This picture shows the last EuroCity train "Etoile du Nord" just south of 
Dordrecht in The Netherlands. The locomotive is a Belgian museum locomotive 
with the number 204.004, which was built in 1955 after a NOHAB design.<br>
The coaches are old TEE stainless steel INOX coaches of the French and 
Belgian railways.
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The day after the photo was taken (1 June 1996) all locomotive-hauled 
trains between Amsterdam and Paris were replaced by Thalys high-speed 
trainsets. The coaches will now probably be used for the trains between 
Li&egrave;ge/Luik and Paris, or even between Frankfurt/M and Paris.
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Photo by Arno Peters <Arno.Peters@p12.f604.n284.z2.elcom.org>
Scan by Johan van den Akker <vdakker@cwi.nl>