Germany - miscellaneous

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A class Bi coach of DB. These coaches were built 1928-29 and carried the nickname "Donnerbüchse" which can be translated as "thundering tin" because they were so loud in their noises. This one is now acting as a museum shop for a railway museum.
Picture from Zollhaus Blumberg 10.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A battery operated rail tractor is performing switching work at the Talgo coach maintenance works. It has been built by Niteq and Talgo has given it the name Hummel (bumblebee) because of its very silent humming sound.
Picture from Talgo works at Berlin Warschauerstrasse 19.6.2023 by Markku Salo.

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This industrial locomotive Deutz type A8M 517R was built in 1957 and delivered to the mining works of Luitpoldhütte in Amberg. In 1969 the new owner was SVB - Salzgitter Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH, later VPS - Verkehrsbetriebe Peine-Salzgitter GmbH who used it in construction works of tram lines. In 1999 the new owner was the association Dampflokgemeinschaft 41 096 e.V. in Liebenburg-Klein Mahner. It has been standing as a monument in the park of the Salzgitter Schloss Salder apparently since 2003 (?).
Picture from Salzgitter castle of Salder 14.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Electric mining locomotive from the year 1937 which was used in four different mines of the Salzgitter Erzbergbau until 1968.
Picture from Salzgitter castle of Salder 14.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Passenger and ore wagons of the Salzgitter Erzbergbau used with the locomotive shown above.
Picture from Salzgitter castle of Salder 14.7.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Switches and traffic monitoring are still operated from this old tower at Rheinfelden/Baden station.
Photo 4th of June 1999 in Rheinfelden by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Passengers queueing to board the ferry from Warnemünde to Gedser on 27 July 1995. Two months later it closed due to lack of passengers.
Photo by Erik Hjelme. Uploaded Nov 23, 1995.

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M/S Warnemünde on 27 July 1995.
Photo by Erik Hjelme.

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Warnemünde station, view from the ferry. 27 July 1995.
Photo by Erik Hjelme.

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Warnemünde station, end of the line. 27 July 1995.
Photo by Erik Hjelme.

Automatic airport trains

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Bombardier (now a part of Alstom) created a system for totally automatically moving a large number of people between various places not too far from each other. The system is called Peoplemover. When Bombardier sold its train business to the French company Alstom, also this Peoplemover system was part of the sale. Peoplemover automatic trains are used now at 30 different airports around the globe. Basically they consist of a totally automated system of two-coach trains with no driver running on elevated tracks. In Europe the biggest installatations are in Frankfurt and München, but globally, for instance Dallas-Fort Worth airport has a large installation. In for example Dallas, they have 32 totally automatic trains taken in use in 2005.

This picture is from Frankfurt am Main airport and shows one of the many Peoplemover automatic trains between two terminals.
Picture from Frankfurt FRA by Ilkka Siissalo 3.6.2022.

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Another picture of an automatic Bombardier Peoplemover train at Frankfurt airport.
Picture by Ilkka Siissalo 3.6.2022.

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This picture is from under the surface of the München airport where a Bombardier Peoplemover totally automatic train links the "island terminal T2" with T1 in a just 2 minutes ride. As can be seen, these trains do not use conventional tracks at all but run with rubber tyres, but collect their electricity from a rail in the middle.
Picture from München Franz Josef Strauss airport 2.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
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