The sky was overcast at first but was forecast to clear. I reckoned the best place to be was on the right bank where more traffic meant more chance of getting something if there was a break in the clouds. I went to Lorch but the right bank wasn’t busier. All the diverted ICs had gone back to the left bank and there was some freight on the left bank as well. The cloud broke around 10:15, just after 139.287 had passed, but it was almost 11:00 before I got a southbound freight in sun, followed almost immediately by another one. A quick dash down to Assmannshausen bagged another two southbound freights before the sun got too far round.

Then I struggled to find good locations, trying several spots that turned out to be overgrown before ending up back at Oberwesel for the afternoon. Inevitably the right bank freights began to run thick and fast once I’d moved to the left bank. Among the gems I missed were four departmental workings, two hauled by ex DB V100s, one by an ex DR V100 and one hauled by a pair of V200s in RTS livery. There were a handful of freights on the left bank as well, two of which passed at precisely the same moment after three hours with only a single freight.

On the plus side, 103.235 covered IC118 and IC119 and EC6 and EC7 were Dispolok 182s although IC118 was the only one photographed in sun. Only one of the many 101s was in a silly livery so that was a bonus as well and IC2013 unexpectedly turned up behind a 120.

Once the sun died on EC6 I thought that was it for the day but it came back for a couple of shots across the river at St. Goarshausen before finally disappearing for good.

S of Lorch

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
185.001		SB Freight	09:20
152.089		NB Freight	09:22
139.287		SB Vans	10:11
428.138 [VIAS]	SE25013	09:37 Neuwied - Frankfurt (M) Hbf	10:51
189.821 [LOCON]		SB Vans	10:56
185.054		NB Freight	10:59
185.301		SB Freight	11:01
294.644 294.579 261.030		NB Light Engines	11:06
189.111 [DISPO] 189.108 [DISPO]		NB Vans	11:13

N of Assmannshausen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
185.184		SB Steel Coil	11:23
140.037 [PRESS]		NB Light Engine	11:24
185.005		SB Vans	11:35
427.153 [VIAS] 427.151 [VIAS]	SE25015	10:37 Neuwied - Frankfurt (M) Hbf	11:47

Oberwesel

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
120.126	IC2013	06:01 Magdeburg Hbf - Oberstdorf	13:33
460.009	MRB25337	12:53 Koblenz Hbf - Mainz Hbf	13:37
101.093 propelling	IC2312	11:37 Stuttgart Hbf - Hamburg-Altona	14:09
101.065	IC2313	08:32 Hamburg-Altona - Stuttgart Hbf	14:15
101.129	IC2006	09:23 Radolfzell - Dortmund Hbf	14:22
460.010 [MRB]	MRB25334	13:32 Mainz Hbf - Koblenz Hbf	14:35
401.067	ICE1026	13:44 Frankfurt (M) Hbf - Hamburg-Altona	14:46
185.365		NB Freight	15:21
460.007 [MRB]	MRB25338	14:32 Mainz Hbf - Koblenz Hbf	15:29
101.015	IC2012	09:46 Oberstdorf - Hannover Hbf	15:33
401.052	ICE1025	09:32 Hamburg-Altona - Frankfurt (M) Hbf	15:51
101.007	EC8	09:16 Chur - Hamburg-Altona	15:52
101.109	IC2217	07:27 Stralsund Hbf - Stuttgart Hbf	16:27
460.009	MRB25342	15:32 Mainz Hbf - Koblenz Hbf	16:34
185.xxx		SB Freight	16:43
186.103 [RPOOL]		NB Intermodal	16:43
186.148 [?]		SB Oil Tanks	16:47
101.024	IC2022	15:44 Frankfurt (M) Hbf - Hamburg-Altona	17:04
101.058	IC2327	09:08 Fehmarn-Burg - Passau Hbf	17:10
103.235	IC118	06:53 Salzburg Hbf - Münster (Westf) Hbf	17:35
101.045	IC2019	11:36 Norddeich Mole - Stuttgart Hbf	17:49
182.073 [DISPO]	EC6	11:16 Chur - Dortmund Hbf	17:55

S of St. Goarshausen

Loco	Train No.	Train Details	Notes
428.xxx	SE25024	16:53 Frankfurt (M) Hbf - Neuwied	18:33
185.002		SB Intermodal	18:36
185.271 185.347		SB Hoppers	18:44
185.391		NB Oil Tanks	18:58