Taken moments later, a second miserable shot of this freight working from the Italian border town of Tarvisio to the huge yard complex at Villach in Austria.

I had come out here to Arnoldstein after advice from the shed foreman in Villach that the loco was on these cross border services. The light had been better when I arrived, and the ideal shot here with the bridge was going the other way towards Tarvisio, sadly the loco first appeared light engine and came back against the sun in abysmal cloudy Alpine haze!

Being a loco at Innsbruck in 1945, the dismantling of the Anschluss left her as part of the ÖBB fleet, renumbered to 1020.18. She was duly refurbished many years later to the ÖBB standard of two cabfront windows with rubber seals, and eventually the striking red livery.

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I was reminded earlier today looking at the website of a Dutch enthusiast, that this is the 80th Birthday of E94 001, thankfully still in existence and operational in preservation.

Built by AEG in the Spring of 1940, her first test run took place on the 24th May 1940 from Munich to Brenner, and she entered service at Innsbruck shed the day after.

Back in 1986, with the loco by now at Villach in Southern Austria, I went there at the end of a week's Railrover to try to get a few photos. One of those days that really didn't work out at all well weatherwise, as you can see, but nonetheless a shot of this historic loco in service near Arnoldstein.

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