Grettings from the Croatia, my name is Domagoj.
Since I've been on this forum for about 2 years now, I think it's finally a time to introduce myself and my hobbies.
1. Railway hobby
I am one of the few 'railfreaks' who deals with the records of freight wagons, considering that it is a rare hobby, I have listed my knowledge about wagons in the already known topic about Polybulk wagons, especially STS Uafoos E574, since recently I have been keeping records of various foreign wagons, previous numberings and similar. I started dealing with wagons ten years ago and started taking photos of them a couple of years ago, from Christmas 2021 I finally switched to a DSLR camera, with which I am still learning how to take photos.
I have been keeping records of the old numberings on wagons since 2 years ago, when I first saw such a plate, considering that I am still learning about freight cars and their 'hidden' things.
Sometimes I manage to find some wagons and their history myself. and sometimes with the cooperation of other wagon hunters, considering that i can't do everything by myself.
Since I was a child, I have always been attracted to wagons from the former Cargowaggon, with its recognizable iconic logo, this was my initial love for freight wagons, and when I catch them I am always glad when I catch them, that's why I have a former Cargowaggon and GE (today Touax) among the favorites.
So far I have caught various wagons from Cargowaggon, including various H sliding door wagons from them, including Habfis H2 from Railadventure, Habis 3 (continental variant of the same wagon), Sins which was sold to Romania GFR together with Habis 3, Habfis H2, and Finnish Sis from JIT Trans, and Touax (the succescor of CW and GE) 2744 Habiins in CW and BMW Steyr variants and Hiirrs 5 and 7 from Transwaggon and Touax, which actually exist and British profile (Hfirrs) which are also my future targets. Besides regular continental Hiirrs wagons, these wagons have been leased to Slovenian Railways (SŽ) and the Austrian Railways (ÖBB). There are few variants still on my target list, on first visit in Denmark i did not had best luck, hopefully this year i'll catch few of them.
From the tanks from the former TipHook / GE, I caught Zaffns and some Arbel Fauvet Rail GE301 Zacns for Hydrochloric Acid or other compatible chemical products (of which there are probably only 20 or 30 pieces). The wagons are owned by Atir Rail now.
I personality think GE had best looking fleet of wagons, especially sliding door wagons.
The other wagon leasors along my favorites are VTG, Ermewa, Atir Rail, Millet and RailReLease.
I am the only one in Croatia who keeps records with freight wagons, considering that nobody is interested in freight wagons anymore (including on forums) and i will not give up becousei really enjoy doing wagon hobby, and helping other wagon friends.
Among the wagons, my favorites have always been wagons with sliding walls (series H) and various tanks.
I probarly have 1.000 images of various wagons mostly from Croatia, Hugnary, Austria and Denmark which is olny place i can go for cheaper on vacation.
I also like UK profile wagons, besides that they are not that famous in continental Europe due to weird size, they are still attraction for me.
I'm not personally interested in locomotives and passenger wagons except for individual ones, I like the passenger wagons the most that I caught in the composition of the freight train.
About freight trains, i like moslty mixed freights, blocks. and unusual mixed compostitions such as passenger cars.
2. Other hobbies
Apart from railways, I play gaming, mostly various shooting games, Euro Truck Simulator, PlayStation. Of the games, I liked playing Spyro the Dragon and Crash Bandicoot from the PS1 era the most, which indicates why I also like GE's wagons, considering that General Electric once owned Universal Interactive Studios, which created Crash and Spyro with Sony and other gaming studios. I also play sports, currently bowling and probably darts in the future, and I am an autistic person with disabilities and ussualy shy person. I used to be a javelin thrower in the past from few years.
I haven't competed in bowling yet.
Best regards and goodnight from the Croatia
Waggonspotter
FreightWagonCard (Domagoj)
(P. S apologies if i pick wrong subforum)