Notes

I went to Cologne again today, to test my new camera and find new points of view. One that I can now recommend is the park before the Fresenius Academy, which has some earth walls. You can scale them quite easily and then have a great view of the tangled mess that calls itself Cologne’s railroad lines.

For this picture, I wasn’t fast enough. Notice that it was me, the camera did just fine, I just wasn’t fast enough in getting up the hill when the train arrived. Still, I like this behind bars look, makes it all look kind of desolate.

Of course the entire thing has some railroad significance as well. These trains between Cologne and Trier (they’re not the only ones on this relation, by the way), pulled by 218s stationed in Trier and with Silberling cars, are the last regular trains hauled by diesel locomotives to enter Cologne Main Station. Anything else is either electric, multiple units, or both. I also find the car behind the locomotive interesting, it has received new doors and a completely new interior. No idea where it ever came from, but my guess is that it’s a re-built Silberling car.0000000