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*shenanigan87 recently asked whether he should take more pictures of freight trains. My reply: Of course! Where else are you going to see a totally yellow locomotive that looks as if it was built from Lego bricks, with advertisement for Märklin?

92 80 1214 010-1 D-EVULW used to be a normal class V 100 (west) locomotive, but was extensively rebuilt by Alstom's Stendal (Germany) Factory in 2008. It now runs for Leonhard Weiss, a construction company I admittedly never heard about before today. To the best of my knowledge, Märklin does not offer this locomotive or in fact this rebuilt type at all, nor have they announced it yet, so it's curious that they'd put advertising on it. Well, their problem.

The reason it is standing here (here being the huge amount of freight tracks in Stolberg central station) is that the Alsdorf-Stolberg part of the line Herzogenrath-Stolberg is being reopened, probably by the end of 2011, although delays could still happen. The complete line is also known as circle line, since it is a connection between the lines Aachen-Cologne (in east-west direction) and Aachen-Mönchengladbach (roughly north-south). It is not a true circle line, however: A train that wants to run a full circle has to change directions in Stolberg central station.
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*JSH50 Sep 29, 2012
I cannot see the center contacts, If it two rail it must be Trix! Interesting picture!
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~ZCochrane Sep 29, 2012  Student Photographer
Lol, that's true!

(And I've just noticed that the description is outdated again. Now the line will be finished, maybe, in 2013. I don't believe until I see it, though.)
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*JSH50 Sep 29, 2012
At least your country is opening lines!
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~ZCochrane Sep 29, 2012  Student Photographer
Well, mostly old ones that were closed in the 1970s and 1980s. But I guess we're still rather unique with that in all of Europe. It's a bit odd, because our experiences definitely show that if you re-open a branch line with modern infrastructure, modern rolling stock and an attractive service (that part is important; "just some service" won't cut it), people will come and use it. I think the UK, for example, should have a lot of lines which are good targets for reopening.
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*JSH50 Sep 29, 2012
It would be great if the public would use them, Its just they are an anti- social lot who would rather be in a car than sit next to a stranger on public transport!
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*TomRedlion Sep 29, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
We tend to have the same problem in the US.
Although, commuter lines are being built/rebuilt and opened all the time. American commuters are beginning to understand that their car isn't the be-all, end-all answer to their transportation needs. Finding a parking space in downtown Big City USA has always been a problem and it will only get worse. Commuters are starting to realize this.

As for renting space on the sides of their locomotives to advertisers... American railroads could earn some level of revenue that way. It's been done a few times on Amtrak locomotives. Freight locos could do the same. However, some law many decades ago changed the way things are done and the classic "Billboard Reefer" car of the 1920s is long gone.
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~gundam-genki Apr 3, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
This is possibly the smartest place to put an advertisement for a model train manufacturer I've ever seen... :P
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~ZCochrane Apr 3, 2011  Student Photographer
Yeah, but Märklin has done that before, and on trains that make more sense. This locomotive is only used for freight duty, so most people will never see or notice it. And Märklin does not sell the type, so they can't produce an exclusive model of it. Normally, their advertisement was on standard passenger machines like the class 120 or so, which lots of people would see regularly.
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~Comboio-Bolt Apr 2, 2011
Interesting locomotive. Nice shot. :)
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~acela Apr 1, 2011
Great shot!
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