After being all the morning recording trains at Lavern Subirats, I heard that the special locomotive of the Renfe Class 289, numbered as 289.108 was pulling the butane train from Tarragona to Montornès. As I had to go to work, I could catch it on the morning.

My suprise came when while driving my train from Manresa to Sant Vicenç de Calders saw that the train was waiting for me to pass before him at Castellbisbal while returning back to Tarragona, so when I arrived to SVC I got my camera ready and when preparing the EMU for the train back to Manresa, I saw the green tandem locomotive appearing behind the curve of the station.

Here we see the train passing Sant Vicenç de Calders station with the unluckly dirty but special locomotive at the front of the consist

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