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 #1420783  by Tadman
 
No joke - I saw a dilapidated ex-Ontario Northland, exx-Dutch Railways coach parked in a yard outside of Amsterdam. It was painted in very faded Ontario Northland colors, with the end doors boarded or plated over. Anybody know about these cars going back to Netherlands?
 #1420789  by NorthWest
 
These sets were originally built as the SBB RAm (2 sets) and the NS DE4 (3 sets). One trainset was wrecked and retired, and the other 4 sent over.
The Werkspoor locomotives did exactly that in cold weather/less exacting maintenance and were scrapped.
ON retired them in 1992, and in 1998 five cars, including a drivers cab, were returned to the Netherlands. They sat in Hamburg for a while as their wheels needed reprofiling to European standards. For whatever reason, it took them until 2008 to repaint the cab car.
They plan to construct a new locomotive to the original design as funds permit.
 #1420874  by ExCon90
 
Don't those cars date back to early Trans-Europ-Express days? What use does a European railroad have for a one-of-a-kind set (they have fleets where we have 3 trains a week), or are they intended for a museum?