Re: Hard to find - but worth the effort

While the obsolete steam engines we admire will still be around for a long time (in small numbers anyway), the media we used to record them in the steam era are disappearing much faster along with the support equipment used to save them to the digital era. I no longer dare to run movie film through my projectors, and the number of outfits digitizing movies has shrunk drastically. Once cameras for the various tape based video formats like 8mm, Hi 8, digital 8, and mini-DV give up the ghost, that part of RR history will be lost too (those formats never had VCRs). So it is not surprising if conversion equipment for negatives and slides will disappear eventually also. Time to save the best while it is still feasible.

The engineer of 4-6-2 01 168 is waiting impatiently for the completion of mail, express and baggage loading before heading north from Regensburg to Hof in May, 1969



Two hours and 17 minutes later, 01 168 has arrived in Hof, having hauled heavy express D141 111 miles with 5 intermediate stops, including a total of 8 minutes of scheduled station dwell time. Now the engine is backing to the engine facilities for servicing.





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