Once again, RailTrain has completed a special assignment with the Port Museum. For the museum, the old mooring boat “Hein” not only has museum value, but is also urgently needed to carry out work on the “PEKING” on the water side.

The mooring boat “Hein” is already a few decades old (built in 1966) and urgently needed to be refurbished. For this, it was brought ashore and prepared for repair at the Blohm+Voss shipyard.

In coordination with the Port Museum, the RailTrain apprentices then spent several weeks

• dismanteling and rebuilding the fenders (spacer between the boat and the bridge/boat),
• completely renewing the wall rail (scuff plate),
• refurbishing the seating,
• sealing the holes in the fuselage, and
• applying colour and protective coating.

The RailTrain apprentices needed and utilised all the knowledge they were taught during their training. They had to cut, drill, saw, screw and weld. The result is impressive – even the NDR wanted to see the progress of the work and made a short TV feature about it.

Carsten Jordan from the Port Museum was also very pleased with the work of the apprentices and thanked RailTrain for the work they had done. After the work was completed, however, he signalled that this was probably not the last task for RailTrain…