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A documentary about the German Federal Railway in the 1950s, shortly after the Trans European Express was put on the rails. Does the state-owned company really use all the technical possibilities of the time and can the balancing act between the responsibility and limitations of the state-owned company and at the same time economic activity succeed? Subscribe to German television history on YouTube: https://goo.gl/UavXv3 33,000 trains of the German Federal Railway run every day and if all the freight wagons were coupled together, a route from Hamburg to Frankfurt would be created. This makes the German Federal Railway the largest transport company in the world and the circulatory system of the German economy. For years, this mammoth company has been in the red. Some say this is due to its public service mission, others see the reasons in the official structure of the company and the partially contradictory Federal Railway Act. A production of Hessischer Rundfunk, 1958