Christmas work, driving the Offenburg - Strasbourg line and refueling trains in the empty yard

Foggy evening work

Good morning 🥱 And I’ve been asked if I could do another early morning service instead of my scheduled late service. Oh well why not ^^ Let’s get the train ready for the day.

And I’m back to work, after two weeks of vacation. Actually doing an early service today, which I rarely do, since I actually work late only. So I have seen the sun rising at work today instead of setting for a change ^^ One of these trains has no working heating though 🥶

I‘m home, my flight was arriving two hours late, so I was hoping DB would perform well, but nope… In the end I arrived three and a half hours later at home than planned x.x Broken plane that had to be replaced and then a broken signalbox. At least they gave us emergency water 💧

Goodbye Chicago 👋 I‘m on my way back to Germany, unfortunately the plane departed with a delay of almost three hours 😵‍💫

All things slowly come to an end… My last dinner here in the US ^^ Tomorrow I’ll be flying back home to Germany. MFF surely was fun and a nice experience, was my second US Furry Convention so far 👍🏻

I totally didn’t get stepped on 😇

Finally tried deep dish pizza / Chicago Style Pizza for the first time in my life ^^ I liked it, was tasty, but very filling xD

Just took a first peek into the yet empty convention center, setup is in progress. Already met and chatted with a couple of Furries though x3 Looking forward to the start of the convention on Thursday and most of my friends arriving tomorrow :)

That was my breakfast today x3

I have arrived! Greetings from snowy Rosemont, Illinois, Chicago x3

Let’s fly

I‘m on vacation for two weeks now, just traveled to the airport, now spending the night in a hotel and tomorrow morning I’ll fly, in a super fancy way x3

It’s getting more snow

I‘m seeing my first snow of this winter x3

If you have been wondering how the concept for the Christmas Market in Strasbourg for this year is going to look like, regarding the Offenburg < - > Strasbourg line, since the new Régiolis trains still cannot be used, the concept for more capacity on the weekends looks like this:

Wow, for the first time ever since I’m driving to Strasbourg I’m arriving and departing from another platform than track 25 xD Actually arrived on track 2 haha

And I’m back to drive the Offenburg - Strasbourg line after two and a half weeks. With the old diesel trains, one passenger door out of service, only 3 of 4 engines working and first ride from Offenburg to Strasbourg was so overcrowded again that I had to leave 10 people behind.

After two weeks of training for the Régiolis trains, I‘m back to driving regular services ~ Today I’m doing a Germany only service, driving the Mireo+B trains.

My return ride from Düsseldorf back home was a dream, I mean seriously, all trains were on time, everything worked, infrastructure performed amazingly, I arrived at home at the time I was promised to arrive, I couldn't believe I was actually traveling with DB. Keep it up! 😀

Today I had my theoretical exam for the new Régiolis trains, I passed x3 Another new train learned :D Now I have arrived in Düsseldorf for a nice weekend with furry friends, let’s celebrate 🎉 Just checked in ~

My training for these trains is almost done, today I was finally driving one of them for the first time ever :D And I was on time!

I’m learning the new train ~

Today it began, my training for the new trains for the international local train traffic between Germany and France, dragon is learning a new train. Today was only theory though, tomorrow I’ll actually get my claws on it.

Another day at work, tomorrow one day off :3

Waiting for my train to get out of the train wash

Phew, been catching up delay again 🥵 Unfortunately I was only able to skip 2 of the 5 on demand stops on this route, otherwise I would have gotten it down to 0 ^^ Reason for the delay was, big surprise, that was sarcastic, a dispatching fuckup by the signalman of DB in Offenburg.

Catching the last bits of sunlight before heading into my free weekend :3

It’s been almost three weeks of driving Offenburg - Strasbourg only, now I’m back to drive other routes and electric again in Germany for the next few days ^^

Holiday in Germany, no holiday in France, seems like all the people from here were going to Strasbourg today… Just had a train from Strasbourg to Offenburg where I: - Left 20 people and 5 cyclists behind in Strasbourg - 40 people and 10 cyclist in Kehl - 1 cyclist in Kork ->

Just before the end of my shift... I'm standing on platform 25 in Strasbourg, just arrived, getting the driver's cabs ready for parking in Offenburg, was the last train of my service, when two girls come up to me and say there's someone on the platform in a wheelchair who -

First train of my service from Offenburg to Strasbourg was just surprisingly full, although, it’s Friday… Completely overcrowded, left 6 passengers and 3 cyclists behind in Offenburg and 4 passengers in Appenweier. But I don’t expect any other trains that full today.

How I repair broken things on my train 👍🏻👌🏻

Ugh… My trains got quite messed up again today due to persons on the tracks which caused a route closure x.x Finally back on time now though ~

First round of my service was chaotic today, persons on the track between Kehl and Strasbourg caused my first train to Strasbourg to get cancelled at Kehl, sent people to the tram and then there was a signaling malfunction which caused my next train to be delayed 😵‍💫 But now everything works again 😌

And I‘m back on the Offenburg - Strasbourg line! It’s been two and a half weeks ^^ No, I was not sick or on vacation, I actually really had Germany only services in the past two and a half weeks.

DB is doing it’s best to delay my trains today, they are fighting hard! But I’m fighting harder, getting my trains back on time ~ Even had a argument with a signalman already, I complained about them delaying and forgetting me. When he ran out of arguments he just hung up the phone 😂 Weak.

Woke up this morning, having two days off, was like let’s drive to Hamburg for Eurofurence. Here I am for one day x3

Also, I mean, I have seen a lot of weird, disgusting, interesting, terrible, crazy and even insane things in this job already… But yesterday I had a passenger in a train, who first sniffed and then licked over a passenger information screen at a passenger door, like, wtf 😵‍💫

I‘m having a standby shift today, means just be there and wait for work. Didn’t have such a shift for months. But they found work for me, they sent me to the diesel train workshop in Ottenhöfen to take a diesel train which is done with maintenance back to Offenburg. Let’s do it 👌🏻

Hello kitty

Driving Germany only today and tomorrow, then two days off ~ And I’m actually driving the Biberach(Baden) - Oberharmersbach Riersbach line today. The last time I was driving on this line was sometime in June… Been a while.

Phew and another day on the Offenburg - Strasbourg line. First train of my service was just so extremely overcrowded again, that even I couldn’t board the train when I arrived at it! I had to ask people to leave the train so that I was able to actually get into the cab! Insane…

I‘m doing the overcrowded Offenburg - Strasbourg line again, the first train of my service from Offenburg to Strasbourg: - Left 10 people and 5 cyclists behind in Appenweier - Left 3 people behind in Legelshurst - Left 5 people behind in Kork - Left 4 cyclists behind in Kehl

Catching the last bits of daylight ~ Driving Germany only today, tomorrow back to driving the Offenburg - Strasbourg line.

Driving the Offenburg - Strasbourg line again today. It’s yet quite chill though, not too many people traveling today. Good for my tiny trains 😅

That is something I love to see when starting with my service 🤤😋

Here, have a @nezzucho.bsky.social returning to Strasbourg from Offenburg

Driving the Offenburg - Strasbourg line again today, it’s super busy and full again in our trains, my first ride I just finished: - Left 10 people behind in Offenburg - Left 25 people and 6 bicycles behind in Appenweier - Left 4 people behind in Legelshurst Let’s see how the next rides will go.