Deutsche Bahn ICE 1

The Deutsche Bahn ICE 1 is a High Speed EMU that operates all throughout Germany and surrounding countries. The ICE 1 was the first commercial production EMU in the Deutsche Bahn's ICE series. Trains on average are made of 2 DB class 401 power cars, and 12-14 intermediate coaches.
== History ==
Following the experimental success of The ICE V/Experimental, The Deutsche Bahn wanted Siemens to make a commercial production variant of the ICE Experimental. The 1st set was made in 1989 and service started in 1991 with trains being allowed to operate at 250 km/h (155.3 mph). The trains were refurbished from 2005 to 2008. Today only a handful of ICE 1 consists run on the Deutsche Bahn high speed lines.
On June 3, 1998, Trainset 51, running as ICE 884 "Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen" from Munich to Hamburg was involved in a serious accident near the town of Eschede, killing 101. The crash was caused by a wear on its dual-bloc wheels—a steel tire of the wheel fractured and penetrated into the passenger compartment. As the train approached a set of switches, the embedded steel tire collected a guide rail, driving it into the passenger compartment and derailing the coach. One of the now-derailed wheels then struck the switch and changed its setting, resulting the train to veer sideways into a bridge column, hitting it, collapsing the bridge and causing the remainder of the train to pile up into the wreck.
== 1993 ICE Train North America Tour ==
2 years after the ICE 1 entered service, the American passenger train corp Amtrak, wanted to have test subjects to see the required specifications for a high speed train in North America. Siemens showed the ICE 1 train, organizing the ICE Train North America Tour which started to operate on the Northeast Corridor on July 3, 1993. This testing allowed Amtrak to define a set of specifications that went into a public tender in October 1994.
==Gallery==
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