ÖBB Time Machine
The joy and fun of train buffs is to hunt down the last survivors of a locomotive class. I got lucky with one of those still operating in the Austrian Railway (ÖBB) roster this weekend. 1142.682 is the last one in it’s class operating in the blood-orange paint scheme with three ivory-white trim lines, four doors as well as big head lights. I recently saw this machine with rapid trains between Linz and Graz, especially on Intercity 600 reaching Linz Hbf at 6:48pm. So…