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Regarding the steam locomotive rolling in front of me I thought of Black Sabbath's album "Under Wheels Of Confusion"
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Indeed but a german empire existed only to 1918. And the Deutsche Reichsbahn was found after this year (I guess 1923). Maybe they have chosen the name in reminding of the formerly empire. And still in the eastern part of germany - what's ment to be socialistic, they called the national railway "Deutsche Reichsbahn" which existed to 1994. Strange thing I know.
I'll just quote wikipedia here.
"The status of Berlin is also believed to be the reason the East Germans retained the name Deutsche Reichsbahn as it was mentioned as such in transit treaties. After the foundation of East Germany on 7 October 1949 the East German government continued to run all the railways in its territory under the official name Deutsche Reichsbahn (1949–1994), by so doing it maintained responsibility for almost all railway transport in all four sectors of Berlin. Had the DR been renamed, for example, Staatseisenbahn der DDR (State Railways of the GDR) along the lines of other East German institutions, the Western Allies would probably have refused to recognize it as the same or a successor organization and removed its right to operate in West Berlin. The legal necessity of keeping the term ' Deutsche Reichsbahn' explains the surprising use of the word 'Reich' (with its Imperial and Nazi connotations) in the name of an official organisation of the communist GDR. This quasi-official presence in West Berlin was apparently very important to the GDR regime, otherwise it is hard to explain the GDR's willingness to incur large hard currency deficits to operate and maintain the West Berlin railway system."
"The status of Berlin is also believed to be the reason the East Germans retained the name Deutsche Reichsbahn as it was mentioned as such in transit treaties. After the foundation of East Germany on 7 October 1949 the East German government continued to run all the railways in its territory under the official name Deutsche Reichsbahn (1949–1994), by so doing it maintained responsibility for almost all railway transport in all four sectors of Berlin. Had the DR been renamed, for example, Staatseisenbahn der DDR (State Railways of the GDR) along the lines of other East German institutions, the Western Allies would probably have refused to recognize it as the same or a successor organization and removed its right to operate in West Berlin. The legal necessity of keeping the term ' Deutsche Reichsbahn' explains the surprising use of the word 'Reich' (with its Imperial and Nazi connotations) in the name of an official organisation of the communist GDR. This quasi-official presence in West Berlin was apparently very important to the GDR regime, otherwise it is hard to explain the GDR's willingness to incur large hard currency deficits to operate and maintain the West Berlin railway system."
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