ice-age-challenge-results

The results of the ICE Age Challenge. Each text file is one complete itinerary. The files are in directories by first station in the itinerary.

The code that created these results is up at: https://code.moof.space/moof/ice-age-challenge

The Challenge

The started from a comment by @quixoticgeek who said:

Clearly the challenge is to see if you can ride the complete set in one day. Ice 1, 2, 3, t, 3m, 3neo, 4, and L

The rules are thus:

• take all active ICE models in order, preferably only once
• finish in Köln to catch the ICE-L on the first day of service
• one trip between any two stations on each model will suffice
• I am allowed overnight stops somewhere
• I can take the same model of ICE multiple times, but only in sequence (so 2, 2, T is valid, but not 2, T, 2)
• non-ICE trains are valid at any point, in order to maintain the ICE sequence (particularly useful if bahned)
• all 2s and 4s and Ts are equivalent. I’m not chasing down a 402 and an 801, similarly, not having to do a 4 short and a 4 long.
• if there are 3Ms and TDs in museums, a break to visit them should happen, preferably in sequence or as close to it as possible (genuinely need flexibility here as very few ICEs go to Koblenz) (there aren't)
• as a bonus, take the other Talgo 230, the EuroCity from Copenhagen to Hamburg

The models I can take are (in order):

• ICE 1 - 401
• ICE 2 - 402/801
• ICE T - 411
• ICE 3 - 403
• ICE 3MS (ICE V) - 407
• ICE 4 - 412
• ICE 3neo - 408
• ICE L - 105