European Railroad Discussion > The Czech Republic last week - it's not all grey!

Spent the holiday weekend and the first half of the week in Southern Bohemia and Moravia, based in Brno the country's second city. I drove from Brno to Jindrichuv Hradec to see the 750 mm JHRD narrow gauge railway, which operates a public service over two lines using loco hauled stock and some remarkable looking railcars (unfortunately painted grey). Ceske Drahy, the state passenger operator, and CD Cargo, the principal freight operator, use blue as their prime colour. These were taken on Sunday and Monday.

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Your third shot is outstanding.

Bob Wilcox
Charlottesville, VA
My Flickr Shots

Thanks Bob, once you climbed up to the bluffs overlooking the bridge it's a great view.

bobwilcox Wrote:
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> Your third shot is outstanding.

Yes, that's a great scene!

I like the rdc with round windows!  Strange but neat!

Thanks for the pictures.
David

Nick

Yes, number three is the best.  Downright artsy. 

The other two are interesting.  The electric freight engine with no front coupler.  
Open air autoracks, which I haven't seen in America since the early 70's.  
All of the cars on the bottom of the rack were wrapped in white plastic.  

The second photo I had to think about.  I think the angled front windows must be to improve visibility
in certain areas, such as street running.   The round windows gives it an Art Deco look. 

Thank you for posting these photos. 

Larry



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Your third picture is a Postcard view......excellent.
Chris

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  The electric
> freight engine with no front coupler.  
It has a coupler, but it is a standard European hook and screw link, like almost every other vehicle has.

Thanks - open autoracks are generally the rule in Europe and yes, many of the cars, VW SUVs, were covered in plastic, I noticed that for the first time a couple of weeks back on a train of Land Rover SUVs passing through London. And, as spflow points out, the loco has a screw coupler



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My first thought when seeing photo #2 was, "Wow!  A Czech McKeen car!"  Excellent photos!  Do you have any more to post showing the narrow gauge?

Three or four years ago my son spent the summer taking college classes in Salzburg. On weekends he traveled to Vienna, Berlin and Munich, but he really liked his weekend in Prague and Czech Republic.

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> My first thought when seeing photo #2 was, "Wow! 
> A Czech McKeen car!"  Excellent photos!  Do you
> have any more to post showing the narrow gauge?

Yep - see here http://nick86235.smugmug.com/Trains/2015/Around-the-Czech-Republic-May/i-RcRHntj

Absolutely great stuff Nick!

Anyone, what is the second guppy fish looking contraption classified as? It's amazing! Some industrial designer truly has had free hands to draw what ever he/she wishes!

The railcars are class M27