Comment on German Taurus by ZCochrane
Very interesting indeed! Isn't it coming from Hamburg ?
I think yes, but I'm not sure on that one. I do know that those Tauri were used on the Hamburg-Cologne line (which seems to be a magnet for unusual rolling stock anyway), and the direction certainly fits.
Yes a few years ago there was a Hamburg Stuttgart Hamburg train that produced a DB Taurus passing Cologne at about 10.30 and returning about 18.00