...might be a suitable title for today's entry . I checked out what was going on at Frankfurt Central Station after my course and got lucky in being able to capture the following two services...

Out of the total of 411 class 218 diesel locos which have been built, fifteen have been modified to serve as breakdown assistance locomotives for high speed lines. Nine of these are allocated to the Frankfurt depot, mainly for assistance on the Frankfurt-Cologne HSL, with one but being set aside for assistance service on the suburban network. This here is a pair of these locos: 218 837 and 838, to be precise. I'm not sure if this may just have been a check or driver proficiency ride, or if the locos actually set out on a breakdown assistance service. In any case, the current weather did wreak havoc on both roads and railways across Germany, so either option may be likely.

For towing ICE sets, they have Scharfenberg coupler adapters allocated to them, which need to be hooked onto the UIC couplers.

Speaking of traffic disruptions: This TGV POS set coming in from Paris on the TGV 9553 service - I think it was set 4417 - was about twenty minutes late.