Pure Bundesbahn
Last weekend Colin Hakeman was in town from the US on a big whirlwind Europe trip so I spent Sunday showing him around my backyard. He picked a good day as the TEE from the DB Museum Koblenz was making four trips. However, he brought the PNW weather with him (Not really, the weather has sucked here in general this spring) and photo conditions in the Rhine Valley were abysmal all day. However, the forecast predicted some clearing near Mainz in the evening so I had planned to shoot the last trip on the Kaiserbrücke in Mainz. Well, I miscalculated how long it would take to get to Mainz versus how long the train should take. By the trains timetable it would have been too tight so rather than risk seeing the thing blast past while sitting in the RB, I decided we should bail at Gau-Algesheim to try for some sort of shot. Im not sure if the sun was out in Mainz but it sure was as the TEE empty stock move came screaming by us at what looked like full 150 km/h track speed. Even the last cars had pulled away from the allotment garden parking lot leaving us with a absolutely pure Bundesbahn era scene. The gap of the clouds lasted until sundown and we were treated to a procession of freights after the TEE as well. So thanks Colin for giving me some motiviation to get trackside on this day!
Pure Bundesbahn
Last weekend Colin Hakeman was in town from the US on a big whirlwind Europe trip so I spent Sunday showing him around my backyard. He picked a good day as the TEE from the DB Museum Koblenz was making four trips. However, he brought the PNW weather with him (Not really, the weather has sucked here in general this spring) and photo conditions in the Rhine Valley were abysmal all day. However, the forecast predicted some clearing near Mainz in the evening so I had planned to shoot the last trip on the Kaiserbrücke in Mainz. Well, I miscalculated how long it would take to get to Mainz versus how long the train should take. By the trains timetable it would have been too tight so rather than risk seeing the thing blast past while sitting in the RB, I decided we should bail at Gau-Algesheim to try for some sort of shot. Im not sure if the sun was out in Mainz but it sure was as the TEE empty stock move came screaming by us at what looked like full 150 km/h track speed. Even the last cars had pulled away from the allotment garden parking lot leaving us with a absolutely pure Bundesbahn era scene. The gap of the clouds lasted until sundown and we were treated to a procession of freights after the TEE as well. So thanks Colin for giving me some motiviation to get trackside on this day!