Poland Narrow Gauge

Standard gauge cars roll on narrow gauge transporters behind LxD2's in this video of the operations on the Opatowek-Zbiersk section of the former PKP narrow gauge network now operated by SKPL.

[@pdxrailtransit]

Gotta love the kid retrieving the soccer ball from the roof. Brings back memories.

[@user-ek1gv1rv1c]

So viele schöne Filme ich liebe die, es geht runter wie Olivenöl. Danke 😊

[@joesprinter8202]

Love the gauge change...excellent video..

[@TrainsInRomania]

Double traction... really awesome!!!

[@DH7409]

I've never seen anything like this before. Great stuff!

[@cuzinitr]

Very cool video! Love those locomotive's! They sound like V8 prime mover's in them. Well done! 5* Rich

[@stanleepatterson95]

great vid thanks for posting

[@MartyLJ57]

I often wondered how they switched gauges. Thanks for the education

[@RussellNelson]

Another way to do it is to switch trucks.

[@vishwajitpawar4076]

Good video. True hardwork.

[@AndrzejMastalerz]

Interesting and well done video.

[@saintjohnrailfan]

Great video!

[@elrodjones]

That's pretty damn cool!

[@paprna]

Amazing!

[@Lillstisse661]

They used transfer wagon's exactly like that on 2 narrow gauge lines near me before they were both closed and torn up.

[@ewelinanajgebauer8862]

My city had a railway like this. Torn up in 2005-2008.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Most interesting. They're interesting little locos, very much like scaled down standard guage ones. Sound good too. Loading & unloading looks a rather labour intensive and time consuming process, though.

[@tracynation239]

An amazing video. ♡ T.E.N.

[@Dutch_Pancake]

is this the same line as in the "ghost train" video where the trains bumps into a traffic sign?

[@MrQuirinus]

uau! dá uma sensação que vai virar! e eu achava a bitola métrica estreita......mas 750mm!! é muito estreita.

[@user-ij9em5uh7b]

Класс. Первый раз в жизни такое вижу.

[@b3j8]

Neat to watch, but sure seems like a whole lot of work for afew cars. Thanks!

[@Lillstisse661]

Either that or widdening the line, which basically involves building a whole new line except the embankment and right of way are the same.

[@aikonlatigid]

Seems like the railway rarely used

[@pietreanuraresandrei518]

big like. !!!!

[@VilquinProductions]

Does this railroad carry mainly sugar beets? I heard that Polish narrow-guage lines were meant to haul sugar beets for their population. Thanx fur sharin'! 5 thumbs up!

[@fmnut]

Yes, these are Romanian engines.

[@adventureguy4119]

+fmnut they a cute little guys

[@mncro1]

HI! Do O see ok? are these narrow- gauge locs FAUR-models (ROMANIA) with Maybach-motors? They have a easy-to-recognize "look"...

[@niebuszewiak]

+mncro1 The red locomotive have Henschel engine (Wola H-12), but the blue one - Maybach engine. These are German engines.

[@mariansiicu2893]

Ldh 45 Faur Romania

[@ericgriswold1268]

@fmnut - under load , the locomotives sound like two H - 12 - 44's !!

[@fmnut]

Yes they do, a bit.

[@EMDSD14R]

wow these are cool trains..are these units powered by small EMD v-8 567's?..they sound like em alot..great vid!!!

[@lhsboyproductions3446]

Poland buddy :)

great video greetz from Poland :) subscribe + big like!

[@44robnl]

I don't mind looking at this NG operation, nice video, but economically it does not make much sense in my view. They take the bulk cargo from the hoppers and dump it in road trucks. Couldn't these trucks drive the distance to where the large rail cars were originally?

[@NukeBro]

oh wow I never knew we had these kinds of diesels back in poland

[@kabzikGNIEZNO]

@fmnut Gnieźnieńska - Sompolińska - miejscowość Ślesin ( już nie istniejący szlak )

[@aspenGF8]

CN used to jack up the cars and put narrow gauge trucks in newfound land

[@Tom-Lahaye]

The red loco unquestionably sounds like a Henschel engine to me, I have driven a SG Henschel shunter/switcher once and that sounded identical, must have been the same engine. That was a good load for these little machines, 380 ton for the loaded train (4x loaded gondola 80 ton each and 8x "rollwagen" at 7.5t each) The empty train was 10 gondolas? I could't see this well because the train roling by was cut in the montage (maybe show a train roll by completely in one scene as long as it is not a mile long train?) In that case the empty train would be good for 400t. Henschel by the way was the only German company that used EMD drive trains in their larger locomotives. They have built locomotives in amounts for Egypt and Austria that uttilised 567 engines with generators from EMD, the Egypt ones even had a body shape simmilar to F-units. But there was a small class of 6 locomotives built for a mining company close to where I live (South of the Netherlands), they were the Henschel adaptation of the G12 type. They were sold to NS (Dutch state railways) and later to the meter gauge network of FEVE in Spain, all were scrapped. (Google for NS2900)

[@Civi_ts]

The locomotives were built in Romania at FAUR. They are diesel-hydraulic. About the engine, I'm not sure about the brand.

[@kae4466]

i am going to assume this line is no longer operating? and i ask that in the form of a question.

