Afternoon all!

These may be my last train photos for 2010 – tonight will see us having dinner with some friends and then probably riding to the city to watch the fireworks. However, I did want to do a final look-see for myself before New Year and our trip home tomorrow...

I chose the 12 line to ride down to the city. Across the intersection of Virchowstraße and Coppistraße, NGT8 car 1103 "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy" was taking on passengers.

The next opposite service was worked with a Tatra "Großzug", headed by T4D-M car 2192 and with a NB4 trailer behind the two motor cars. The severe winter weather in recent days has seen the Tatras spread to lines where they were no longer usually found, as these high-floor cars appear to be less affected by deep snow than the low-floor cars with smaller ground clearance and wheels.

The 14 line is now working its usual route to Plagwitz Station again, having had to be detoured to the Angerbrücke depot for an extended period of time due to road and bridge repair work. Here, car 2108 and company are waiting in the reversing loop at Plagwitz.

This here was the Möckern stop, which is served by suburban trains on the S1 line and regional stopping services to and from Weißenfels. Under a grey sky and over snow which was beginning to turn to slush, five-car ICE-T set 415 021 "Homburg/Saar" was coasting through on the wrong track, which I believe was necessary due to permanent way work further up the line.

411 076 "Coburg", a 2nd batch set of this class of seven-car ICE-T sets, was on the wrong track as well...

...while 143 816, working the 37133 service on the S1 line with two ex-DR double deck coaches in tow, was literally back on the right track . I also spotted one set working the S1 line consisting of one 143 and just one double deck driving trailer . I figure there's a prototype for pretty much everything!