When the Stuttgart - Zürich service went back to loco haulage a few years ago the trains were typically seven coaches long but this had dropped to five coaches by 2011. On a couple of occasions in September 2013, three coach rakes were seen but thankfully these were the exception, not the rule.
181.204 caught a rare patch of sun on 13 September 2013 as it passed Grünholz with IC183, the 09:56 from Stuttgart Hbf to Zürich Hbf.