[@fmnut]

Correct. The construction was finished on the projects for which the aggregate traffic was inbound. The sporadic general freight business not enough to sustain the line by itself. I believe it shut down a year or two after this filming.

[@SKumar-fk6tj]

What's the width of narrow gauge in mmm?

[@fmnut]

S. KUMAR 750 mm

[@fmnut]

S. KUMAR 750 mm

[@christopherlovelock9104]

Lovely video. Does any of this gauge still exist anywhere in Poland.?

[@fmnut]

Yes, there are a few remnants of once extensive narrow gauge networks in use as tourist lines. The freight transfers as seen in this video finished a few years ago. A lot of track is still in place but slowly disappearing from theft and vandalism.

[@christopherlovelock9104]

@@fmnut Only 'tourist lines' now live on, - shame, but at least they are not just memories. I always have liked narrow gauge, - I don't know why but I think it is the fascination of full sized loco's and rolling stock travelling on smaller gauges than most are intended for, - (as in this case). Are the 'transporter' wagons 4-wheel or of bogie construction. Aren't these the lines that used to have a lot of "coal thieves" travel on them, or am I getting mixed up with a similar ex 'Iron Curtain' country. - Happy New Year to you.

[@fmnut]

@@christopherlovelock9104 There are several different designs of transporter bogies. The ones in Poland had six axles in two sets of three. There were two basic types. A longer version that carried a single std gauge 2 axle wagon, and a shorter version used in pairs to carry std gauge bogie wagons. Both types are in this video. And coal theft was common throughout the Eastern Bloc. Still is, for that matter.

[@christopherlovelock9104]

@@fmnut I didn't know coal theft still went on I would have thought it would have died out with the economy being what it is supposed to be, but then with all these 'jumped up' Oligarchs and Putin worth all his 'reputed' Billions. I suppose the money has to come from somewhere and it is still the majority that suffer, how someone who was a simple Sergeant in the KGB can become a leader of a Country like Russia baffles me. Communism hasn't gone it has simply changed its name under a veiled cloak of secrecy. - Getting back to trains and away from politics, I believe transporter wagons are still in use on a few narrow gauge lines still in other parts of the world or are they now a thing of the past.

[@fmnut]

@@christopherlovelock9104 Up until a few years ago there were some in use in Austria and Chechia. I know the one in Austria is finished, not sure about the other. As rail freight throughout Europe has trended away from single wagon shipments to unit bulk trains and containers, there just isn't the demand for small shipments that lend themselves to narrow gauge transfer. Also, the big railway operators are actively discouraging such traffic, which is why the log trains on the Zillertalbahn in Austria ceased.

[@k4410ph]

czy po dzień dzisiejszy ta kolej kursuje?

[@fmnut]

No.

[@willhooker9567]

Does anyone know what kind of locomotives these are? I am American but a British train fanboy so no clue here lol

[@fmnut]

These locos were built by FAUR in Romania between 1964 and 1987, powered with either Maybach or Sulzer 450 HP diesels with hydraulic transmissions. In Poland they were classed Lxd2, while other countries used different designations for class. They were used throughout the Warsaw Pact countries on narrow gauge lines.

[@willhooker9567]

@@fmnut Ah, thanks for the help!

[@dmaxsba]

All the time and energy put into this. Seems like it would have been better to just standardize the line decades ago.

[@fmnut]

Indeed. Or just replace the railway with trucks and buses. But this was just a holdover from the communist era when labor was cheap and capital was scarce. This railway is now dormant.

[@Lillstisse661]

That is the reason for most narrow gauge lines in Sweden that have closed.

[@szymongorczynski7621]

Linia na pewno już zlikwidowana?

[@fmnut]

śledzić nadal w miejscu, operacji zawieszonych

[@szymongorczynski7621]

***** Nie rozumiem? (Maybe you're an English speaker?)

[@fmnut]

No. 85 Merlin yes, I am. a Google search shows they have suspended tourist trains. there has been no freight traffic for some years.

[@pietreanuraresandrei518]

what a country?

[@fmnut]

Pietreanu Rares Andrei Poland

[@xyzzyx1395]

Opatówek -Zbiersk

[@LMB222]

Another "Europeana" at 0:41: kid fetching his lost football from the roof ;) (upper left)

[@luisalejandrocardenasrodri726]

Aș dori să cumpăr o pereche de astfel de locomotive. Cunoașteți pe cineva care le poate vinde?

[@fmnut]

I'm sorry, no. Try to contact SKPL.

[@luisalejandrocardenasrodri726]

@@fmnut Thank you

[@olegvassilev]

The Bulgarian narrow gauge (760mm) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/iX_cf2B3a7R_aMk

[@user-kz4ye6lm9v]

🌐🌐🌐

[@zbigniewfrysz8096]

Wiecie rze to Polak ogląda

[@fmnut]

miło to słyszeć

[@agenturawubekistanie]

What a cool tourism attraction. And almost all of them has been destroyed by postcommunist occupants.

[@zielonapietruszka1254]

nie sraicie się bo to są stare składy z 2 war world xd

[@peterlj613]

Taka linia to kompletny bezsens ekonomiczny. Przewozic wagony towarowe na platformach!!! Juz dawno powinni to zamknac

[@fmnut]

+Pieter Vierhovood Niemniej jednak to było interesujące wideo