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» Realp DFB depot » Realp, Switzerland (more..) » August 25, 2023 |
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» 704 (more..) » Unknown |
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Remarks & Notes |
Preparing the rack-and-pinion steam locomotive HG 4/4 # 704 of the Furka Bergstrecke steam railroad (DFB) in the Realp depot for train 133 to Gletsch. Stoker Tobias H. cleans the pipes in the boiler of the 800 hp locomotive with a steam lance. The locomotive was built in 1923 by the SLM Winterthur for Indochina, now Vietnam, and was brought back to Switzerland in 1990 more or less as scrap. |
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