Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: PKP

This is a special sneak preview of my next NRHS show, and as such it's very much excerpted and low-resolution. The final show will be a roughly 70-minute video. In any case the cameraphone shots that I took on this day aren't too impressive, and I wanted something to mark the spot in my iPernity collection. This was a steam special on the JHMD, covering the usual summer steam route to Nova Bystrice (although only fragments are on this video). In the wintertime, the steam locomotives normally don't run. This locomotive is an ex-PKP (Polish Railways) Px48 (Some sources say Lxd2, I don't know which is right) Class 0-8-0, currently numbered #T48.001 (original works number 3073, original PKP #1916), built by Fabryka Lokomotyw im.F.Dzierzynskiego Chrzanow in 1953.

I've increasingly been noticing PKP (Polish Railways) electric locomotives venturing into the Czech Republic lately, although I don't know very much about them. I saw this one sitting in a siding in Pardubice, an unlikely location for a foreign locomotive to be parked since few international services originate or terminate in Pardubice.

Here's a lineup of PKP motive power, although it's too far away to identify all of it. This was my parting shot before switching back to color film.

Crazily, although I'm a pretty hardcore railfan, I didn't take too many train pictures on my first trip into Poland. This one, of PKP #ET22680, is an exception. I'm not sure of the location.

Not all Czech and Polish trains are rundown vandalised junkers. The international trains, in particular, are generally kept up, and this is a Polish example operated by ICC, a contractor for PKP, the Polish Railway (If I'm wrong on this then someone correct me).

This was the destination board on the Polonia, and so given its exoticism by my standards I snapped a shot while we were still waiting to depart.