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Dear German speakers,
I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there operating
as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding skills aren’t
so good and are even worse when I don’t know the correct words in a language. I
tracked down one tiny pic of this train
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I am hoping someone can help me with a few requests:
1) What is the way you say EMU in German (and/or commuter train)?
2) What German websites are good for finding train pictures?
3) What make of train is this?
Any other help would of course be appreciated.
Thank you for your time on this. I can’t post on 1000Steine so if anyone would
be willing to point to this post from there I would be very grateful.
Thank you in advance.
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Dear German speakers,
I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there
operating as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding
skills aren’t so good and are even worse when I don’t know the correct words
in a language. I tracked down one tiny pic of this train
()
I am hoping someone can help me with a few requests:
1) What is the way you say EMU in German (and/or commuter train)?
2) What German websites are good for finding train pictures?
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Have you not been able to find what you are searching on the
Railfaneurope website
(eventhough not german website) ?
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3) What make of train is this?
Any other help would of course be appreciated.
Thank you for your time on this. I can’t post on 1000Steine so if anyone
would be willing to point to this post from there I would be very grateful.
Thank you in advance.
Tim
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Didier
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Dear German speakers,
I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there
operating as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding
skills aren’t so good and are even worse when I don’t know the correct words
in a language. I tracked down one tiny pic of this train
()
I am hoping someone can help me with a few requests:
1) What is the way you say EMU in German (and/or commuter train)?
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Commuter trains tend to be referred to as S-Bahn
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2) What German websites are good for finding train pictures?
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As Didier has mentioned, the European Railway
Server is probably the best place to look, especially as a starting point to
find out what to search for.
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3) What make of train is this?
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I think it is a Bombardier(1) Talent DMU,
these seem to be a common design across much of Europe (and even Canada) with
various regional and operational variations. The ERS has various galleries of
German DMUs. and also
EMUs I suggest trying classes
643 and 644.
If it is, see here!
Tim
(1) Rubbish Flash website I’m afraid
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In lugnet.trains, Didier Enjary wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
> Have you not been able to find what you are searching on the
> <http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix_frameset.html Railfaneurope website>
> (eventhough not german website) ?
Indeed, that's one of the best places to start your search. I believe it's
belongs to the 423, 424, 425 and 426 series, you find links to their picture
galleries on this page (most have a level of subdirectories beneath them):
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/electric/emu/pix.html
The 445 series on the same page is a double deck EMU with simillar looks.
There are als diesel driven multiple units (DMU's). German ones you'll find
here:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/diesel/dmu/pix.html
For instance, this double-deck railbus is rather special:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/diesel/dmu/670/pix.html
Dutch EMU's and DMU's are also very interesting:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/nl/electric/emu/pix.html
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/nl/diesel/dmu/pix.html
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/nl/private/Syntus/LINT/pix.html
The last one, operated by the private transportation company Syntus, has a close
resemblence to the german DMU's of the 640-648 series.
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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Also, this site is an invaluable reference:
<http://www.worldrailfans.org/Articles/Europe/Ger-EngDictionary.shtml>
I'm a native German speaker, and I have fond memories of my
Dad and I building a little Marklin train layout.
The German words are often hilarious in their pronunciation and
number of syllables, and I sometimes cruise through the list
for names for servers.
It beats using planets or characters from Lord of the Rings for
your servers. You get names like:
funkenfanger
bremserhaus
dampfdom
huckepackwagen
kolbenstange
saugluft
schlepptenderlok
I'll leave it to you to look them up :-)
Ralph
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Have you not been able to find what you are searching on the
Railfaneurope website
(eventhough not german website) ?
Didier
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Thanks Didier,
I think it might be a 425. Perhaps someone could confirm this?
Tim
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In lugnet.trains, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> Also, this site is an invaluable reference:
>
> <http://www.worldrailfans.org/Articles/Europe/Ger-EngDictionary.shtml>
>
> I'm a native German speaker, and I have fond memories of my
> Dad and I building a little Marklin train layout.
