Germany 1971 German Border to East Germany at Helmstedt

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Hi all,

here are some Pics from 1971 from Helmstedt at the German Border to East Germany.

Steam and Diesel from the Deutsche Reichsbahn(DR):

DR Class 01 Pacific 01 2114 -5

DR Class 03 Light Pacific rebuild 03 2235-4

Russian Diesel DR Class V200

DR Class 118 316-6 East German built

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Very nice! I was in Germany in 1970 (when I was a kid) and well remember German steam.

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You bet. In the summer of 1976 my brother and I caught a train in Lund, Sweden, progressed to Trelleborg, Sweden, where the train, minus locomotive, was put on a ferry to Sassnitz, East Germany. To our surprise, a 4-6-2 Pacific hooked up and brought our train to East Berlin. There were many coal fired, mainline steam locomotives in the East Berlin Bahnhof. We then caught a train to Warsaw, Poland, where we also saw mainline steam. Big fun for a 25 year old…

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Thank you Karl-Heinz for sharing these pictures! Incredible as it may seem it looks like they actually still used steam then.

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Thanks. I only saw steam in the BRD a few times in 1968 in Konstanz and again in 1970 in Kaiserslautern. By the time I finally visited the former DDR in 1993, it was gone.