File talk:2010-05-22 48 8 TrainE2.jpg

Something is... wrong with that picture of a passing train ;-) Who finds it?

I guess a geohasher known by the name of Ekorren came along and took away the wires for the electric engine because copper sells for big money these days? Or the driver forgot to pull the handbrake and the train started rolling by itself (like the S-Bahn in Ebersberg some years ago)? Seriously though, are they regularly putting electric engines on scheduled trains or just on rare occasions? What type was the diesel up front? --Zb 19:43, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, rare occasions. For some road construction work the line between Eutingen im Gäu and Horb was closed, and some trains got rerouted via Tübingen-Horb. Hauling locomotive was 218 456-2, btw.

Weird enough, they only rerouted the regional trains, and cancelled the international IC traffic to Switzerland without even running a replacement bus for them. Also, those reroutings were kind of funny but not very useful for most people (except of those who had bikes with them) since it was still faster to use the replacement buses between Eutingen and Horb in spite of their bad connections. I don't think the whole thing was very well planned. E.g. running the scheduled RB train Horb-Tübingen with a sufficiently long multiple RS1 unit and then without further stops to Stuttgart would have saved more than half an hour against the actual rerouting timetable. --Ekorren 20:15, 25 May 2010 (UTC)