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cab ride from Viechtach to Munich. Plattling here https://youtu.be/XsWWDUeskQg?t=549

Wonderful photo taken by Phil Metcalfe today https://www.flickr.com/photos/philmetcalfe/45392721091

This is locomotive 218 256, a bettter view of it in the photo below https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/22868939724/in/album-72157646518188131/ I wonder where it was coming from/going to? Diesel trains are quite rare unless they are going to Deggendorf on the branch line, so maybe to there?

Which locomotive is this please? http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201703241830 http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201703241845

What kind of wagons are these please? http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201703170730

These links give information of where timetabled freight should be (the grey info is freight). It doesn't account for live information if the freight is early/late or cancelled but it should give some useful information. The kbs number is the train line reference which you can change to get a different area. These are the lines that serve Plattling http://www.zugfinder.de/kbs.php?kbs=880 http://www.zugfinder.de/kbs.php?kbs=905 http://www.zugfinder.de/kbs.php?kbs=931 It works quite well. For example there is a car train in Plattling right now (the live map shows nothing in Plattling, but one recently has left). You type the dgs number (the freight identifier in google/flickr) and look for a train with similar wagons. So the car train in Plattling right now is the Gyor (Hungary) to Bremen freight. http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201612031200 https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/22612778507/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/114621596@N07/16256872303/in/photolist-Asdpev-z2K6W6-qLyHKM

http://togkart.jbv.no/ has a live map of Norway with the current trains on them. The grey circles are freight trains.

Can't find it on the archive, but the new Beethoven Vectron must have visited Plattling on the 13th to collect the slurry tankers to Slovenija. Here it is in Austria. https://www.flickr.com/photos/136377227@N04/29032122364/in/dateposted/ It's a gorgeous lokomotive. You can see a better look at the livery here https://www.flickr.com/photos/133269283@N05/29701850775/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/133269283@N05/29620669151

I saw this train come in 'live' on the webcam and it was hauled by one of the shunters and there was a man on the back on the last wagon. So it must come from the Plattling paper factory / Plattling sugar factory or Deggendorf Port. It can't have come from Vilshofen as that is too far for one of the men to stand on the back of the wagon for so long. The white vans have writing on them but I can't make out what it says. It only arrives in Platting on a Monday at around 11:15 (German time). *edit* on Google Maps, it looks like the same white vans are found at Plattling Sugar Factory https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/94447+Plattling,+Germany/@48.7865673,12.8805355,184m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47750dbb9cce56d9:0x3e8be490276de975!8m2!3d48.7806071!4d12.8690362 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/94447+Plattling,+Germany/@48.7863375,12.8756587,390a,20y,90h,41.53t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47750dbb9cce56d9:0x3e8be490276de975!8m2!3d48.7806071!4d12.8690362 http://www.suedzucker.de/en/Unternehmen/Standorte/Zuckerfabriken-Deutschland/Werk-Plattling/

I would doubt it. It hasn't been in the good position for 4 (?) years now, but then why does the owner bother keeping it going if it isn't going to be moved back one day as the current position won't get many website visitors.

I read what I wrote after posting it and thought I must have been an idiot for thinking it was the French loco! So changed it!

is the locomotive in the sidings a Vectron? I don't recognise the livery http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201607131315

I've seen this white container train a lot on the archive but never have seen it live. However on the archive today it shows the white containers go toward the top-left of the webcam (on the way to Landshut). Does anyone know what these wagons are please? If they come from the West of Regensburg, then why do they run-around in Plattling? Does this mean they go to Dingolfing (inbetween Plattling and Landshut)? Thanks the white container train that seems to come each Monday http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201606201130 going toward the top-left of the webcam http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201606201415

What is the white locomotive please, I don't recognise this. Thanks http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201605181345

what's this in the bottom-left of the screen please? http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201605122015

Sometimes there are rare locomotives (for Plattling) that go up the branch line to Deggendorf Port (where the little green DMUs go). On Sunday & Monday (3rd & 4th of April) there was a train from Erfurt-Bischleben. http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201604041015 You can see better views from a flickr user taken at Deggendorf Port https://www.flickr.com/photos/christianlennartz/25673553163/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/christianlennartz/26184049942/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/christianlennartz/26276283755/in/dateposted/ Also in the flickr information it is described as "DGS 90968". I assume this is the German version of our codes for freight trains like 6X12 for example. How do German people find this information out? Is the a German version of realtimetrains or freightmaster that they use? I remember there was a website that had some timetable for Plattling freight, http://www.cargonautus.de/Passau.htm but that hasn't been updated in a long time.

from the 30th of January, a railadventure 139 and a Velaro destined for Turkey http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201601301330 a better photo here http://abload.de/img/139558-1d-radve8701basxi.jpg

This photo was taken just outside Plattling today https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/22868939724/ What is a trafowagen? It translates as 'transformer'.

A rare Sunday morning double-header

I missed this on the webcam but yesterday (Friday the 27th) this went from Deggendorf (the branch line off to the left of the camera) to Ingolstadt https://www.flickr.com/photos/christianlennartz/23327134696/in/dateposted/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/22747245473/in/dateposted/

I wonder where this coach had come from and where it was going?

For all class 66 fans, there is going to be a poster featuring all the 159 different liveries of the class from the U.K. mainland Europe and Africa for sale next week. http://crearail.com/archives/193 I bought the 2 other posters this company for the foreign Taurus and Traxx locomotives and they were both excellent. This company also make the http://www.railcolor.netand http://www.mainlinediesels.net websites.

they seem to have joined up and then pulled the slurry tanks westward. http://webcam.deg.net/?a=showcam&w=showarchivimage&o=pla&id=201510131530 do you know where the tanks go to after they leave Deggendorf/Plattling please?

I never cared too much for the little green DMUs but since looking at them on this Flickr user's page, I really like them. The route is very scenic after they leave Plattling as you can see here https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/21628228830/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/21825122131/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/manuel_schmid/21620345680/