TÅGAB is a Swedish railway company with headquarters in Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn

Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 17,836 inhabitants in 2005.- Geography :Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern...

. It was started in 1994 and runs trains in both Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 and Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

.

In 1999, two locomotives (of type SJ T43

SJ T43

The SJ Class T43 is a Swedish diesel-electric locomotive operated by Statens Järnvägar and later other companies. It was built by Nykvist & Holm in 1961-63, and equipped with Electro-Motive Diesel engines. Eight of the locomotives are equipped with GM's multiple unit capability and be operated...

 and TMY) from the company were painted in the colors of the U.S. Great Northern Railway to participate in Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier

Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

's film Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark

Dancer in the Dark is a 2000 Danish musical drama film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Icelandic singer Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Cara Seymour, Peter Stormare, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, and Joel Grey...

, which was set in the United States but filmed in Sweden.

External links

• http://www.tagakeriet.se/
• http://www.nohab.hu/tagabpics.html