Copenhagen train station. Visible is the City Hall tower. The diesel locomotive was made in Sweden, but of an American design including a General Motors engine.
Traveling from Copenhagen to Hamburg, the train was actually transported by ferry boat from Rodby Denmark to Puttgarden Germany. Looking from the front car of the train at Rodby, the locomotive has been uncoupled and is seen ahead. A switch has been thrown, diverging to the left to run around the detached locomotive. And another locomotive in the rear will push the train onto the ferry.
The train, being pushed from the rear, approaches the ferry boat at Rodby. The ferry boat smoke stack is visible above the end of the parked railroad car.
At Puttgarden, the plank with the rails is being lowered to attach to the ferry boat.
With the rail plank lowered, a German locomotive with additional cars backs onto our train at Puttgarden.
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, or main train station.
At the train station in Soltau, Germany. Those semaphore signals were mechanically operated from the tower to the left.