Dresden Hbf, 2001-02-07: by special request, here is a photo of one 
of Germany's most unavoidable carriages, 2nd class compartment
coach type Bm 235 in an InterCity train to Hamburg. Built in large 
numbers in the 1970s and enabled for 200 km/h, these cars were a 
modification of the old express cars Bm 234 from the 1960s for IC 
service, originally painted ivory and ocean-blue. They are still 
used in IC trains, even though they are not up to today's standards 
of passenger comfort any more, and in many cases quite worn out. 
This one carries the orient-red, pink and white IC livery of the 
late 1980s, meanwhile a few have been repainted in the newest 
colours traffic-red and white. A number of these cars are now 
planned to be modernized by PFA and sold to NS to help a shortage 
of rolling stock there. Photo taken by special request of Marco van 
Uden.
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photo: <a href="mailto:tbk_@gmx.de">tobias b köhler</a>