ID help needed - Freight in Dusseldorf

[66736WW]

I wonder if some kind folk off here can help me ID the below locomotives. I took them around Dusseldorf in March and I cant for the life of them find them in my books.

 

[Capybara]

The top one belongs to the Neusser Eisenbahn. I saw a similar one in Rheydt earlier this year.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusser_Eisenbahn
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Here we are:

http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/germany/germany_ne.html

 

[raetiamann]

Agree, the top one is Neusser Eisenbahn, recently into a JV with HGK in Cologne.

The bottom one was part of company operating in the Ruhr area, based I think in Dortmund. Used to carry the moniker EH on the cabside, but that seems to have changed now.

 

[Gordon]

Clearly the other two are Northrail and LDS

Northrail is a stock lessor:

http://www.northrail.eu/index.php?id=1&language=2

LDS seems to be a brand of Eutiiner Eisenbahnunternehmen (Eutin railway company):

http://www.ldsgmbh.de/

The loco is an ex DR (East Germany) V100 so more 'rateable' than the others which are of the modern Mak type

 

[66736WW]

Thank you guys. Seems these loco's are not in any of the private operator sections of two of my books. Hopefully they will be listed in Part 2 of the Platform 5 German Railways book when it comes out.

 

[Gordon]

Thank you guys. Seems these loco's are not in any of the private operator sections of two of my books. .

It's hardly surprising that printed documents cannot keep up with today's ever changing open access/private operators.

One of the final sightings of my trip to Switzerland last week was of a Mittelweserbahn diesel shunting in the sidings south of Basel SBB station.

After all the 'mittelweser' area is a long way from Basel in northern Germany.

As a 'grumpy old man' who grew up with standard fleets of national railways, viewing such 'out of place' oddities still makes me double take (the opposite of the Mittelweserbahn sighting was my first loco spot on arrival at Grosskorbetha, deep in the old East Germany in April - which was an SBB class 421!

 

[33056]

Privat-Bahn is a good site for finding out about private owner and museum locos.