European Railroad Discussion > Trier Plandampf Steam Nostalgia-Part 4

Fifty years after my first visit to the Mosel Valley I returned for the Plandampf on April 28 to May 1 2018.
I thought it would be nice to post the pictures from fifty years ago.
About 100 km northeast of Trier is the beautiful town of Cochem. Fifty years ago freights had to have helpers to push up the grade through the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel.
"The Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel (KWT), operating with twin tracks, is located on the Moselle 321 corridor on line 3010 Coblenz – Perl in the Coblenz – Moselle – (Ehrang) between Cochem Station (Bf) and the Ediger-Eller part of the station (Bft) that belongs to it – between route km 48.4+18 and 52.6+23. It is 4,205 m long and was Germany’s longest railway tunnel until the new Hanover-Würzburg route was constructed in the early 1980s."
Picture 1 - Passenger train leaving Trier for Cochem.
Picture 2 - Pacific starting up the grade towards the Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel
Picture 3 - Railway facilities in Cochem. Fifty years later these are all gone. Only the run-down station remains.

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That third picture is a real classic. Thanks