Something like that anyway...

Well, following my successful trawl at Thekla Station yesterday, I decided to make good use of the wonderful weather we're having once again, and revisit the same location for another set of images. You will find my catch right below...

It's been a while for me to spot a 151! Here, 151 036 was heading east with a string of four-wheel hoppers.

The first positioning move I witnessed was 145 010...

...soon followed by Pressnitztalbahn's 140 041 – actually, 140 810 – heading the other way. Pressnitztalbahn chose to use running numbers for their small fleet of 140s differing from the numbers retained for the same locomotives in the National Vehicle Register. The "real" 140 041 was retired and scrapped in 2005.

For the suburbanites, I should like to present this scene of 1442 111 and 1442 210, the former working the S 37422 service to Eilenburg and the latter standing by to work the S 37425 service to Geithain.

A Container trailing tankers: 155 246 with a mixed formation of oil tankers and open high-side eight-wheel wagons.

Next, 233 698 woke up everyone who might still have been asleep while she was rolling through with a rake of flat wagons with a load of ballast.

When I encountered 266 106 of ITL on a string of coal hoppers for the third time in a week, I was getting a distinct feeling of déjà-vu. Note the row of timetable booklets lined up behind the right-hand windscreen – which is quite common on German Sheds.

Today, 101 038 was on freight duty.

An unusual sight at this station: 411 007, one of those ICE-T sets shared with ÖBB.

Next, 101 022 was repositioning herself...

...and followed by 155 040 heading a string of empty car carriers.

It seemed like 101 022 had replaced 101 038, which was returning singly.

It's also been a while for me to spot a 186, so I got doubly lucky when I first captured 186 242 of ITL with a rake of sliding wall bogie vans...

...and LTE's 186 238 heading a string of cereal hoppers.

And finally, 185 225 came in with a mixed rake of flat wagons with concrete sleepers and gravel hoppers...

...while 442 211 was returning from Cottbus on the RE 18458 service. Do not confuse this set with 1442 211 from the Central German suburban fleet!

Hope you enjoyed this little set of snapshots!