While 1602 waits at Aachen Hbf with D 411 (Oostende-Cologne) on 9 December 2002, it meets it's successor, a multiple system ICE 3 (class 406), which is about to depart for a test run in Belgium as E 16014. Three ICE's per day and direction between Frankfurt and Bruxelles will replace the loco-hauled trains to Oostende from 15 December on.

Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz