Alex class 223 diesel No 223 072 carries advertising for the West Allgau Trachten Fest, a festival of traditional costumes and dancing, as it nears Oberstaufen with the 09.58 Lindau to Munich tra... (more)

Alex 223 013 approaches Wolfsried with the 07.20 Munich to Lindau train. The loco is in a special livery to advertise the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund (bodo).

Historic train photo for railway enthusiasts

Historic train photo for railway enthusiasts

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.