Notes

I like motion blur and trying out to play with it, but this one was actually not intended at all, although it was too dark for anything but that or something else not sharp.

Either way, this is sunset at Aachen West station, which is a single platform for passengers and seemingly endless tracks for freight trains, and the end point for the Montzenroute. For some reason, there is always a larger number of locomotives (including very new ones) parked in the background here.

The train itself is a class 426, heading to Duisburg via Mönchengladbach. Telling the 426 apart from the 425 is, depending on your angle, somewhere between difficult and impossible. They are both basically identical, only that the 426 consists of two parts, while the 425 consists of four. Normally, the RB33 line here is run by a single 425, but occasionally, like here, it is replaced by two 426s instead.