Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Beroun

This must have been roughly at departure time, although I can't remember just by looking at this whether we were already moving when I took this. You can see #498.022 smoking a lot, probably to build a head of steam.

In addition to the new blue livery on much of CD's passenger equipment, something similar is being applied to freight units, although as I've said elsewhere CD Cargo units now have a different CD logo from passenger units. These Class 742 diesel road switchers were on the freight tracks in Beroun.

This was one of a number of cameraphone shots I took as #498.022 was being turned at Beroun during the return trip. In this photo, you can see the profile of the Kylchap double-blastpipe chimney a bit better than usual, although it's a bit dark.

This was taken on the October 16th, 2010 ex-CSD #498.022 excursion during a layover at Beroun, during which the locomotive was turned. Here it's already coupled tender forward ready to head to Rakovnik, where it will be turned again. I took all still photos on the 16th with my cameraphone, as the batteries in my Nikon died at Beroun (actually, they had probably been dead for weeks). I did some proper photography the next day, which I hope to eventually include in an NRHS show. The video that I shot on the 16th, however, will be yet another NRHS show.

The 1950's-era Czech electrics are gradually being phased out, with more in scrap lines everyday, but some of the later classes to be built in the same rounded style, which were built well into the 1970's, continue to survive. Again, the bad cameraphone resolution prevents me from reading the number of this one, but you can tell it's a Class 130 from the boxy blister on the top of it (I'm not sure for what, as I don't have a proper manual for these). It's true that ex-CSD Class 125's have this too, but all of them are now in service on ZSSK in Slovakia, not CD. Note also the CD Cargo logo on this Class 130, marking it at least in theory as a freight unit.