Back before the advent of open access on EU rails, if two railways shared a service across their networks, the railway contributing less "paid" the other by letting its locomotives be used by the other railway on some 'domestic' services. Here a locomotive of Austro-Hungarian semi-private railway GySEV/ROeEE hauls an express train of Austrian Federal Railways (?BB) from Villach to the one-time Vienna South Station, entirely on ?BB tracks, including the Semmering Line, where I captured it from the top of the Polleroswand.
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just heritage schemes, not just commemorative schemes - this album is devoted to some of the world's most interesting paint schemes, past or present.
