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#3908202 - 02/06/14 09:35 PM Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF  
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Just had a successful intercept mission with only 3 Albatros D.II northeast
of Luneville, Lorraine. (My wingman and I each shot down 1 Nieuport 23 - well,
these were flown by absolute neophytes; poor basterds...)

However - I lost contact to my men and went back to our field (Bühl-Lorraine) quite low.
I followed the railway (the new map with the roads and rails was really helpful), and suddenly
I saw smoke on the track: my first WOFF-train appeared.
I had to make a picture...



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#3908224 - 02/06/14 10:27 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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Great picture Olham...I Bet Ernst Udet would have raced it under the nearest Railway bridge.. biggrin


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#3908228 - 02/06/14 10:33 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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GREAT Olham!

I haven't yet seen a steam train up close to notice the smoke but now I have to go find one fore sure!! Of couse I will be chking my 6 rather frequently!!

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#3908233 - 02/06/14 10:43 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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Originally Posted By: Olham

I followed the railway (the new map with the roads and rails was really helpful), and suddenly
I saw smoke on the track: my first WOFF-train appeared.


Thx Olham, made my day smile

#3908277 - 02/07/14 12:31 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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#3908289 - 02/07/14 12:52 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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Fly anywhere in Flanders and you are bound to see plenty of them, and hear them chugging away if you listen close enough. Thats where I fly most often and I routinely see them off in the distance just doing their thing.

Not sure where on the map it was precisely but I noticed a train once where the tracks went right across no-mans land and I watched a freight train chug along from the German sector, across the trench lines into the British sector. Now I bet that would be an interesting trip! I wonder if they changed from a German train crew to an English one as they crossed the border? wink

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#3908293 - 02/07/14 01:13 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Madmatt]  
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Originally Posted By: Madmatt
Fly anywhere in Flanders and you are bound to see plenty of them, and hear them chugging away if you listen close enough. Thats where I fly most often and I routinely see them off in the distance just doing their thing.

Not sure where on the map it was precisely but I noticed a train once where the tracks went right across no-mans land and I watched a freight train chug along from the German sector, across the trench lines into the British sector. Now I bet that would be an interesting trip! I wonder if they changed from a German train crew to an English one as they crossed the border? wink

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#3908336 - 02/07/14 03:02 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Madmatt]  
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Originally Posted By: Madmatt

Not sure where on the map it was precisely but I noticed a train once where the tracks went right across no-mans land and I watched a freight train chug along from the German sector, across the trench lines into the British sector. Now I bet that would be an interesting trip! I wonder if they changed from a German train crew to an English one as they crossed the border? wink

Madmatt


You mean these guys?

I saw the grey smoke and from the angle I was at, it looked like an observation balloon, and I remember thinking "In the middle of No Man's Land is a weird place to stick an observation balloon" so I flew over to see these guys dutifully chugging back to Germany and I said to myself "Man, that is one dedicated crew!"

Before anyone asks, no, I don't remember where it was! Good hunting!

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#3908413 - 02/07/14 09:54 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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Did you have to give this "free front trading" away? Now the officials will surely ban it.
I had organised this little trade with Widowmaker, Dezh, Corsaire and RAF_Louvert -
German Schnaps, beer and wine from the Rhine for Egyptian cigarettes, Chablis, whiskey and Guinness.
Would be such a shame, if they stopped it...


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#3908414 - 02/07/14 10:08 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Madmatt]  
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Originally Posted By: Madmatt
Fly anywhere in Flanders and you are bound to see plenty of them, and hear them chugging away if you listen close enough. Thats where I fly most often and I routinely see them off in the distance just doing their thing.

Not sure where on the map it was precisely but I noticed a train once where the tracks went right across no-mans land and I watched a freight train chug along from the German sector, across the trench lines into the British sector. Now I bet that would be an interesting trip! I wonder if they changed from a German train crew to an English one as they crossed the border? wink

Madmatt


You mean from a French crew to a German one ? ;-)

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#3908520 - 02/07/14 03:01 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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I spotted my first the other day..then looked to my left and saw another one.

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#3909395 - 02/09/14 11:44 AM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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#3909405 - 02/09/14 12:41 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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I regularly see trains crossing the No Man's Land in Flanders. They do it even in the middle of big battles, like the battle of Loos in September and October 1915. Brave men! biggrin


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#3909437 - 02/09/14 02:07 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Hasse]  
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Originally Posted By: Hasse
I regularly see trains crossing the No Man's Land in Flanders.
They do it even in the middle of big battles

Well, that were the good old railways - tight shedules, dutyfull officials,
and no excuses like "bad weather" or "there's a war going on"...
Those were the days...
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#3909518 - 02/09/14 06:23 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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#3909538 - 02/09/14 07:20 PM Re: Trainspotting - first steam train for me in WOFF [Re: Olham]  
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But we know no OvSatchel here...
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