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EP4 Title :' It's not over untill the Phil Sings '
puddin:
Gman
http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/specialty/ice.htm?WT.mc_id=Google_train_ice&WT.srch=1
another good site for pictures
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/electric/emu/ICE/ICE-1/pix.html
Boingo:
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on March 17, 2006, 06:15:38 PM ---Okay! That seems certain.
Isn't this were the steep bank turn is?
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Yep, given the info both puddin and I have matched with the vidcaps, it looks like Daimler-Chrysler Unterturkheim test track is the place. So that leaves MB Sindlefingen test track(s) OUT.
I did notice that the way the shadows fall on the track, the curve shown in the vidcaps must be pointing north. Notice that the Unterturkheim loop is pointing north/northwest. I'd say it's a lock.
puddin:
At least thats settled !! I'm not giving up on the DB/ICE trains just yet Boingo , I'm just waiting for the long promo to air on Cbs for some sharper images ..there was a pip but nothing new so its not worth posting the vidcaps .
Also I thought this wording from TV guide was interesting ..
Boingo:
--- Quote from: puddin on March 18, 2006, 05:54:41 PM ---At least thats settled !! I'm not giving up on the DB/ICE trains just yet Boingo ,
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Ha ha ha, I didn't realize we still had any issues left with the ICE train. Oh yeah, the station has not been identified. :angel: Just a thought, does the ICE train have a stop near the Bavarian Film Studio in Gruenwald? :-\
I'm sure you already know this but here's everything you ever wanted to know about Rail Travel in Germany
puddin:
OK this one is known as the ICE-T
ICE with Tilting Technology (ICE T)
some info but its dated
New ICE T Munich to Berlin. (All Aboard!).(train travel)(Statistical Data Included)
International Travel News; 10/1/2002; Brunhouse, Jay
Search for more information on HighBeam Research for German Rail ICE-T schedule.
(Part one of two)
With tender tilts, ICE. No. 1610 Helene Weigel began to snake through the curves and hilly terrain of Germany's Frankenwald (forest) and it was then that I fully appreciated the advantages of the train's active tilt system and the comforts of its deluxe interior.
My train was one of GermanRail's (DB's) new third-genera ICE (InterCity Express) trains, 'which sport a sleek and stylish new exterior design and boast some of the most luxurious interiors I have seen in new trains in recent years.
The Helene Weigel is an ICE T, which tilts around curves on twisting, electrified lines. Shorter, diesel ICE TDs give the same riding comfort on nonelectrified lines. ICE 3 and ICE 3M are full-out speed burners already cutting travel times on high-speed lines.
Thirty-two 143-mph first-series ICE T trains have assumed former InterCity (IC) duties from locomotive-pulled IC trains on electrified routes throughout Germany, and you are reaping the benefits. ICE T's first series is so well received that DB . recently placed an order for 28 second-series ICE Ts costing nearly $400 million.
The fastest way from Munich to Berlin is over high-speed lines, changing trains in Hannover, but I had never traveled the alternative direct route through former East Germany, and that is why I chose. to be aboard the ICE T Helene Weigel. It was my first experience aboard this new type, of train.
Since, the introduction of ICE Ts between Munich and Berlin via Nurnberg and Leipzig, your travel time has decreased from seven hours. and 34 minutes over the 442-mile route at 58 mph average to six hours, 55 minutes (64 mph average). The same route would have taken you eight hours, 48 minutes by IC train in summer 1992, only 10 years ago.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:91916240&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19b%3ADocG%3AResult&ao=
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