diff --git a/pysegcnn/core/trainer.py b/pysegcnn/core/trainer.py
index 855b76b1559f878e0ea935d1451adc72833ad756..31c615f3156d7832917389c53059ce5f8e8bc315 100644
--- a/pysegcnn/core/trainer.py
+++ b/pysegcnn/core/trainer.py
@@ -253,11 +253,7 @@ class ModelConfig(BaseConfig):
     def init_model(self, ds, state_file):
 
         # write an initialization string to the log file
-        # now = datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now(),
-        #                                  '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
-        # LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
-        # LOGGER.info('{}: Initializing model run. '.format(now) + 35 * '-')
-        # LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
+        LogConfig.init_log('{}: Initializing model run. ')
 
         # case (1): build a new model
         if not self.transfer:
@@ -332,10 +328,10 @@ class ModelConfig(BaseConfig):
             ds.__class__.__name__))
 
         # check whether the current dataset uses the correct spectral bands
-        if new_ds.use_bands != model_state['bands']:
+        if ds.use_bands != model_state['bands']:
             raise ValueError('The pretrained network was trained with '
                              'bands {}, not with bands {}.'
-                             .format(model_state['bands'], new_ds.use_bands))
+                             .format(model_state['bands'], ds.use_bands))
 
         # get the number of convolutional filters
         filters = model_state['params']['filters']
@@ -379,7 +375,7 @@ class StateConfig(BaseConfig):
         # get the band numbers
         bformat = ''.join(band[0] +
                           str(self.ds.sensor.__members__[band].value) for
-                              band in self.ds.use_bands)
+                          band in self.ds.use_bands)
 
         # check which split mode was used
         if self.sc.split_mode == 'date':
@@ -449,9 +445,8 @@ class EvalConfig(BaseConfig):
         self.models_path = self.base_path.joinpath('_graphics')
 
         # write initialization string to log file
-        # LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
-        # LOGGER.info('{}')
-        # LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
+        LogConfig.init_log('{}: ' + 'Evaluating model: {}.'.format(
+            self.state_file.name))
 
 
 @dataclasses.dataclass
@@ -468,6 +463,17 @@ class LogConfig(BaseConfig):
         self.log_file = self.log_path.joinpath(
             self.state_file.name.replace('.pt', '.log'))
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def now():
+        return datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now(),
+                                          '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def init_log(init_str):
+        LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
+        LOGGER.info(init_str.format(LogConfig.now()))
+        LOGGER.info(80 * '-')
+
 
 @dataclasses.dataclass
 class NetworkTrainer(BaseConfig):
@@ -506,6 +512,9 @@ class NetworkTrainer(BaseConfig):
             self.es = EarlyStopping(self.mode, self.max_accuracy, self.delta,
                                     self.patience)
 
+        # log representation
+        LOGGER.info(repr(self))
+
     def train(self):
 
         LOGGER.info(35 * '-' + ' Training ' + 35 * '-')