Outside of the Septemvri workshops, the diesel locomotive 75 004-2 and the steamer 609-76 are getting prepared for their next duties.

A Polish steam locomotive is meeting a Russian car in a small rural Bulgarian railway station. The 609-76 has been built by Chrzanow in Poland in 1949. The constuction date of the Russian Moskvitc... (more)

Alfons Stettner's charter train hauled by the BDZ narrow gauge steam locomotive 609-76 has almost reached the station of Cherna Mesta. A small minority of Muslims is leaving in this part of Bulgar... (more)

Alfons Stettner's charter train hauled by the BDZ narrow gauge steam locomotive 609-76 has almost reached the station of Cherna Mesta. A small minority of Muslims is leaving in this part of Bulgar... (more)

The BDZ narrow gauge steam lococmotive 609-76 hauling our charter train is making a race with a gypsy horse cart on the long straight road coming from Septemvri.

BDZ narrow gauge locomotive #609-76 hauling an Alfons Stettner charter train has left Septemvri a few minutes ago and is steaming towards Velingrad.

BDZ narrow gauge locomotive #609-76 hauling an Alfons Stettner charter train climbs up towards Velingrad through a very scenic landscape.

A Russian Lada patiently waits at the level crossing near Drei Annen Hohne until the freight train coming from Wernigerode has cleared the way. A Bernd Seiler charter.

All of the HSB's rolling stock is serviced in the Wernigerode Westerntor workshop. This includes steam engines, diesel engines, railcars, passengers carriages, freight carriages and also special v... (more)

This freight train has just emerged from the fog near the Brocken summit as it has been stopped by two soldiers of the GDR border troops. They will now very carefully inspect the complete train a... (more)

Halt! Polizeikontrolle, Papiere bitte ...... (stop! police control, your documents please). These kind of police checks were very frequent in the former GDR especially in the regions that were clo... (more)

Double departures of two steam trains from the Eisfelder Talmuhle station were frequent in the past. The train on the right side is for Drei Annen Hohne and the Brocken. The train on the left side... (more)

Let's drag the time machine back to 1970. Two soldiers from the GDR border troops based on the Brocken mountain are returning with their vehicle to Schierke. They had to make a brief stop at this ... (more)