European Railroad Discussion > Some scenes from Leipzig

a few scenes of the station and preserved rollingstock i saw in Leipzig last fall

i beleive most of these  locomotives and rail cars were built for the Third Reich era in the 30s and perhaps earlier for the electric locomotives

the Flying Hamburger  could be the rail car on display?

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Very interesting set of pictures bakersfielddave! Yes, wasn't that the "Flying Hamburger" (the little blue-cream aerodynamic diesel train)

To my surprise, there were similar drawings at DSB museum in Odense, Denmark, which might mean that in addition to running to Hamburg, these might actually have been in wider use. Even on international routes. Maybe our German friends can help on more info? One question I always think when I see these is that were these used to replace supposedly more costly steam hauled trains?


 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/15 02:23 by McKey.

McKey Wrote:
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> Very interesting set of pictures bakersfielddave!
> Yes, wasn't that the "Flying Hamburger" (the
> little blue-cream aerodynamic diesel train)
>
> To my surprise, there were similar drawings at DSB
> museum in Odense, Denmark,.......>


137 225 is not "the" Flying Hamburger, the one off machine built in 1933, and which is in the Nürnberg Transport Museum, I believe;  rather, it is one of the 13 production "Hamburg" type of 1935, which were employed on various intercity runs to / from Berlin, including Hamburg..

The drawings in Odense are no doubt of the various DSB Lyntog type machines of the '30's -- see my post a few months ago with a photo of one.

Best, SZ

Thank you for correcting Steinzeit. Looks like the Flying Hamburger front windows were much lower indeed, maybe trying to create even more aerodynamic design. Hamburger (in the picture above) builkding time 1935 coincides with those of Danish production trains. I'm happy Germany has managed to save at least two of these, as none of the DSB owned tyo my knowledge seem to have survived. DSB had both 3 and 4 car versions, some drawings of these can be found below. It was time before license manufacturing so much was copied, from the timing and at the time high tech it might yet well be that the Danish trains actually was license built. 

Steinzeit Wrote:
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> 137 225 is not "the" Flying Hamburger, the one off
> machine built in 1933, and which is in the
> Nürnberg Transport Museum, I believe;  rather,
> it is one of the 13 production "Hamburg" type of
> 1935, which were employed on various intercity
> runs to / from Berlin, including Hamburg..
>
> The drawings in Odense are no doubt of the various
> DSB Lyntog type machines of the '30's -- see my
> post a few months ago with a photo of one.
>
> Best, SZ

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Dave,

You might enjoy my writeup that I posted in 2011 of my November 2010 visit there.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?17,2361968,2363817#msg-2363817

Pictures of the historical equipment are here:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?17,2377185,2377202#msg-2377202

I meant to go back later an add all the descriptions (as I was trying to post other parts of the travelogue), but forgot, and then, a year later, lost access to that login....  :(

 



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