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Published: 2009-03-08 15:18:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 488; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 13
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I think the world does not really need more than one shot from this angle before it gets boring so naturally I've already taken four of them . Still, I think there is one thing that separates this from the others: Good weather.101 145, by the way also the last produced class 101 locomotive, is heading out with an Intercity train. Interestingly enough, it is pulling a cab car. More interestingly, the other end of the train has a second locomotive, a class 120, also with raised pantographs. I really have no idea why DB arranges their trains like this, but hey, it seems to work.
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Interessanter Kontrast zwischen Dom und moderner Technik bei allen fΓΌnf Bildern. Ich finde dieses Bild hier am besten gelungen.
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My best guess is : to extend the lifespan of two old loco. And beside, reverse switching to head back isn't very convenient for short run service. Just guessing though 
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Yes the weather is good on this one, and i think the angle is better
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So, a top and tail arrangement as opposed to push pull? Interesting, especially with there being a cab car anyway, what would the need for another locomotive with raised pantographs be in this situation? Unless one loco had perhaps developed a technical problem which meant it was unable to proceed from a certain point. Did the train actually arrive in top and tail configuration?
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I have no idea how the train arrived there, it was already there when I reached that platform. A possibility might be (but I'm just guessing here) that the cab car is defect and the 101 replaces it's function. There might be number of dead-end stations (I don't know, is there a more correct name for that in English? It'd just be "Kopfbahnhof", head station, for one where trains can't drive through, here) along the train's way so that just going around would take too long.
It could also be that either locomotive just had to be moved somewhere else and the engineer preferred both to be active for better acceleration, or that the train will get split in two heading into different directions somewhere along the line.
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Dead end station or Kopfbahnhof is basically the same word for terminus, or terminal station from American English, a station that lies at the very end of a particular railway where the only way to proceed is by reversal or running round. Top and tail works to provide additional acceleration and quicker turnaround times with no cab car. However with a cab car and locomotive, the train is lighter and just as quick to turn around, however gets half the acceleration of a top and tail train. The defective cab car seems a more realistic scenario here, although the locomotive transport scenario cannot be ruled out totally, however thinking back on it, if the locomotive was defect, what was to stop them just changing the locomotive at the back?
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Ah, Terminus, got to keep that in mind. Thank you!
I'm not saying that either locomotive was defect, more that it just had to be in some place else for some reason (maintenance, or just part of the schedule) and the responsible engineer decided he preferred top-and-tail (or the schedule required it for acceleration, although I think that's unlikely for intercity trains).
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Either way it is pretty out of the ordinary from what I've seen...
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