egbert Posted 15 January , 2018 Share Posted 15 January , 2018 (edited) Great pictures. Sorry could not resist -this aerial picture from km 10,4 summer 1916 Edited 17 January , 2018 by egbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bierast Posted 15 January , 2018 Share Posted 15 January , 2018 (edited) On 12/28/2017 at 18:25, trajan said: So, with those two Ottoman chappies there, then a group from another Armee? Perhaps from Galicia, where there was an Ottoman Corps, the XV? The Ottoman XV Corps had been withdrawn from the Südarmee following the Russian collapse, so this probably isn't relevant given the date of these photos. Edited 15 January , 2018 by bierast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Julian, would you please post the written descriptions from before 30.5.? I think there are some wrongly spelled location names in the translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 As Julian pauses, I will post a couple of complementary pictures from Donon Waldbahn. Michelbrunn with aerial railway Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 All following pictures are from Dononbahn between stations Schirmeck-Michelbrunn-Donon Schirmeck is the starting point in the valley. Here is the narrow gauge station with Landwehr-Feldlazarett 31 in background Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Schirmeck, panning to the left. Goods depot of Dononbahn Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Schirmeck station with casino Eisenbahn-Betriebs-Kompanie 60 Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Schirmeck Waldbahn/Feldbahn station Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Turnout Waldbahn. I believe this is at km 11,8 Dononbahn Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Waldbahn station across donon mountain Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 16 January , 2018 Share Posted 16 January , 2018 Unknown station somewhere between km 0 and 32 "Pioneer Depot Thielicke" My source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 Going on with Schirmeck provisions depot next to narrow gauge Waldbahn Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 17 January , 2018 Share Posted 17 January , 2018 (edited) Dononbahn - Railway siding towards the Donon mountain front line Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe A section protected against aerial views and entrenched Source: Drehscheibe online Edited 17 January , 2018 by egbert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 18 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2018 On 1/15/2018 at 03:19, stevebecker said: ... I had a check of the known Railway officers I have on my DB but can no officers sent to Germany so far ... I did find two possible officers Assim Efendi Railway officer Palestine Lt in book by German pilot Henkel Suleyman Bey Commander of Railway Station at Taif Maj Hicaz But can find no dates if they were sent to Germany for cross training? Thanks Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 18 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2018 On 1/16/2018 at 12:23, egbert said: Julian, would you please post the written descriptions from before 30.5.? I think there are some wrongly spelled location names in the translation. Apologies for absence Egbert - work matters to deal with (students with fail grades mainly!)... You mean these? I have no doubt that I have probably made a mistake in my transcription - never mind my translation! Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 18 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 18 January , 2018 On 1/15/2018 at 11:29, egbert said: Great pictures. Sorry could not resist -this aerial picture from km 10,4 summer 1916 On 1/16/2018 at 18:54, egbert said: As Julian pauses, I will post a couple of complementary pictures from Donon Waldbahn. Michelbrunn with aerial railway Source: Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe Wow! These and the others are really superb and illuminating photographs I see that at least one of these is yours and the others in Karsruhe - a superb find! I plan to get back to the album tomorrow, but Saturday latest. Again, apologies for my absence - and do of course feel free to ask anything! Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 Egbert, your input here is already and will be even more so invaluable! My scanner won't quite take the entire pages so a mixture of photographs and scans hereon. Please let me know if more detail is needed and I'll re-scan or whatever! Last entry from the album - page 02 verso was in post 25. Fom now on I'll simply do page number, recto or verso, and page photograph sub-number sorry if that is confusing but I have never tried to discuss/report anything like this before! So, this is first of all 03 R 00 - page 03 recto general view... Now to details - 03 R a, b and c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 So, that done, here is page 3 verso. 03 V 00, a, b, and c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 Now to page 04, 04 R 00, a, b c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 So to page 04 verso - 04 V 00, a and b... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 20 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 20 January , 2018 Now, as luck would have it, I visited the same dealer today who then produced three stacks of photographs with an eerily familiar handwriting, as above, and some of them clearly album related... The clearly related ones show a view with a mountain similar to - as I recall - what there is in post 26 a above. Others in the same pile look related with scenery and locomotives. Most in that pile were stamped "Reserve Eisenbahn Komp. Nr.16"... Some of those in the other two piles (a few showing ammunition waggons and railitracks destroyed by bombing or shelling) were marked for "Bay.Eisenbahn Betriebs Komp. 4", with locations given at - to name two - VILOSNES and BRIEULLES. The dealer claimed they came from the same source as the album - which was compiled by or on behalf of the Commander of "Kodeis B", "Eisenbahntruppen i.B.d.Armee=Abteilung B" - and also, later,he showed me some epaulettes that - to me - looked as if they might be WW1 and for a major... The letter in the album is addressed to a major... So, need help please, what do Eisenbahntruppe Major epaulettes look like! Yes, it is only at times like this I curse the fact I still have an old Nokiea that makes and receives calls and messages and not much else... Julian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 21 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 21 January , 2018 15 hours ago, trajan said: ... he showed me some epaulettes that - to me - looked as if they might be WW1 and for a major... The letter in the album is addressed to a major... So, need help please, what do Eisenbahntruppe Major epaulettes look like! Well, of course the "Major" the album's letter was addressed does not have to be Eisenbahn and a quick Google this morning brought me a close match from memory of the ones I saw - these below being reproduced from http://www.kammerbulle.de/html/schulterstucke.html for reference. The ones I saw had that black thread running through them but were backed with a fawn / beige coloured fabric, not red, and they had a metal slider to fasten them to a uniform - does that sound right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 25 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 25 January , 2018 I double-checked with the dealer re: the epaulettes and received an evasive answer as to any potential relationship with the Album... So, back to that album! Here is page 05 recto - the page photographed to show layout, with scans of the the photographs themselves. I am hoping that my university has a better scanner - A3 with a higher ppixel count - and if so I'll do the full pages at least plus all maps on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 25 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 25 January , 2018 And here 05 verso - again photogarph of the page, scans of the photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 25 January , 2018 Author Share Posted 25 January , 2018 Onto 06 recto... Fun stuff here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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