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sidblack		#1 Posted : 25 April 2020 03:10:02(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 09/05/2012(UTC) Posts: 175 Location: Canberra		Just leaving Villingen on my virtual journey through the Black Forest, I spotted this on a side track. It seemed a lonely and neglected place to park such an iconic train. A quick Wikipedia search didn't seem to provide an explanation for it being there either. Any ideas? VT 11.5 TEE.png (1,146kb) downloaded 190 time(s).

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PJMärklin		#2 Posted : 25 April 2020 06:15:17(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 2,210 Location: Hobart, Australia		Originally Posted by: sidblack Just leaving Villingen on my virtual journey through the Black Forest, I spotted this on a side track. It seemed a lonely and neglected place to park such an iconic train. A quick Wikipedia search didn't seem to provide an explanation for it being there either. Any ideas? VT 11.5 TEE.png (1,146kb) downloaded 190 time(s). The comments attached to the video include, according to my google translate (not my Bradshaw's ) : "Very nice route, good visibility! Too bad about the 601 in Villingen - from standing around there doesn't get any better." to which there are replies : "And unfortunately such unsuspecting historical vehicles are disfigured" "And in January 2020, they were dismantled and scrapped" Further search reveals an explanatory article, in summary : The full article explains it further : https://translate.google...10158944&prev=search Regards, PJ

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PJMärklin		#3 Posted : 25 April 2020 06:29:59(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 2,210 Location: Hobart, Australia		And it was also spotted on a number of occasions at *Altbach* ... :

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sidblack		#4 Posted : 25 April 2020 06:37:27(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 09/05/2012(UTC) Posts: 175 Location: Canberra		Thanks PJ, I knew the answer would be found quickly on this forum. I had glanced through the comments for the video but was looking for VT 11 and not 601 which they were reclassified as according to the Wikipedia article. Your article from Südkurier explains it well and also it's sad fate.

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Alsterstreek		#5 Posted : 25 April 2020 08:55:27(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 5,669 Location: Hybrid Home		The horror! Gory pictures of the scrapping in January - only for people with strong nerves: https://www.bahnbilder.d...-014-3-in-villingen.html
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PJMärklin		#6 Posted : 25 April 2020 09:08:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 04/12/2013(UTC) Posts: 2,210 Location: Hobart, Australia		This vision may offend some viewers!

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IanC		#7 Posted : 26 April 2020 02:09:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 05/03/2016(UTC) Posts: 347 Location: England, Bedford		I photographed various bits of tee 11.5 sets in the museum at SVG Horb in September 2017 and I believe they were transferred there following the fire at the DB Museum in Nurnberg but on a more recent visit in September 2019 they had gone. I hope they weren't any of the ones that were scrapped at Villingen. IanC

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Alsterstreek		#8 Posted : 26 April 2020 14:33:53(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/11/2011(UTC) Posts: 5,669 Location: Hybrid Home		I hate to be the bearer of bad news again: As I understand, there used to be two TEE sets on display in Horb, 1x class 601 and 1x class 602, and it is this class 601 set which was scrapped now.
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Jabez		#9 Posted : 26 April 2020 15:21:44(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 30/08/2016(UTC) Posts: 636 Location: Brussels		Originally Posted by: sidblack Just leaving Villingen on my virtual journey through the Black Forest, I spotted this on a side track. It seemed a lonely and neglected place to park such an iconic train. A quick Wikipedia search didn't seem to provide an explanation for it being there either. Any ideas? Well Caught!! Years ago I used to regularly ride this one, or one very like it, from Brussels to Luxembourg, The trains was the Btussels to Zurich TEE. Maybe if I had stayed aboard longer I might have passed its Schwarzwald resting place
		I heard that lonesome whistle blow. Hank Williams

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sidblack		#10 Posted : 08 November 2021 22:07:46(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 09/05/2012(UTC) Posts: 175 Location: Canberra		I just found this update on the VT11.5. It seems the restoration has only got to the cosmetic stage and it won't be running again. (I was reading the auto-generated subtitles with auto-translate so might have missed some important information). In my opinion it's got to be one of the world's most striking looking trains.

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marklinist5999		#11 Posted : 09 November 2021 12:15:09(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 10/02/2021(UTC) Posts: 3,127 Location: Michigan, Troy		Unfrtunate if they don't get it running again after all that. They were working on wiring, etc. Perhaps at least to light the cars up. The turbo sound these make is neat.

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