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Viewing Album:  Butler serves two customers
 
By:Peider SwissTrip
Dates:8/16/2013 - 8/16/2013
Album Info:Butler, the nickname for the new SBB Cargo, Eem 923 class, shunter made its delivery work at Flums Station, at Eastern Switzerland. During 2.5 hours it had to deliver 7 cars and take away 3 cars from two customers, a grain mill company and a rock wool pad company. The SBB Cargo Eem 923 is a dual power version of the SBB-Pax division Ee 922 electric shunting locomotive. Thirty locomotives have been ordered from Stadler Rail, Switzerland, and are beeing delivered 2013. The wheel arrangement is Bo. It can run at up to 100 km/h on 15 kV or 25 kV electrified lines. The machine has an 360 kW diesel engine with generator for operation on non-electrified sidings. Info about Eem from Wikipedia.
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Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Eem 923 009, nicknamed "butler" arrived shortly before 9:30 am at Flums station with three grain hoppers for the mill in the background, three charcoal cars and an empty boxcar, all for the rock wool pad company.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:47 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  After switching from overhead to diesel motion, the first operation is to bring the three loaded grain cars to the mill, two are already parked at the side and one goes for deloading.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:49 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  136   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  After coming back empty from the mill the two box cars, fully loaded with rock wool pads, had to be taken away from the delivery track and come to the station to reach the next track to pick up two loaded charcoal cars at the tracks at the factory end (just behind the right signal). All operation are on diesel engine only, as no overhead wire exists on those tracks.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:50 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  After picking up at the far end those loaded charcoal hoppers they had to be put on the siding track connecting to the factory (were two spare cars are parked).
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:51 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  141   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Charcoal hopper, class "Falls", from the Advanced World Transport Ltd/Czech, which brought the 20 t of charcoal from Ostrava, a coal area in Eastern Czeck.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:51 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  The empty boxcar, class "Hbbillnss", a standard car in SBB Cargo fleet with a total weight of 23.8 t. It is side loaded with one half moved out.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:53 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Views:  86   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Now, the empty boxcar is at loading station for Saturday and the three new charcoal hoppers are parked at the far end for using it next week. One spare boxcar was untouched remaining on its sidetrack.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:54 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Views:  91   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  The Eem came back to pick up the last days charcoal cars to bring them into the factory. The driver just has to wait until his help kicked the switch.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:55 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  176   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  On a short stub track, first they had to get out two unloaded charcoal cars and put them aside on the connecting track and then the two loaded hoppers were pushed into the deloading hall, asking full attenion to the driver.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:56 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  148   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Pushing out the two empty cars away from the deloading hall (just behind the shunter the deloading dock for the rock truck transports) back to the siding for departure.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:47:58 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  While the Stadler Rail Eem 923 is shunting out of the stub track, a Austrian OBB RailJet-EuroCity-train passes on its way to Zurich, pushed by a Taurus ES64U2
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:00 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  204   Comments: 4
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Finally the two empty charcoal hoppers are in place on the departure track, time for a smoke break for the crew. Due to filters (nose and smoke) of the Eem 923, the cigarette smoke was almost bigger !
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:02 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  129   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  After the break, the phone came that the first grain hopper is empty. So next operation takes place: Take empty car out, pick up the two full at the side track, switch them back to the grain mill for deloading and finally go back with the empty one to the departure track.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:03 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  158   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Run-around to bring the grain hopper at the end of the train consist.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:04 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  103   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Loading instruction for the grain car, a class "Taggnpps" car.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:07 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Views:  101   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  upps ... a SBB Intercity train is dashing through station on over 80 mph, lifting from airstream the front pantograph (a typical phenomen on the Re 4/4 loco). The 11161 is the last remaining green one in SBB inventory.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:07 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB Re4/4(UNKNOWN)
Views:  175   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  With shunting work completed, the diesel engine is shut off and the Eem 923 goes back on overhead power supply ... but a phone call twist the story for a bit longer time.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:09 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  114   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Overhead power off, diesel on again: As it is soon Friday afternoon and no train leaves from Buchs (Swiss border station) through Austria to Czech, the two empty charcoal hoppers had to be left behind at Flums. So, off they go, another shunting work down to the mill, because there is another sidetrack out of way for Monday shunting crew.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:11 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Coming all the way back to the end of the track near the station to park the two empty charcoal cars.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:12 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  107   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Keep an eye on your back, boy ! Two BLS Re 4/4 passing me on the way back empty to Basle from a oil tank car assignment to the cement industry in the Rhine mountain valley.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:13 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  BLS Re4/4(UNKNOWN)
Views:  155   Comments: 1
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  Finally the work is done, back on overhead power, the loc engineer is checking load and brakes.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:34 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  117   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  At 12 am, after 2.5 hours of shunting work, I wave a good bye to the crew as they are leaving Flums station to Buchs, where those cars are distributetd by SBB Cargo trains to destination.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:36 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  120   Comments: 0
Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Title:  Butler serves two customers - a 23 picture story of 2.5 hours of shunting work.
Description:  End of the story ... signal is green and they can switch to the main line. Hope you enjoyed the story (Everything a bit complicate and I didn't counted all shunting steps. The station you'll find on Google Map with "Flums, Switzerland" ). More info on Eem 923 you'll find at the intro of the album.
Photo Date:  8/16/2013  Upload Date: 8/17/2013 1:48:38 PM
Location:  Flums, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SBB EEM923(UNKNOWN)
Views:  142   Comments: 1

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