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el 2010“in Germany - ”Dampfspektakel 2010“Jens-Christian König. On December 07th 1835, Germany's firstofficial train ran between Nuremberg and Fürth. The inauguraltrain hauled by the ”Adler“ travelled the 6 kilometres in 9 minutesat roughly 40 km/h, a spectacular speed for that time and aquantum leap in comparison with the stagecoach, the mainmeans of transport of the day. No one could anticipate howfundamentally railways would change life and work in Germanyand world over. Today, 175 years on, the railway has become auniversal, reliable and environmentally-friendly form of masstransport.175 years of railways in Germanyis being celebrated in style withevents all over the country -starting off at Easter with theDampfspektakel 2010 – a spectac -ular steam show – on the Moselleand Saar rivers and in the Eifelregion. This event was organisedby the Association of GermanMuseum and Tourist Railways(VDMT) with different partners ona largely voluntary basis.More than 200 trains – includingmany historic steam-poweredmodels – from different periods ofGerman railway history trundledalong from Trier to Saarbrücken,Koblenz, Gerolstein and Luxem -bourg from Good Friday to EasterMonday, transforming the regioninto a 4-day open-air railwaymuseum, and transporting pas -sen gers back in time.About 20 steam locomotives and70 historic passenger and freightcars from rail museums all overGermany rolled along the tracks;including the Prussian Länderbahnfrom 1890 and the legendarysixties TEE ”Rheingold“. Gerolsteindepot was the centre of oper ations.The locomotives were fuell ed andwatered in Gerolstein roundhousewhile visitors looked on.At the same time, the DeutscheBahn Museum in Koblenz-Lützelhad a locomotive exhibition.Visitors enjoyed rides on a re -plica of the ”Adler“ (built in 1935)and on the first German-builtlocomotive ”Saxonia“, and watch -ed vintage diesel and electriclocos on parade.Steam trains also chugged alongthe Brohl valley meter-gaugebetween Brohl in Rheintal andEngeln in the Eifel. Two steamlocomotives joined service car -riages to bring back memories ofthe era of slow trains with tinklingbells.Altogether, 35,000 passengerswere counted on board thehistoric vehicles. Hundreds of railenthusiasts and onlookers fromGermany, England, USA andJapan lined the routes to get aglimpse of the choo-choos andtake photos.Jubilee year 2010 offers manymore opportunities to experiencerailway history live. Visitwww.vdmt.de. for an overview ofevents.jens-christian.koenig@hanning-kahl.comVorschau Ausgabe Oktober 2010A look ahead to our next issue October 2010INNOVATIONEN UNDTRENDSNeuer WeichenantriebHWU42INNOVATIONEN UNDTRENDSNeue Weichensteuerung HN-P IIUPDATEWeichenantrieb HW61.1EREIGNISSEInnoTrans 2010INNOVATIONS ANDTRENDSNew point machine HWU42INNOVATIONS ANDTRENDSNew point controller HN-P IIUPDATEPoint machine HW61.1EVENTInnoTrans 2010Herausgeber/Published byHANNING & KAHL GmbH & Co KG,Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 633813 OerlinghausenTel. +49-5202-707-600Fax. +49-5202-707-629E-mail: info@hanning-kahl.comwww.hanning-kahl.dewww.tramnews.comRedaktion/Editor: Wolfgang HelasAnzeigenleitung und Gestaltung/Advertising and layout:Sigrid Riewe-ScholzÜbersetzung/Translation:Helen ClearySatz und Litho/Typesetting and lithography:scanlitho.teams,BielefeldDruck/Printed bySCHOLZ Druck & Design KG, BielefeldDer Bezug ist kostenlos. Der Inhalt derBeiträge gibt nicht in jedem Fall dieMeinung des Herausgebers wieder.This publication is distributed free ofcharge. The opinions expressed in thispublication are not necessarily those ofthe editor.23