Historic Cologne tramcar 407 runs up and down on a section of the terminal loop
at the Thielenbruch museum on 10 September 2006. At each reversal the bow
collector has to be turned to the new rear end, by pulling at the rope that is
also used to lower it. Recent tramcars use pantographs which can operate in both
directions. Although there is a terminal loop at Thielenbruch, running
completely without reversals would have required a long tour through the city,
including underground lines, for which this car is propably not approved (at
least in passenger service).
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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>)