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DB observation car AB4üe 11700 = 51 80 89-53 901-0 rebuilt 1953 from a coach built 1938 for the train "Blauer Enzian". DB 181 201-5 (Krupp/AEG 1974), two-system locomotive for trains to France and Luxembourg. Preserved in the state of 1990, not operational. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB 51 80 89-53 901-0 ex Sal4üe 11700. Observation car built as C4ü-38 19347, 1950 rebuilt to Salon4üe 10217, 1954 rebuilt again to AB4üe 11700. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB 51 80 89-53 901-0 ex Sal4üe 11700. The Henschel-Wegmann train was built 1935 for a fast connection between Berlin and Dresden (1936 to 1939), then for internal transport of military officers, at the end of the second world war as hospital train. After another rebuild used in the prestigious train "Blauer Enzian" Hamburg to München, which required two trainsets. The observation car was built to match the Wegmann train together with other coaches. Two cars of that set are preserved in Koblenz, the Henschel-Wegmann train was scrapped. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB 51 80 89-53 901-0 ex Sal4üe 11700. The original window arrangement of its time as a third class coach can still be seen; to make this first class, pairs of two compartments were joined to form large seven-seat compartments with a rotating seat in the middle. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB 51 80 89-53 901-0 ex Sal4üe 11700. After complaints about the ride quality of the original bogies it was rebuilt with new Minden-Deutz bogies. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB 51 80 89-53 901-0 ex Sal4üe 11700. Rebuilt with standard folding door. Koblenz-Lützel, 2020-10-03. tobias b köhler

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DB observation car at the end of a special train pulled by S 3/6 3672 and 01 066. Dresden Hbf, May 1996. Photo by Tobias B. Köhler (unci@tigerden.com)

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This is the last car of the former "Blauer Enzian" (blue gentian) train of the (former) DB. It was at the end of that train and is the last that still exists. The "Blauer Enzian" did not only have a dome car, but also this comfete platform car where you could look out of the rear window. Photo by Sven Herzfeld (s.herzfeld@maschsee.han.de)