Sixaxle diesellocomotive Bm 6/6 # 18501, delivered on december 15th, 1954 by SLM, BBC and SAAS to the SBB as # 1501, withdrawn in july 2006 and sold to Schorno Locomotive Management, will be scrapped in the next days. The locomotive was brought from the Winterthur freight yard, where she was stabled the last months, to the Maag recycling company in Winterthur Grüze this evening. The 105 ton locomotive with two 825 kW Sulzer "6 LDA 25" prime movers has frame damage and cannot be repaired.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
