Notes

Sorry for the title, there are times when I just feel a little silly.

I told you alread about this: Many german post-war locomotives exist basically twice, once in an eastern and once in a western version. They are independent constructions, but since they were meant to replace the same steam engines and solve the same problems, they are conceptually very similar.

This is the DR V100, the eastern german equivalent to the Bundesbahn V100, and among the last diesel locomotives built in the GDR before the dear socialist leaders dictated that all diesel locomotive building had to happen in either the Soviet Union or Romania. It’s in the colors of the Mittelweserbahn, a private rail company that recently celebrated it’s 10th anniversary (picture by Kotbaum, there are more pictures of the celebrations there), navigating the horrible maze that is the west of Cologne’s railroad connections. Many V100s have been re-built by Alstom’s factory in Stendal, and my guess is that this is one of them. Why it’s nose is white instead of blue, as it should be and as the rest of the locomotive is, I guess we’ll never know.