This is the power car of the ICE2 with an open nose. Two short ICE trains can be coupled together to one unit. In this case two power cars were taken from the second generation of high-speed-train in germany to test the ICE 3. Photo taken at Wuerzburg Hbf on march 1998.

Photo and scan by Andre Werske (http://www.wuerzburg.de/wsb/werske)