In October we booked tickets for a ride with this historic steam train. Sadly that didn’t work out as expected. Something broke for the signal manager and the train was not permitted to enter the station and could later not leave it. We basically sat for hours in some waggon until it was announced that they won’t make the roundtrip this day. One way only. That’d have left us stranded so we left the train finally. We did get a full refund of the tickets though so we will try this another time.

The locomotive, designated Lok 50 2273, is apparently in service since 1942 with various reconstructions along the… uh… rails? It’s history can be reviewed at https://eisenbahn-museumsfahrzeuge.de/index.php/deutschland/staatsbahnfahrzeuge/dampflokomotiven/baureihe-50/50-2273

Historic steam train “Feuriger Elias”: https://www.ges-ev.de/museumsverkehr/kw/kw.htm

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