Goodbye Metropolitan! 
Metropolitan was a luxurious, experimental train between Cologne and
Hamburg. It wasn't very succesfull, so the service was terminated 
on 11 December 2004. In this pic, one of the Metropolitan trains
leaves Cologne main station (Koeln Hauptbahnhof) empty, after having
arrived on its very last run from Hamburg. It is pushed by one of the
special Metropolitan locomotives BR 101.

Digital picture by <a href="mailto:david1981@xs4all.nl">David Eerdmans</a>