All Aboard – First Intercity Hydrail Train

Blue Coradia iLint Hydrogen Multiple Unit light rail train
On Sunday, September 16, 2018, at Bremervörde, in the State of Niedersachsen, Germany, I boarded the first intercity hydrail train—my dream since 2003! It was Alstom’s shiny new blue Coradia iLint Hydrogen Multiple Unit light rail train, wireless electric and silent as the wind turbines on the North German horizon which will soon power most of Germany’s formerly-diesel passenger trains.
This week, reflecting on tha