>
> The German words are often hilarious in their pronunciation and
> number of syllables, and I sometimes cruise through the list
> for names for servers.
>
> It beats using planets or characters from Lord of the Rings for
> your servers. You get names like:
>
> funkenfanger
> bremserhaus
> dampfdom
> huckepackwagen
> kolbenstange
> saugluft
> schlepptenderlok
>
> I'll leave it to you to look them up :-)
>
> Ralph
Oh! Thank you. Really interesting. I hope I remember enough German
pronounciation to do justice to them ;)
I'll also add this link to BrickWiki's train terms and German trains articles.
Tim
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Hi Tim,
"Tim Gould" <t.gould(AT@)lancaster(DOT.)ac(DOT.)uk> writes:
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> I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting
> EMUs there operating as commuter trains for the
> service. Unfortunately my train finding skills aren't so
> good and are even worse when I don't know the correct
> words in a language. I tracked down one tiny pic of this
> train
> (<<http://xn--kln-trier-07a.de/4images/data/thumbnails/7/hinterderbahn.jpg>>)
the german word for the kind of car used in this train is "Doppelstockwagen".
So
http://images.google.com/images?q=doppelstockwagen&btnG=Search+Images
will find you a few more pictures.
Cheers
Jürgen "who likes to sit on the upper deck when going home for the weekend"
--
Jürgen Stuber <juergen@jstuber.net>
http://www.jstuber.net/
gnupg key fingerprint = 2767 CA3C 5680 58BA 9A91 23D9 BED6 9A7A AF9E 68B4
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Dear German speakers,
I recently visited Koeln and saw some extrmely interesting EMUs there
operating as commuter trains for the service. Unfortunately my train finding
skills aren’t so good and are even worse when I don’t know the correct words
in a language. I tracked down one tiny pic of this train
()
I am hoping someone can help me with a few requests:
1) What is the way you say EMU in German
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EMU = Triebzug mit Elektromotor
EMUs = Triebzüge mit Elektromotor
(For DMU replace Elektro with Diesel)
Nahverkehrszüge or Regionalzüge (Also words like Nahverkehr, Regionalverkehr and
Regionalbahn can help you finding more in German on the internet)
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2) What German websites are good for finding train pictures?
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Besides the already mentioned site:
Drehscheibe : www.drehscheibe-online.de
Lok-Report: www.lok-report.de
Or google on words like:
Eisenbahn (railway)
Baureihe (class or make of trains)
Zug, Züge, Zuege (train, trains)
Triebzug, Triebzüge, Triebzuege (MU,MUs)
Lok, Lokomotive (locomotive)
Bilder (pictures, photographs)
(Note that ‘ue’ is a different way of writing ‘ü’)
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3) What make of train is this?
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In the small picture I see two rows of windows, so it’s double stock.
The front does not look like the electric double stock EMU class 445.
Within the DMUs, I could not find any matching double stock DMUs.
So I think the small picture shows a double stock steering car.
From the small picture it is hard to tell which type it is.
More double stock coaches can be found here:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/car/double_deck/pix.html
Some German words to search for are:
Wendezug (returntrain, train with driving cab at rearside, I don’t know a good
English word for this)
Steuerwagen (steering car)
Doppelstock (double deck)
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Any other help would of course be appreciated.
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These trains are used for Regional Bahn (commuter trains/all station stops) and
Regional Expresse (longer distance regional trains)
You’re welcome
Niels
(Not German, but close enough to Germany to understand some of it :-) )
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In lugnet.trains, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Dear German speakers,
Thank you in advance.
Tim
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone who has responded. I’ve begun building a 425 series and hope
to have some pictures of it for you soon.
I got so much information that I have begin adding to the German trains section
of Brickwiki (www.brickwiki.org). Yuu can see what I’ve done
here. I’ve
tried to incorporate everything I have read in this thread but I’m sure I must
have missed stuff. Please feel free to add anything you like to this article.
Once again, thank you to everyone.
Tim
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