(It reminds me of a summer holiday with my grandparents when I was about 8, when my also train-crazy+professional grandfather took me out around 4am to watch the night express, after which both of us were terribly scolded by my grandmother...)
Here is an image of the train, more at RailFanEurope.net (my main European source for images in the MTB series):
*Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.