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It has now been decided what the German Intercity locomotive of
tomorrow will look like. In Modelleisenbahner Mai 1995 on page 4
I have found a picture of a model. ABB Daimler-Benz Transporta-
tion ordered a number of designs, DBAG chose one of them.

The cross-section will be like the one of the 120, with the
typical slanted roof edge, but the side walls go down to the
level of the axles. The front is different: there will be no
more horizontal edge, but the front goes down in a gentle curve
to the rectangular buffers. Thus the silhouette somehow reminds
of a hybrid between the 110.3 and the 103. As in the AEG 12X,
the slanted roof edge goes down the corners of the front. The
windshield consists of one window, with wipers arranged as those
of the 120, below it is the round upper headlight in a rectan-
gular window, the double lower headlights (outer white, inner
red) are above the buffers in rectangular windows. Side window
and door are arranged like those of the 120. As in the AEG 12X,
the pantographs are arranged like this: > < and there are no
other electric installations on the roof. The ventilation
grilles are in the upper slanted section of the roof, they look
a bit smaller than those of the 120.

The model is painted in an original combination of white, red
and grey, but apparently this is only a provisional scheme.
Apparently it has not yet been decided what the other ordered
locomotives (class 145 ][ and 152 ][) will look like. 

Let me try an ASCII drawing:
     _______                           _
    ' `._,' `                          "`----.
  ______|______               ___________,-'______
 /| _________ |\          ,-''  _______########___ 
| ||         || |       ,' ,-'|'|  |
| ||_________|| |      / ,'/__| |  |
| |    [o]    | |     / /       |  |
| |           | |    / /        |  |
| |[oo]___[oo]| |    | |        `--'
| |[__] + [__]| |  [=\ \         ==
|_|   ||#||   |_|     \_\________==_______________

Ah well. Doesn't come over very good. Especially the silhouette
is impossible to do in ASCII. But you get the idea. (If someone
is really interested I can scan the picture I have next week -
grey scale).


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