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At some point in time, long enough after I have arrived in Germany, S-Bahn Rhein Ruhr brought some old rollingstocks back onto the S1 Line, citing technical considerations. What's curious about this change was that the vintage trains ( Class 420 EMUs or Eastern German locomotive-hauled trains with the x-Wagen on the tail-end) did not run the entire route. In fact, the S1 was cut into two portions, one from Dortmund Hbf to Bochum Hbf (later to Essen-Steele Ost) which utilized older equipment exclusively, the other from Bochum Hbf to Solingen Hbf, and only had the newer Class 422 trains. I don't suppose the majority of the passengers that frequent this route had been greatly affected, thanks to the numerous Regional Bahn and Regional Express trains that stop at the major stations between Dortmund and Solingen, but it felt weird to me. I mean, after all, once a railroader, always a railroader. Class 422 on the left, and the older train got cut off by me... Given all the...

It's 2017, and I've finally bought a SD Card that's fast enough for low-compression 1080p video recording! A few years too late, but I had to test it out with my 70D. It's still a very good camera for what I use it for anyway, and it does 1080p recording at 30 fps (doesn't even sound as impressive as the iPhone, I know, but meh). So with my little Gorillapod, I set up shop at Düsseldorf Airport and Düsseldorf Benrath yesterday. Here are the results after some basic editing with iMovie. Maybe when the money situation gets better, I'll get myself a nice microphone and tripod and explore some of this video stuff a little more. I don't expect huge results, knowing the limit of my creativity, but hey, this stuff is kind of fun.