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A while ago, I concluded that the motive power inventory for this Spanish-themed scenario should comprise at least another pair of Series 269 locomotives, including the option of running them in multiple as is, in fact, increasingly common for the fleet of 269s currently operated by Renfe's Mercancías sector. Having outlined the background and specifications for this class earlier, I should like to refer you to this blog posting for these details, as this will really just be a "s
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Having built up a s0lid baseline motive power inventory for this scenario in recent months (though some additions might yet turn out to be, shall we say, desirable ), I recently devoted some time to investigating likely choices for the freight stock which I'd expect to feature most heavily. My impression of traffic patterns on the Pajares Line so far seems to indicate that a fair share of freight traffic there appears to be steel coil services, so I thought that obtaining som
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On Monday, I finally was able to submit to my long-prepared plan for tweaking the Renfe Series 252 electric which I originally presented in this thread.
To refresh your memory: This is what I started with – 252-049 with the "Grandes Líneas" livery, which railfans sometimes refer to as the "Danone" livery, and billboard "Arco" lettering on the body sides...
…and this should highlight those items I am planning to address:
But, in fact, I alre
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Our topic for this article shall be a locomotive which – while having been withdrawn from revenue service in reality – appealed to me sufficiently to claim modeller's freedom in order to justify procurement, and which also is, once again, illustrative of the multitude of influences Renfe embraced during its history.
Aiming to speed up replacing the older types of electric locomotives in service at the time and to obtain high-powered locomotives especially for heavy passeng
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The locomotive we are going to look at today will probably appear strikingly familiar to anyone following the Japanese railway scene, highlighting the multitude of influences the Spanish railways took on in the post-1945 era.
As indicated previously, the motive power inventory of Renfe in the post-war period was characterised by various procurements from foreign locomotive builders due to an initial lack of independent development capacities for designs matching the establis
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Our subject today will be another of those locomotives which Renfe obtained from Japan, at a time when Spain as a whole was still faced with varying levels of political reservations due to the authoritarian Franco regime.
First procured in 1973 and indeed produced until 1985, well after democratic rule had been restored to the country, the Series 269 electric locomotives have been one of the most versatile types to have been procured by Renfe, and put to use for various ty
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Now, own up: Who had dirty thoughts on their mind when you clicked to browse here?
With some idle time available, I remembered how I wanted to finish and post this small article on another piece of motive power for my Spanish section which had found its way to me several weeks ago. So, let's have a look at a Series 316 diesel-electric locomotive as operated by PW and logistics operator Azvi, a company based at Seville.
This locomotive is, to my mind, an excellent exampl
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As connoisseurs of the Continental railway scene will long be aware of, there's much truth in the statement that even though there has been a lot of standardisation going on with the advent of "one size fits all" locomotive platforms such as the Bombardier TRAXX, Siemens Eurosprinter and its evolution called Vectron, as well as the Alstom PRIMA, there is, in fact, a lot more variety to even these highly standardised types than meets the eye. I but will concede that for part of
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I'm not sure how many of you might have looked into Spanish H0 models in the past, but if you did, you might have noticed two things.
Firstly, that – at least in my interpretation – there is a solid range of more or less contemporary stock by various producers such as Electrotren (now part of the Hornby universe), Roco, Ibertren and Mabar. However, further discrimination is required between motive power and freight stock on one hand, and really contemporary passenger stock
