Warm late afternoon light bathes 99 7243-1 as it snakes its way through a series of S-curves leading to Schierke, the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen's last stop before the summit of the Brocken.
A set of two AVG dual-system tram-trains is heading south from Karlsruhe to the Black Forest mountains, splitting the manually operated semaphores just south of Forchheim.