Comments written by the user MakoVonMako

Лежачие вагоны и к тому же относительно большой подъем.. :P Но да, по логике они не такие прочные, как например 3ТЭ10, ведь это относительно старые локомотивы.

Товары по-прежнему проходят через погранпереход Кардан - Негру-Водэ, но пассажирские поезда там, вероятно, еще долго не будут ходить. БДЖ идет дальше всего до Кардама, к сожалению, утренний поезд ходит в Дезиро, а только вечерний поезд ходит в Людмилу.

I usually do mention whatever two points, be it a stop or a station, are closest to the photo on other websites, but okay, understood. ;)

Это не станция, а лишь ветка, разделяющая линию на Циттау и Турошов.

Да, это прототип T669, сегодня это музейная машина.

For the few that still remain, from the freight station Žilina-Teplička (the transition from DC to AC will happen somewhere between this substation of Žilina, and Žilina proper) eastwards.
If I had to guess they will be, or already are, transferred from the Žilina depot to Čierna nad Tisou depot. They only have a single regular freight train left, that being the short border service from Čierna nad Tisou to Chop, Ukraine. I believe they have some sort of a Škoda subsidiary factory there which requires parts made in Mladá Boleslav, which is what the 183 tows there.
Other than that they infrequently show up on random freight trains from Čierna nad Tisou, when there isnt a class 131 locomotive available I assume. That being said there is really just a few left. Other than this one, numbers 001, 004, 011 and 043 are all thats left. Of course those are the ones owned by ZSSKC, you have potentially still dozens left, if you count the many 181/182/183 machines owned by mainly Polish, but also some Czech and Slovak companies.
Much more endangered than these are the 181/182 locos owned by the our ČD Cargo, which will either be sold or probably scrapped, because of the ETCS issue.

It was a relatively rare machine to catch, it was borrowed by a private carrier from ZSSKC. Sadly because of the new ETCS signalling system and also due to Žilina station being switched from 3 kV DC to 25 kV AC, Slovak DC machines such as the 183 class will not be able to visit CZ from the 1st of January 2025 anymore.

Why does what is seemingly a drivers school own a 710 loco..? xd How did it even get there? Never knew any of our 710's made it that far abroad to be honest.

Большое спасибо :)

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> А что за junior market? Звучит как название магазина масштабных моделей в данном контексте. Но поезд вроде настоящий;)

Sadly my russian is still very bad so I'm sorry, but I will need to respond in English..
However, Junior Market is a private company owned by the Uher family, located primarily around the town of Uhlířské Janovice. It's almost like their own town, I believe they have their own mayor there, grocery shops, butchers, farms.. like a big clan.
Among the many things their own is this railway company, which has many picturesque locomotives such as this one. 141.018 used to have a very dirty old paintjob, before it was selected by the Czech goverment to be refurbished and repaired (including the instalation of the new ETCS system, which will otherwise kill all the other members of this locomotive class to run on many of our corridors) not too long ago. They own many other interesting locomotives, couple of class 720 and 721 machines (in Russia more widely known as the ČME2), 2 of the "Grumpy" class 749 and 752 locos, two "Goggle" 752.6 and 753 locos and also a pair of class 121 electric locomotives, which used to be operated by the Unipetrol company.
Sadly, since its a private company ran by somewhat shady people, it is very hard to catch any of their locomotives in action. Their 121 locomotives, which still have their Unipetrol paintjob and modifications btw, no retro, are by far the easiest, running almost every day with some train somewhere randomly across all of CZ.
The train captured here was very random, I was in the area of Nymburk for very different reasons when somebody noticed the locomotive running solo to Nymburk, apparently for some carriages heading to Děčín. So me and my friends stationed ourselves past Nymburk, and thankfully the train really did go.. :) I think it may have been the first actual train (not counting test drives) of this locomotive after its repair.

Ballast train originating from Cluj-Napoca, heading towards Sighetu Marmației.

Ballast train originating from Cluj-Napoca, heading towards Sighetu Marmației.