The Grand Duchy of Baden was an independent state in what is now southwestern Germany until the creation of the German Empire in 1871. It had its own state-owned railway company, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways, which was founded in 1840. At the time when it was integrated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920, its network had an overall length of about 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi).
Baden premium bond from 1845/49 issued to finance railway construction.
Departure of a train from Heidelberg station, 1840.
Konstanz station still has today a slim clock tower typical of former Baden stations.
Composite Coach. Built 1878 by Swiss Industrial Company.
Main-Neckar Railway
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The Main-Neckar Railway is a main line railway west of the Odenwald in the Upper Rhine Plain of Germany that connects Frankfurt am Main to Heidelberg via Darmstadt, Bensheim and Weinheim. It was opened in 1846 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.
Loco # 3 of Main-Neckar-Bahn by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (1846)
Neckar Bridge at Ladenburg 1900