A trip to Drosendorf and Retz, 1990

German version of this posting

The following pictures are more on the mediocre side, but they show different types of Austrian semaphores in 1990, on a trip from Vienna to Drosendorf in the Weinviertel:

Starting signal R2-3, Guntersdorf, 14.8.1990

Home signals A and B, Zellerndorf, 14.8.1990

Signal box 1, Zellerndorf, 14.8.1990

Signal box 1, starting signals, Zellerndorf, 14.8.1990

Starting signal R4, Zellerndorf, 14.8.1990

Signal box 1, Retz, 14.8.1990

Distant signal b, Langau, 14.8.1990

From the train, I took pictures of the interlocking frame at Langau, a German Einheit. Why the German Reichsbahn, in those dark years, actually invested money into new frames on such remote lines, I do not really understand:

Station building, Langau, 14.8.1990

Interlocking frame, Langau, 14.8.1990

Interlocking frame, Langau, 14.8.1990

A long mail car, a baggage car and two coaches are hauled by the class 2143 to Drosendorf:

2143.059 near Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

At Drosendorf, the mail car was switched to the loading home track. from where it would be collected by some train in the late afternoon:

2143.059, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

2143.059, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

The locomotive was coupled to the other side (the points in the foreground point towards the mail car's loading track):

2143.059, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

2143.059, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

Here is the mail car:

Station building, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

This picture of the whole ensemble is, unfortunately, mightily dark:

Station building, Drosendorf, 14.8.1990

Here is Langau again, somewhat more friendly:

Station, Langau, 14.8.1990

Here are two dutiful photos of the reflective semaphores of Retz:

Distant signal y, Retz, 14.8.1990

Home signal Y, Retz, 14.8.1990

And I took a photo of a CSD and an ÖBB railcar each:

CSD 830 045, Retz, 14.8.1990

5045.004, Retz, 14.8.1990

The next posting will then show the interior of Retz's signal box 1, with one of the last fully equipped mechanical frames