Blockage.

 290 110 and its short train of empties blocks the crossing at Schinkendorf while waiting to depart.

Nobody's worried about this, as none of the waiting vehicles has a driver, and anyway they'll only be stuck behind the tractor 🚜 .

What's a heavy shunter like a 290 doing at a backwater like Schinkendorf? Perhaps deputising for one of the regular engines that's failed, or in test, fresh from overhaul or repair.

Actually, I bought the 290, which seems to have been used very little, at Ally Pally last weekend for £50. It is on test following my obtaining the right type of Profi couplings to fit the dovetail style coupler mounts; this both enables and requires a test run to see how it works with stock.

Short answer, pretty well so far, even passing the acid test of putting a rake of 4 4-wheeled opens through the sharp reverse curves. This defeated the 212, resulting in buffer locking, though to be fair the latter loco is the only properly close coupled loco I own. Sounds like a cue to buy another loco if I ask Me.