Afternoon all!

I'm back a little earlier today as it's raining rather heavily and because I did get slightly wet on my way home . The forecast says much the same for tomorrow, so I'm not sure whether I'll be able to make another photo trip.

But anyway: I went back to Leutzsch once again, hoping I might snap a couple of goods trains coming from the Leipzig Goods Belt which merges into the Leipzig-Großkorbetha Railway just outside the station. I also captured a couple of impressions of the station itself which I should like to add in - perhaps to illustrate the long death of a bygone era which I think the station represents rather well.

The first train I snapped was suburban service S 9533 on the S1 line bound for Leipzig Central Station, headed by 143 056. There were several delays on this route today, though I do not know why. Might have had to do with the weather as there also were a few short periods of thunder.

Meanwhile, 143 020 was working the RB26721 stopping service to Weißenfels.

155 229 then came from the Goods Belt and headed west.

MRCE Dispolok engine 189 207 (ES 64 F4-207) is currently hired to Polish goods operator CTL Logistics and works for their German branch - mainly on fuel trains like this one, if memory serves. It is a VO-configured engine, meaning it is equipped and certified for Germany, the Netherlands and Poland. The pantograph arrangement on the VO variant is as follows: 1,450 mm AC / 1,950 mm Dutch DC / 1,950 mm Polish DC / 1,950 mm AC - which is why the engine is operating with the rearmost pan up, the forward one being too narrow for the German OHLE.

These here were two ex-DR V100 type diesel-hydraulics, now owned by private TOC D&D. They currently have five of these engines - 1702 having been known as 110 602 while in Reichsbahn service.

And the last train I snapped today was 155 238 .