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Jeff - I have fond memories of rides in one of them "red buzzers" or in German "Roter Brummer". During my final year at the University of Cologne, I was sick and tired of being stuck in a traffic jam every morning and every evening, so I opted for taking the train. It cut traveling time down to half! At the beginning, it was still a Roter Brummer making up the train. I always managed to get a front seat, right behind the driver. The buzzers did not only have a distinct sound to them, but also a very special smell in them. A mixture of Diesel, toilet odor and an undefined smell coming from the plastic upholstery. I never got around taking a picture, as they were nothing special in those days - at least that´s what I thought. Later in that year, they were taken out of service and replaced by a V 100 Diesel hydraulic loco pulling a string of "Umbauwagen" - coaches rebuilt on the platform of at that time 80 year old Prussian 6-wheeled cars. Not much of an improvement, but a little faster, cutting 5 minutes off the timetable. A typical consist looked close to what Fleischmann offers in N scale: <a href="http://www.1zu160.net/neues/neu07/gfn-august07.jpg"><img src="http://www.1zu160.net/neues/neu07/gfn-august07.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> A lot of those "Red Buzzers" were sold to Greece, Croatia and other exotic countries. Only a few are preserved now.
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