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Dresden Hbf, track 5: IC 870 "Käthe Kollwitz" with cab car Bpmbdzf 297 in front, painted in ICE colours. You can see the provisional building platform for rebuilding the roof, in the background the old hall still exists. 2001-07-07. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Dresden Hbf, track 5: rear end of the cab car Bpmbdzf 297 in IC 870 "Käthe Kollwitz", painted in ICE colours. It is based on a Bom 281 compartment car, but has been completely rebuilt with new doors, windows and bogies of Fiat-SIG type 725 with pneumatic suspension. 2001-07-07. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Close-up on the Fiat-SIG 725 bogie with pneumatic suspension of the Bpmbdzf 297 InterCity cab car. Dresden Hbf, 2001-07-07. Photo: tobias b köhler

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IC 870 "Käthe Kollwitz" in Dresden Hbf, track 5. The coach on the left is a Bpmbdzf 297 cab car in the series ICE livery; on the right you see a Bpmz 292, the only one in a preliminary version of the ICE livery with bright grey window band and a bright grey roof. Pneumatic suspension is rare among DBAG InterCity cars; here we see two examples with it: the Bpmbdzf 297 is equipped with new Fiat-SIG 725 bogies, the Bpmz 292 is one of a few prototypes built with LD 76 bogies in 1978. Despite the superior comfort of the pneumatic suspension, the series cars were ordered with the simpler steel-sprung MD 52 bogies. You can also compare two types of sliding doors: newer types of doors are operated with buttons. 2001-07-07. Photo: tobias b köhler

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Bpmbdzf297, Dresden-Neustadt Bpmbdzf297 leaving Dresden-Neustadt at the end of IC 2030 towards Hannover few minutes late. Planned departure was 19:02. Several construction works were still under way that time. Photo taken Monday 21 April 2014. Photo: Steffen Mokosch (Steffen.Mokosch@web.de)