My dads photos.....

[JanOlov]

Class D 101-245 were delivered, like the predecessors on malmbanan, with the bodies made in wood. The inside were made of pine and the outside teak. One locomotive in the 171-245 series, number 185 was pulled out and were built with a steel body. D's with the stell body weigh in at 80.4 and those with wooden bodies 79.5 ton. Of 321 D's delivered to SJ 134 had wooden and 187 had steel bodies.

Question: were there any locomotives delivered to US railroads with wood bodies?

[JanOlov]

The F locomotives were the largest steamlocomotives on Swedish State Railways, they weighed in at 143 ton.  These were built by SJ for the heavy passenger trains between Stockholm-Malmö and later also between Göteborg and Malmö. When these lines were electrified they were all sold to the Danish railways. Later F-1200 was bought back by SJ. Since 1963 it has been kept in running condition.

Traffic with cars going directly to Germany after the opening of the ferry line between Trelleborg-Sassnitz meant that the so called continental ytrains became heavier and heavier. The class A and B couldn't the demand of handling 360 ton in car weight and 60km/h in long grades. For this they constructed the class F locomotives which became the largest and heaviest in country. These are 4 cylinder compounds with the high pressure on the inside and the low pressure cylinders on the outside of the frame.

11 were built between 1914-16 and was in traffic until 1937 when they were sold to Denmark, where they built more of these. In Denmark where they were called class E they served until the 1960's. F-1200 which was delivered in 1914 by Nyqvist & Holm (NOHAB) as the first in line were shown at the Baltic Exhibition in malmö. In 1918 it was in the Getå accident, the most sever train accident in Sweden, but was later repaired. 

[JanOlov]

Thanks! I'll see what I can do to convince him to post more pics....

[fifedog]

Jan - Enjoyed the pics.  Thanks for sharing.

[JanOlov]

Bromsten Station.

Ub-locomotive on its way home after having left SLJ garbagetrain, also known as Silverpilen or Silverarrow, in Spånga.

The first freight train in the morning passes Avaviken in July 1978. It was always pulled by two locomotives this time two T-43 diesels.

T-43 in paintjob passes over the roadcrossing in Avaviken in July 1978. Ps, do you see the four 2-8-0's & 0-8-0's steamlocomotives just ahead of the train?

The test train from Tiillberga during stop in Kungsängen.

A 0-8-0 Class N is switching in Spånga during the reconstruction of the yard.

Hg-locomotive with gravel train in Kungsängen.

Another Hg-locomotive in Kungsängen.

Yet another Hg in Kallhäll. Lovely weather, eh?

F-locomotive passes Kungsängen eastbound on its way to Stockholm from Västerås.

Class B 1379 in Bollnäs.