Drezyniarz 2022, Poland
In June 2022 we had the great opportunity to make a train trip from Poznan to Czarnków with a steam train. And no, we're not going to talk about how beautiful that train was (
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Trains during the cold war.
During the (1st) Cold War, Berlin was divided into 4 parts. British, American, French and Russian. Between the Russian zone and the other zones was the border (the Berlin wall), but also around the...
Technology Museum Sinsheim and Speyer
Well… they are officially called a museum, but to be honest… you should see it more as a huge collection of everything that has anything to do with technology (and sometimes not)….
Dampflok-Museum Hermeskeil
The Dampflok Museum is located in Hermeskeil. But this is a special museum and something you would not expect with that name…
Track 17 Berlin Grunewald
From October 18, 1941 until February 1945, this freight station was one of the most important deportations locations of the Jews from Berlin. A total of 35 trains carrying 17,000 Jews left from platform 17 (German: Gleis 17) directly to Auschwitz. By the end of the war, more than 50,000 Jews had been deported through this station.
Wuppertaler Schwebebahn
And then you are a day out with friends and then you suddenly find yourself at the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn. This is a suspended monorail that is not primarily intended for tourists, but as normal public transport ...
Railway gun Krupp K5
In the north of France, in the town of Audinghen, there is a museum that manages the bunker “Todt”. The bunker itself is already a solid appearance ... but the cannon that stands next to it ... that was what mattered to us ... A Krupp K5 cannon, made between 1937 and 1940. It fired a 255 kilo grenade over a distance of almost 70 km. The gun weighs 120 tons and is 32 meters long.
Nikola Tesla Technical Museum Zagreb Croatia
Well… who doesn't know Nikola Tesla… uhhhh yes… unfortunately to many people unfortunately don't know him. And that's a missed opportunity ...
Emsland Moor / Peat Museum
In the middle of what was once Europe's largest high peat area, the Bourtanger Moor / Bourtanger Marsh, the Emsland Moor (peat) Museum is located in the immediate vicinity of the Dutch border. This peat area is huge ....
Railroad guns and armored trains.
A special piece of railway history are the Railwayguns and armored trains. There is often not much left of it, but sometimes you can still find pieces of it all across Europe.
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