A pair of DB 'Bunnies', Nos 218 405-9 and 218 402-6, approach Sontheim east of Memmingen with the 09.10 Zurich to Munich EuroCity train. What appears to be a lake above the train is actually a fie... (more)
East German diesel-hydraulic No V180 026 departs from Hof with the 07.14 Stuttgart to Dresden inter-zonal D-Zug. Note the rolling stock for this train appears to be all of pre-war construction.
Nice crome fender - a Russian built diesel-electric Co-Co pilots East German diesel-hydraulic B-B No V180 123 with a tank wagon train for the Ost Zone seen leaving Hof.
The preserved DB V200 diesel-hydraulic B-B No V200 002 leaves Gotteszell with a special train returning to Nuremburg. Sadly this was one of the locos destroyed in a fire a couple of years ago.
A pair of DB tilting DMUs lean into a curve north-east of Ranna forming the 11.11 Bayreuth to Nuremberg service.
The Czech 2-10-0 that brought the 'Zpadni Express' over the border from Czecholoakia returns towards the 'Iron Curtain' with a train of coal empties from a nearby power station.
This Czech 2-10-0 has just passed through the 'Iron Curtain' from Czechoslovakia to Schirnding in West Germany with the 10.45 Pague to Paris 'Zpadni Express'. At Schirnding the 2-10-0 will give wa... (more)
Re-boilered DB 4-6-2 No 001 187-4 bursts from under a small farm bridge at the foot of the Schiefe Ebene as it leaves Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg with the 06.04 Wurzburg to Hof Eilzug.