(35) VSOE OrientExpress L36 Nossegem 08/10/2023 -

Thanks to a golden tip I was able to make this footage today !

[@Dylans-Depot]

Mooie opname! Hij nam een ongebruikelijke route. Van Duitsland naar België via Sittard in Nederland door werken op L24

[@TRANSPORTEXCELLENCE2011]

Nice

[@The0070049]

👏 Nice catch of this "freighttrain" ;) ... Upon my visit in Basel Bad Bf there was another engine skip - from a red SBB class 420 double (ETCS2-equipped) to a normaly only domnestic SBB Cargo 482 (not SBB Cargo International) . The guy from the organising dutch railway transport company told me, the cargo machine wouldn't run the whole way to Aachen - but to Koblenz only - to be replaced there by some other class 186 freight engine . Is it similar in Belgium , that more (historic) engines aren't that easy to operate nowadays for a often flexible routing of agency cruise trains such as this VSOE ?

[@geertcharita8501]

Currently, no historic locomotive is equipped with ECTS, necessary equipment to run on the Belgian rail network.

[@The0070049]

Thanks for the quick feedback ! The "Re8/8"-traction is common since many years for the big international passenger trains (also for the Intersoc or the Thello) . Nevertheless, a class 620 (Railadventure) realises the actual roundtrip from (Cottbus-) Basel to Domodossola of the AKE-Rheingold, thanks to the returnrouting along the classic Loetschberg line - the last north-south corridor in Switzerland without ETCS2 sections(such as the Simplon line along Lake Geneva or the approaching sections to the Gotthard base tunnel) - I guess this engine isn't fitted - similar to the quite fresh TEE or Rheingold class 420. best regards @@geertcharita8501