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Edition #231 October 1, 2014
Scandinavian Visitors in the Balkan Mountains
Photographer: Christoph Grimm
Photo by Christoph Grimm
Scandinavian Visitors in the Balkan Mountains
The F-units do have also European sisters! After WWII the US saw a large market in Europe to modernize their loco fleet and sold licenses to different manufacturers in Europe. These adapted the loco design to their needs.
The Swedish loco builder NoHAB (Nydqvist och Holm AB) built a streamliner
version called type AA16. Actually the profile was more of the Australian VR
A-class than the F-unit. It was mainly sold to Denmark and Norway but also to
the communist country Hungary, which was forced by the Soviet Union into their
hemisphere after WWII! For Belgium similar locos were built by a Belgian builder
under EMD license.
Nowadays only very few of these locos are still in use. This year they celebrate their 60s anniversary. The last country in the world using EMD streamliner in front of regular passenger trains is the small Balkan country Kosovo. Two of the NoHABs are still in use in this Balkan country. This photos shows loco 005 on its way to Peja in April this year. Kosovo got 4 of these streamliners donated in 2001 from Norway.
Berlin, Germany
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