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[quote user="Electroliner 1935"]Enjoyable and interesting. On the first video, we're some passenger trains diesel?[/quote] You are right, there were a few DMUs. You need not use the catenary to run on electrified lines. Using DMUs can mean the train leaves the electrified line somewhere and continues on a not electrified secondary line. It is not unusual to watch diesel powered freight trains under catenary. In the beginning it was done to avoid a traction change when going on a non electrified line. In the mean time there are diesel runs unter catenary for the full length of the run. Not very ecological, but with about 150 railroad companies with the open access the market leads to such solution. [quote user="Electroliner 1935"]In the second, what cargo is carried in the reddish orange cars that looked like they could be coiled steel or coal hoppers?[/quote] Here I need your help. In the second video (Cologne-Mainz) it didn't find anything fitting. In the third video (Hamburg-Bremen) there is a train at 1:47. Cars 3 to 6 are low side gondolas loaded with small containers, the next seven are high side gondolas for everything except iron ore followed by three sliding-wall waggons: <a href="https://www.waggonbau-niesky.com/assets/components/phpthumbof/cache/2x2_sww_h%28f%29irrs_gr.a09da5de33354e2ff430fe7655e980de.jpg">https://www.waggonbau-niesky.com/assets/components/phpthumbof/cache/2x2_sww_h%28f%29irrs_gr.a09da5de33354e2ff430fe7655e980de.jpg</a> The are followed by a gondola and a number of tank cars and then three sliding-wall waggons again separated by a gondola. In the forth video (Hamburg-Hannover) you find Germany's heaviest freight train at 2:09. It is an iron ore train from the Port of Hamburg to Peine-Salzgitter weighing 6,300 tons. Usually it has two Class 151 locomotives as traction. The train is too heavy for the screw type coupling. Ore cars and locomotives are equipped with UIC-AK 69e automatic couplers. Regards, Volker
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