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ex-CSD #498.022 At Beroun, Bohemia (CZ), 2007

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:52:01 +0000

Here's another shot that I took of 498.022 in Beroun, on the way back to Prague. Trains from Krivoklat to Prague have to be turned here, as the track layout forms a wye, so here 498.022 was being turned.

CSD Coal Stove, Krivoklat, Bohemia (CZ), 2007

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:52:01 +0000

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Ceskoslovenske Drahy used coal stoves for heating trains until surprisingly late in their history, and this particular passenger car wasn't built until the early 1940s, although it looks 100 years older because of all the wooden construction, and if you could see the outside, it's 4-wheel undercarriage, devoid of modern trucks or bogies. Rolling stock like this could be seen in Czech movies as late as the 1980s, although I don't know the precise year that they were pulled from regular service.

ex-CSD #498.022 Passing Krivoklat, Bohemia (CZ), 2007

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:51:01 +0000

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Here's our train back to Prague, although in reality it's passing through Krivoklat on the way to pick up our train. In the end the train was closer to 42 cars, rather than 3!! That's a record for my train travels, actually. The locomotive, ex-CSD 498.022 is a Ceskoslovenske Drahy Class 498 4-8-2, the same class as 498.106, "Albatros," which set a Czech speed record for steam locomotives at 162Km/h in 1964.