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Nuremberg Railway Museum is the official DB museum. On this picture you can see a mockup of the ICE and an old high-speed DMU 'Flying Hamburger' from the thirties. Photo/copyright by Michael.Kuperberg@gmx.net

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Half a car of the SVT 877 "Fliegender Hamburger". Built 1932 by WUMAG, it reached an experimental speed of 175 km/h and had a regular speed limit of 160 km/h. Two diesel engines powered two traction motors in the middle articulated bogie. From 1933 to 1939 it was used between Berlin and Hamburg, taking 138 minutes, a speed unsurpassed until 1997. After the war used by the French army, then 1949 to 1957 in service for the DB. For lack of space (?) the end car "a" was cut in half and the front half shown in the museum, the rest scrapped. Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg. 2011-02-02. tobias b köhler

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DB’s VT601 diesel set is a masterpiece of design. Even the train’s headlights are a classic, with their finely shaped, teardrop-like casings. It’s a mystery how the European railway companies allowed such a supreme example of elegance to deteriorate into the sort of boxy machines-on-wheels that we see today. Photo made at the Nurnberg Railway Museum. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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Cab fragment of a railbus class VT95, built in Uerdingen. Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg. 2011-02-02. tobias b köhler

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Diesel-hydraulic locomotive V36 108, built 1940 by BMAG as WR 360 C 14 No. 36 282 for the German air force to pull military trains. Used in Minsk (Belarus) until 1943, then in the air fuel facility Ehmen near Fallersleben. To Deutsche Reichsbahn as V36 108 in 1944, used in various services (passenger and freight trains on branch lines, shunting) in south Germany until 1978. Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg. 2011-02-02. tobias b köhler