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Mannheim vs Manheim

1998 and 2024.

Like it or not, local spelling (and pronunciation) is always correct.

I visited Mannheim, Germany in August 1998, where I made this Sensia color slide of a DB class 103 electric departing the main station.

Manheim, Pennsylvania is a town on the old Reading Company that is less than half an hour from our home in Lancaster.

Fujichrome Sensia (100 ISO), exposed using a Nikon F3T with f2.8 135mm Nikkor telephoto lens.
Nikon Z7-II with 24-70mm Nikkor Z-series zoom. Camera mounted on a Bogen tripod.

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Classic Chrome: On this day, 24 May 1996 Views along the Rhein.

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Classic Chrome: On this day, 24 May 1996 Views along the Rhein.

On this day in 1996, my father and I made a circle trip along the Rhein from Köln to Koblenz, traveling south via the Right Bank and north via the Left Bank lines.

Working with two cameras, I exposed these views on Kodachrome and Fujichrome slide film.

Looking back, its amazing to see how much has changed on German railways in the last 22 years.

Confluence of Rhein and Mosel rivers at Koblenz. 24 May 1996.

DB shunting locomotives at Koblenz Hbf on 24 May 1996.

View of a northward freight on the Right Bank line along the Rhein from the walls of the Festung Ehrenbreitstein (fortress).

A northward IC train passes Namedy, Germany at speed behind a class 103 electric.

Minutes later a northward EC (EuroCity) long distance train passes Namedy, this view with a 28mm lens.

The scenic Mittelrhein are among the great railway trips profiled in my new book Brian Solomon’s Railway Guide to Europe, now available from Kalmbach Books/Kalmbach Hobby Store.

My new guide book on European Railway Travel with a cup of Barry’s Tea.

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