Thanks for these pictures, and your comments in English, which I hadn't noticed until today.

I am sure there was MUCH NOISE when my grandma worked in the rail yard (as a teenager (?)during WWI. I think my Grandpa was on the RUSSIAN FRONT in those days. I think they were married after that. I don't think they would call them "good old times" in those times. But your pictures, surely convey the POWER of the FEELINGS that you speak of. I hope someday to visit this place, of my grandparents, before I die.

My grandma told me and my Brothers and sister, stories of working in the rail yard, and at the "ROUNDHOUSE"... when she ROTATED the TURN-TABLE when the locomotive was not fully centered on the turntable... and the locomotive "CAB" house on the turntable collided with another. And she got into "so much trouble" for that...

But, we laughed and laughed about it, when I was quite young... Late 1950s, I think.

Thanks again for bringing this strange and wonderful place, and memories of my grandma, closer to me today.

Hsllo Herr Drechsler, auch die SWA hat meine Erlaubnis zur Nutzung des Bildes. Meine Adresse für ein Exemplar bitte ich unter 91words@gmx.net zu erfragen. Beste Grüße

bella bellissima