Tramcar 2048 of the Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe (KVB) is the trailing unit of
a double traction, waiting in the turning loop at Longerich (northern end of
line 6) on 19 February 2004. This line, which is only operating during the rush
hour, was run with double tractions instead of single cars, as a high amount of
passengers was expected on that day ("Weiberfastnacht", the Thursday where the
carnival starts). Among trains of the well-known eight-axled cars (probably all
belonging to 3200 series), also six-axled cars of 2000 series were used. In
contrast to many other turning loops (a lot of them no more existing), this
loop obviously is not too tight for six-axled cars. Note that the display on
the sidewall shows the wrong line number (13 instead of 6).
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>
(<a href="mailto:christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de">christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de</a>)