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Notes I bring from my trip to Paris and Barcelona, hunting down the total solar eclipse (I was successful - and believe me, it cannot be described by photographs or words, it has to be seen in person). Also got few from Germany I bought when waiting between trains. While in Paris there is a lot of them (and cheap), Spain was a great disappointment. The only one I got there was the one from the football stadium in Barcelona (Camp Nou). In the city centre - nothing. Madrid - also nothing (I asked in maybe a dozen stores in the city centre).

At the Eiffel Tower, the vending machine gave me actually a note with the "10 years anniversary" yellow print, but I decided to exchange it in the store for a regular one. I know those prints in theory may make the note more valuable/rare but I just doesn't like it's aesthetic - it looks like something that just doesn't belong on the note and it IMO is breaking the clean design of the notes (on the other hand - golden holograms are perfectly fine and I like them). For same reason't I wouldn't buy any colored note like the football ones.

(I hope English posts aren't banned here)

Top left - How the ZSSK trains change

Featuring an old DMU class 810 and the new EMU Stadler Kiss (ZSSK is the Slovakia national passenger railway operator).

Top right - How the ZSSK trains change

Featuring an old EMU class 460 and the new EMU class 661.

Bottom left - Locomotive class 350

Featuring a locomotive class 350 - this banknote was issued for the 50th anniversary of those locomotives rollout. When this banknote was issued they still has been in regular use, however it was their last year. Some still got preserved as heritage units.

Bottom left - Locomotive Albatros One

Featuring express locomotive class 498.1 nickname Albatros One. This locomotive is the fastest steam locomotive ever built in Czechoslovakia, achieving speed 162 km/h during testing (it's maximum operational speed was however 120 km/h).

Today was the last day of regular operation of railcars class 854 in Prague (there are still few of them in South Moravia region in operation, they are expected last until the end of the year). They were in service for decades, originally built for the Vindobona express train, now ending their days on commuter services. However they are not going to be gone completely - some of them were already bought by small local operators and thus they might be seen in the future on some occasions.