A pair of unidentified class 189 electric locos passes Treis-Karden (on the
Mosel line Koblenz-Trier) with a westbound hopper train on 30 July 2011.
Although the locos are equipped with automatic couplers, the train seems to
consist of coal hoppers equipped with screw-type coupling (class 189 locos
with automatic couplers are preferentially used for heavy ore trains, which have
to be operated with such couplers due to their heavy load).
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>
(<a href="mailto:christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de">christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de</a>)