January 01 2016

Up the Brocken in the hope of decent light, then to Quedlingburg by steam.

1 The old station at Stöberhai.	2 Looking down Kirchstrasse.	3 Kirchstrasse on a frosty morning.
4 The scene from the station at Hochschule Harz.	5 99 7234 rolls in Hochschule Harz with the 08:55 from Wernigerode to Brocken.	6 Frosty at Drei Annen.
7 Hoar frost.	8 Taking water at Drei Annen.	9 After a promising start the fog came down on the Brocken. The 09:40 from Wernigerode blasts uphill behind 99 7243.
10 99 7243 with the 09:40 from Wernigerode.	11 At Goetheweg passing siding a downhill train sits waiting its slot as 99 7239 heads up through the fog with the 10:25 from Wernigerode.	12 On Goethemoor the fog was thickening as the annual New Year’s Day Tradzug heads uphill behind Mallet 99 5901.
13 99 5901, a 4 cylinder compound 0-4-4-0t.	14 An alternative form of horse power to the Brocken.	15 More fog and steam on the Brocken.
16 99 7234 leads the 10:24 from Nordhausen towards the level crossing below the summit of the Brocken.	17 Mallet 99 5901 rests at Brocken in the fog.	18 99 5901 of 1897, built for the Wernigerode – Nordhausen Eisenbahn.
19 99 236 at Brocken.	20 99 236 takes water Drei Annen Hohne between runs up the Brocken.	21 99 236 heads its train of 7 vehicles away from Drei Annen Hohne, the 15:06 to Brocken.
22 2-6-2t 66 6001 takes water at Alexisbad.	23 Railcar 187 015 at Alexisbad with the 18:26 to Harzgerode.	24 99 6001 at Alexisbad with the 17:02.
25 99 6001’s smokebox.