On Wednesday, took the ICE to Düsseldorf to visit Christian and visit the ET 420s operating in Rhein Ruhr. These ET420 trains are the exact same ones that operated in Stuttgart when I lived there in the 1990s.
420-389 makes a stop at Hilden enroute to Düsseldorf Flughaufen
420-378 has climbed out of the Flughaufen station tunnel and approaching the Düsseldorf Unterrath station.
420-389 awaits for its departure at the Düsseldorf Flughaufen station. ET420 trainsets have three parts, and each part has a different number. The A driving end is 420-389, the B driving end is 420-889, and the C middle power car is 421-389.
420-389 rolls past the control tower at Sollingen.
420-386 climbs out of the tunnel towards Düsseldorf Unterrath.
420-365 pulls into Hilden Bahnhof.
420-359 at Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.
423-247 was the only PET (Plastik Elektrisch Treibzug / Plastic Electric Train) operating on the S7 line. By the end of the summer, only PET will be operating on the S7 line.
Besides the ET 420, there were other things to photograph in the Rhein Ruhr region.
An Inter City train, pushed by a BR 120, passes by Düsseldorf Oberbilk Bahnhof heading towards Düsseldorf HBF.
Another Inter City flies through Düsseldorf Oberbilk. The BR 101 is the workhorse of the Deutsche Bahn's Locomotive hauled Inter City and Euro City trains.
An empty Regional Express heads to the depot after the morning rush hour.
A digital image of an analog clock.
A Lufthansa A319 at the Düsseldorf Flughaufen.
A pair of 1960's era BR 140s lead a unit steel train through Hilden.
On the way from Stuttgart to Düsseldorf, I rode the fastest regularly scheduled train in Germany. The ICE 3 trains reach 300 km/h (186 mph) between Frankfurt Flughaufen and Köln.
I stopped at Kornwestheim on the way from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof to Ludwigsburg. The Salamander building makes a good photo backdrop.
420-446 stops at Kornwestheim. 446 is part of the last series of 420s built.
420-460 stops at Kornwestheim on its way to SchwabStraße.
