OLD S-BAHN TRAINS

If you have ever had Berlin nostalgia, it's probably partly for these, now gone to their graves. I rode the old trains with wooden seats every day, to school, for a year (1988-89) while I was a Congress-Bundestag exchange student in West Berlin. And now they're gone, replaced by strangely archaic, futuristic trains with a/c, smooth suspension, and digital signs that scroll the name of the next stop. Strangely, the future of the immediate past seems more outdated than the present of the slightly more distant past. Anti-modernism? Maybe.