if you find Scandinavia interesting.....

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I am happy to inform you guys that my web site Ollies trainstuff is still growing. Now it consists off some 3000 images of raliroading from Scandinavia, all previously unpublished elsewhere. http://www.olaviahokas.com/trainstuff

I include here two images of NoHabs, which are infact european version of the classic covered wagons from EMD. The Great Northern painted unit was decked out this way for a movie job and still looking good when the lime lights are out. I see these some 45- 50 year old veterans with the typical sound of EMD 567 engines reverbing against the cliffs while having a battle against the grade with heavy trains where I live, and they come in different schemes aswell…

best regards/Ollie Ahokas

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Now I remember why the Danes, Swedes and Fins strongly advised me against visiting Norway, when I did my tour back in my twenties!!
[;)]

Seriously though – those look like the diesels (which I got used to riding behind) on the Danish railway system, back in the seventies. Good memories.

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Oletko Suomilinen?

(I took German at University so it’s probably misspelled…)

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Yes I am finni***hough I live in Sweden or in finnish: Kyllä minä olen suomalainen vaikka asun ruotsissa!

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My family name was changed from Pakarinen, so olen suomalainen as well.

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Ollie,

Thanks. Interesting pictures there. Good to see something a bit different from the run of the mill.

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That is a good observation as all these engines seen here are actually built for DSB (The national Railways of Denmark. They are all built by NoHaB in Trollhattan Sweden. Strangely enough Swedes did not go too grazy about these, as none were ordered. reason forr this was the the mainlines were electrified in the late thirties, so the SJ, swedish national system had no need for diesel mainline power so they ordered a lighter center cabs of T43-class. At least one of the units have been repainted in its original paint. as seen on the image below.


(Ex. SJ T43 222 in Mora 2005)

They were originally ordered by Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Belgium and Luxembourg. But as they were phased out from Denmark, quite a few found new homes in Sweden and Germany, where they were put in to service by privately owned regional companies.

These companies not only run on “own” track but also like a trucking company, systemwide on various unit trains. In Norway, they were selected as the most popular engines in the country, i guess it is the first time a diesel is considered more popular than a steamer. These rugged engines haveover the years become popular among rail fans in countries they have not run…

The images shown here are of Norwegian units, the hump on the roof is a winterizon hatch. Norway also ordered the last of these as late as in 1968, must have been one of the l