Well, here be another round of images from Leipzig... My focus for today was to capture a few freight trains in the snow, to which end I rode out to Thekla Station in the northeast of the city. The station is served by hourly stopping services on the line to Eilenburg, so I had sufficient time in any case.

I think I'll just jump into the photos now...

At Central Station, I first captured 143 130 which was diagrammed to work the RB 26140 service to Lutherstadt Wittenberg. After that, I went over to the Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn class 650 DMU standing next to this train to head out to Thekla.

HHPI loco 29004 "Dave Meehan" opened the round of freights, trailing a rake of coal hoppers. This was the first of two Eurosheds I captured today.

Then came a trip freight headed by 294 662 and an unidentified class 364 or 365 shunter dead in tow – which was a rather unusual setup, in my opinion. I somehow missed this image when I first posted this entry...

This here was a loco positioning service, consisting of three class 140 electrics and headed by 140 858.

This service was headed by 185 044 and consisted of just four tank wagons. To the left, another class 650 DMU from Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn came in on another service to Eilenburg.

This here was the RE 26058 service from Hoyerswerda to Leipzig Central, which but did not call at Thekla. The locomotive was 143 015, this being barely visible with all that ice and snow on the front!

This locomotive was 204 237, this being a former DR V 100 type diesel-hydraulic loco now owned by private TOC Westsächsische Eisenbahntransport Gesellschaft. It was originally put into service as 110 237 on 17 April 1970, and rebuilt into a class 112 loco in 1983. The wagons behind it are covered car carriers.

And another Euroshed came along in the shape of HHPI loco 29006, or 92 80 1266 028-0 D-HHPI, heading a rake of coal hoppers. The loco was built in August 2003.

155 220 was out for work as well, heading a mixed freight.

185 573, owned by MRCE and leased to Railservice Alexander Neubauer, headed a queue of open bogie wagons.

This would be the last train I snapped during my session as it was getting quite cold by that time. The locos were a pair of ex-DR V 100 diesel-hydraulics owned by Havelländische Eisenbahn, or hvle. The leading loco was V 160.7, also known as 92 80 1203 150-8 D-HVLE, and built as 110 342 in 1971.

After this, I returned to the city and got myself a cup of coffee to warm up!