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European Railroad Discussion > Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg Thursday Morning April 28 2016

Our first mission for the day was to return the rental car to the airport. That being done we all got Day Passes and rode the S-Bahn toward Wilhelmsburg. The S-Bahn in Hamburg operates off third rail and uses wagons somewhat smaller than regular railways.
1) S-1 at the airport.
2) S-Bahn tracks are located along the east wall of the main Haputbahnhof in Hamburg making an easy connection to mainline trains.

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Our friend Lars suggested Wilhelmsburg as a good place to watch trains. Passenger trains coming south from the main Hamburg Hauptbahnhof pass there along with part of the freight trains depending on which part of the port they are going to. It is a morning place as the S-Bahn shelter is on the east side of the tracks. Lots of track work being done as it looked like part of a yard was being put back into service. Lots of new but inactivated signals up around the area as well. The nice part about the Wilhelmsburg stop is that you are protected from the weather under the station canopy which cam in handy.
3) Not too long after getting of the S-Bahn at Wilhelmsburg the first train came past with heavy wet snowstorm.
4) We would see that lead unit 186247-3 the following day at Harburg.
5) The first two container flats have to be at least 80ft long since it has a 40 sandwiched between two 20 foot containers.

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It continued to snow and rain and several pictures didn't turn out but then the clouds broke all in less than ten minutes.
6 & 7) Variety, RE-3 to Ulezin 
8) This is good look at what was going on. Looking at Google Maps all this area was grown over.

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I embeded the websites for help in understanding what you are looking at. Take a look at the Gallery page on the RTS site after you look at this thread. I think the RTS people like trains.
9) A better look at that NorthRail Class 270. NorthRail is one of many a locomotive leasing firms in Germany.
10 & 11) An RTS Rail Transport Service GMBH train showed up.

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Not unlike Britain just when you go to take pictures of a train you get blocked by other trains. In this case a steel coil that blocked the RTS train was blocked by an S-Bahn train. It would have been perfect light on the steel coil train.
12-14) Steel coil trains look good no matter what country you are in. Well they'd look better without the graffiti of course.

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15) Three trains in one shot. This is the best shot of the rear of a freight train Germany. Looks like they only have some kind of reflective signs on the rear.
16) The RTS train was moving slow enough that I got pictures of most of the cars.

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17 & 18) What all that stuff does I do not know?
19) RE-5 to Cuxhaven. Diesel pulled and we would get see better what happens to it in nearby Harburg.

Thank You for Looking!

Jim

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Heres the exterior of Hamburg HBF. One of the coolest stations in Europe.

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