Serbian 071

[irishthump]

Couple of interesting videos of the Serbian Class 666 trundling about it's business. The loco is an EMD JT22CW, mechanically identical to the 071.

 

 

[NIR]

That's one good-looking locomotive. Seems like the whole Balkans is plagued with that crappy graffiti though.

[irishthump]

6 hours ago, NIR said:

That's one good-looking locomotive.

The full width cab body really does look the part!

Reminds me of another one of my favourite European locomotives, the mighty M62.

 

[DiveController]

Fine as long as you don't have to change ends too often. The engineer reversed her out towards the LC. She sounds like the 071 class when you listen to her.

I was just wondering A diesel electric attached to an electric loco with the pantograph raised?

Edited July 9, 2020 by DiveController

[murphaph]

On 7/9/2020 at 11:25 PM, DiveController said:

Fine as long as you don't have to change ends too often. The engineer reversed her out towards the LC. She sounds like the 071 class when you listen to her.

I was just wondering A diesel electric attached to an electric loco with the pantograph raised?

Maybe a failed traction motor but pantograph raised to provide power to the train?

[hexagon789]

21 hours ago, murphaph said:

Maybe a failed traction motor but pantograph raised to provide power to the train?

Quite possibly; the 666s cannot supply HEP/ETH apparently, presumably when they were more regularly used to haul passenger vehicles the train included a generator van