All of the HSB's rolling stock is serviced in the Wernigerode Westerntor workshop. This includes steam engines, diesel engines, railcars, passengers carriages, freight carriages and also special v... (more)

This freight train has just emerged from the fog near the Brocken summit as it has been stopped by two soldiers of the GDR border troops. They will now very carefully inspect the complete train a... (more)

Halt! Polizeikontrolle, Papiere bitte ...... (stop! police control, your documents please). These kind of police checks were very frequent in the former GDR especially in the regions that were clo... (more)

Double departures of two steam trains from the Eisfelder Talmuhle station were frequent in the past. The train on the right side is for Drei Annen Hohne and the Brocken. The train on the left side... (more)

The early morning passenger train from Gernrode on the Selketalbahn has almost reached Alexisbad. The train is hauled by the Mallet steam locomotive 99 5901 that has been built by Jung in 1897.

Let's drag the time machine back to 1970. Two soldiers from the GDR border troops based on the Brocken mountain are returning with their vehicle to Schierke. They had to make a brief stop at this ... (more)

The HSB 99 7232 masquerading as the Deutsche Reichsbahn 99 0732 (The "0" means that the engine is fuel burning as it used to be in the past during DR days) is storming up the Brocken mountain with... (more)

Back in the GDR, border soldiers regularly observed the freight trains bringing supply for the troops based at the summit of the Brocken mountain in the Harz. The former border to West Germany was... (more)

class 99 7243 heads a train to Eisfelder Talmühle on the Harzquerbahn and reaches the 500 metres above sea level sign at Drei Annen

Mallet 99 5901 coupled to 99 5902 for a double-headed "Sonderzug" excursion to the Brocken.