169 005 has just arrived to Landshut Hbf with a special service commemorating the day of railroads.

ICE No. 8015 near Veenendaal-De Klomp.

A class 622 Alstom DMU sits at Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof, waiting for its next departure.

A class 642 Siemens Desiro pauses to let passengers detrain at Neuendettelsau. This small town of about 8,000 people was one of the main destinations for my father and I on our journey through Ger... (more)

A class 612 Regio tilting DMU arrives at Erfurt Hauptbahnhof.

With its front coupling exposed, an ICE 3 train rushes into Lutherstadt Wittenberg, bound for Berlin.

A pair of Bombardier class 1442 EMU's meet at Lutherstadt Wittenberg Hauptbahnhof, with one arriving on the right and another preparing to depart toward Halle on the left.

After some afternoon rain showers have subsided at Dresden Hauptbahnhof, a tram stops on the lower level as an ICE train crosses above.

A string of 446 class double deck Bombardier cars on an RE60 service to Mannheim departs Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and approaches the Main River bridge.

An RB51 service to Wachtersbach with push/pull equipment is just out of Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and is nearing the bridge over the Main River.

Just underway from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, a departing ICE 3 train crosses the Main River on the Main-Neckar bridge. It was originally finished in 1927, destroyed at the end of WWII by the ... (more)

An ICE T arrives at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof while some other DB locomotives sit nearby.

An ICE 4 train arrives at Erfurt Hauptbahnhof. The driver would open the door and I'd take the opportunity to chat a little bit, as well as see the inside of the cab. He was a young man, maybe in ... (more)

Among other passengers waiting on the platform, a young person records the arrival of an ICE 1 train at Erfurt Hauptbahnhof.

Arrivals and departures are nearly constant at Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof. Serving nearly 180 million passengers annually, it is the second busiest train station in Germany and third busiest in... (more)