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They need 2 powerful Vectrons to haul 4 passenger cars ?
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These trains Nuremberg - Sonneberg use a section of the new HSL Nuremberg - Erfurt, which is ETCS only (no conventional signalling installed). Cab cars with ETCS Level 2 are currently not available, so the ETCS equipped Vectron run in TnT to avoid running round in Sonneberg and Nuremberg.
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Hi Reinhard, thanks for explaining. The economics of modern railroading are quite surprising, look counter-intuitive to me. So if I understand well, it is cheaper to mobilize a second Vectron - how much capital immobilization? - and consuming more electricity than paying some railroad employee(s) time for shunting one engine around its train! The cost ratio per passenger must be astronomically high relative to one engine and shunting it, don't you think?
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