse, etc) that started in the 1980s, after North Sea oil-drilling money started pouring into Norway.

As a University of California exchange student in Bergen 1973-1974, I rode the Bergensbana more than 24 times.  It's an awesome trip through the mountains, summer or winter.  Student discounts made train travel very affordable.  Occasionally I would take the noon train from Bergen to Oslo.  It arrived around 7:40pm.  I had just enough time to get to the National Theatre to see a play with Liv Ullman, and then dash back to the station to catch the night sleeper train back to Bergen.  (Ah, the nearly limitless energy of youth!)  During the winter, I would often see the rotary snowplow at Finse, pushed by a Di-3 diesel locomotive (basically a double-ended F-unit carbody with SD9 mechanical features: 1750HP EMD 16-567 engine, 3-axle C-C trucks to spread out the weight; built under license by Nohab in Trollhättan, Sweden).

So if its not on the Bergensbana, I'd guess maybe its on the Gudbrandsdal line between Oslo and Trondheim?

- Doug

Ah Doug, you make me very jealous !!!
But, you have forgotten the one line in Norway that I consider even better than the Oslo-Bergen Line.
There are cab rides of 9:50 hours in all four seasons; The Nordland Line from Trondheim to Bodo.
Here is the URL for the NRK tv show that- IF- you know Norwegian is very informative. It is taken from the raw 9:50 hour footage. (All 4 are on U-Tube)

Nordlandsbanen: Minutt for minutt – NRK.no

Dave L