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Published: 2017-09-16 21:42:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 640; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 3
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Antwerp North Yard (Belgium), September 16th 20176204 is just a shadow of her former self. Β Taken on charge by the Belgian Railways on September 14th 1962 - 55 years and 2 days ago - as Type 212 no. 212.104, she was withdrawn from service on December 9th 2007.
Ten years out in the elements, while being used as a spares bank for her many siblings that are still in service, have done the formerly proud machine no good...
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Ah, this looks a bit like the locos I photographed in the 1970s!
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Those are the very same ones indeed!
From your visit, you might recognise them in a slightly different livery:
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However, the most common livery in which they could be seen in the past thirty-odd years was the 'yellow diesel livery', which was applied to the larger share of the Series 62/63
In recent years, though, Infrabel, their current owner (all of the Series 62/63 diesels went to Infrabel when the railways split up into the passenger holding NMBS; the freight holding B-Logistics (now Lineas); and the infrastructure holding Infrabel 10 years ago) has started modernising a number of these venerable locomotives, which comes with a nice and crisp livery of their own...
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Ah yes! Thanks Kanyiko! Β
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Is it me or Trains especially old ones have some sort of a cool aura around them? @_@
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You might actually have something there.Β New trains certainly don't have the same aura about them - but then again, maybe the 'old' ones didn't either back when they were new! >.>
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My country has 2 old trains from the ottoman era and the english occupation i think and they are still working, well at least one of them >.> and my Semester in the university just started, so will see when i can go there and take some photos of it^^
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... You are not alone! ...Β Β
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