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VT10 551i, the only remaining fragment of the highly innovative (but not very successful) articulated DMUs VT10 of 1953. The VT10 551 was built as a night train with sleeping cars, in 1956 an additional salon car was built. In the early 1960s the trains were scrapped, only the salon car (VT10 551i) was used as an office room. In 1967 it was sold to the Nürnberger Eisenbahnfreunde and in 1980 moved to its current location near the station Nürnberg-Stein. 2007-02-03 tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i, Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i. The VT10 units were the first airconditioned trains in Germany, built of riveted aluminium alloy. They followed Franz Kruckenberg's pre-war experiments (and Kruckenberg developed the single-axle bogies of the daytime train VT10 501, of which nothing remains). Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i. As the salon car has no side doors, the entrance is from the end where the gangway to the next car used to be. Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i. The car includes two Jacobs bogies (experimental MAN design, built by Wegmann). Disk brakes may also be a first .... Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i. The bogie on the other side. Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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VT10 551i. Interior of the salon. Some say that president Theodor Heuss went in this car to Greece, but probably it was delivered too late for that .... Nürnberg-Stein, 2007-02-03, tobias b köhler

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Another visit to the VT10 552i - last remnant of the famous but short-living VT10 units. Nürnberg Stein, 2012-02-03 tobias b köhler