While my travels to Europe were last in the 70's, my brother Randy did a winter Plandampf in 1994, and did the Harz and Cranzahl lines in 1990, right after the iron curtain came down. Even has some no-man's land border shots. He got some simultaneous departures on the Harz Line.
We did two videos called "German Narrow Gauge",
and "German Standard Gauge".
For what some of the US excursions cost today, one could just about fly to Germany or England and get a real variety of steam offerings.
Greg Scholl