410 101-0 at the rear end of the ICE-S, seen at Köln Ehrenfeld short after
the arrival from Düren on 16 June 2003. This train was originally built
for testing the technical concepts of the ICE 3, and operated with three
intermediate cars forming a "half ICE 3" (transformer car and two cars with
traction motors). Now it is operated with less intermediate cars for different
testing purposes. In this case it seemed to be a test run of the new highspeed
line Cologne-Düren
(<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/strecke/strecke.html">ABS 4</a>),
where ICE and Thalys trains shall run with 250 km/h in the future.
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>