{"id":887,"date":"2008-12-14T19:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:43:40","slug":"railfanning-in-iraq-photos-on-trainboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/railfanning-in-iraq-photos-on-trainboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Railfanning in Iraq photos on Trainboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The October 20 2008 thread &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainboard.com\/grapevine\/showthread.php?t=102333&#038;page=2\">Railfanning in Iraq<\/a>&#8221; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainboard.com\/\">Trainboard<\/a> has some photos taken by ConrailDan in Al Diwaniyah, <q>about sixty miles south of Baghdad<\/q>, in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>The photos (you might need to register to see them) include a DES3100 loco. These were built in Czechoslovakia by CKD Praha as a tropicalised variant of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hobbyseiten.de\/T669\/t669co.html\">T669<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There are also pictures of yellow machines, and a T-55 tank on a flat wagon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From what I remember the Iraqis had pretty good track with concrete ties. I even got to see one train travel over the rails. It was one engine and about twenty covered hoppers<br \/>\n<cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainboard.com\/grapevine\/showthread.php?t=102333&#038;page=2\">Railfanning in Iraq<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainboard.com\/\">Trainboard<\/a> <\/cite><cite><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October 20 2008 thread &#8220;Railfanning in Iraq&#8221; on Trainboard has some photos taken by ConrailDan in Al Diwaniyah, about sixty miles south of Baghdad, in 2003. The photos (you might need to register to see them) include a DES3100 loco. These were built in Czechoslovakia by CKD Praha as a tropicalised variant of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,29,38,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}