The first trip to Griesheim was again used by numerous passengers. In reasonably good weather, the open goods wagon, the only original wagon from the steam tramway fleet to have survived, was also well occupied. Even after the conversion to electric operation, it was coupled to the railcars as a market wagon for the Griesheim farmers to bring the vegetables to the Darmstadt market.
The other running days of the Fiery Elijah 2024 are on 15/22/28 and 29 September.
Picture 1: Locomotive 7 (Henschel, 1920) with its wagon train on the morning run from the wagon shed in Eberstadt, passing through the district of the same name towards the city centre.
Image 2: Being decommissioned from the wagon shed at the Frankenstein depot with the market wagon at the “Zugspitze.”
Image 3: The only tram depot with a smoke extractor: the locomotive stands on a railway siding with a forge for firing up!
