Roadrails

So I started a thread on the Kreka System in Bosnia Taking coal from several mines in beautiful wooded steep valleys to a power station , also powering steel and a coke plant and cement works .Modern image LEDs light up the Kriegsloks, and the Kennedy EMD G16 are pretty old now. A fascinating Bosnian gauge line with hydraulic locos, and occassional steam, and a USA tank shunting when the aging 0-6-0DH is OOU Recently seen a V100, and hydraulics on the NG, 7 types of steam loco. Quite something. .

I saw a Kriego from the road to the airport in the mine the day after, assume it stands there out of steam quite a lot. The USA and narrow is every 11 days or so from a distance if you are lucky at Banovici, so if you have time... the other 2 mines are hard to get anywhere near. There is security and permits, said to no longer be given to individuals. Photos are permitted. It may be if you go on the right day but they are trying to make all official with payments and EU conditions. They won't go on the big railway unless a charter. It was very hard work, 5.30am starts and serious photters, but I managed to get a lot out of it. Rather like The Train film of 1964 which has a USA tank crossed with The Lady Vanishes which has an OBB 2-10-0.

Good shot the green 732 which would be the class 14 like one I'd aim for Paul. Look forward to the article. I know the NG is a bit semi preserved but that 83 boiler was being lit to replave the Skoda mini shunter! Preservation just can't recreate that kind of environment. A 3D printed 7mm gauge Kriegslok boiler is on its was 1:43.5, so habits of scale here!

Slap on some blue paint large logo 48004 SPARROWHAWK whats not to like>?

https://mehbu-lasertechnik.de/product/lasercut-zeche-zechentor/ Germany has the Ruhrkohle gates which are very similar designto the Bosnia/ex Yugo hammers- not sure who built what- read the Donbas and from there Russia's mines built by Welshmen, and one wonders if these or Germans built what or if all Welsh and Cornish miners began- not my area. Also the signal cabin round levers ..

He is 33-248 at the same location, there is a barrier crossing leftwards, I guess this is Modern Image Bosnia?!?

Kennedy passes Bistarac Station- note the Austrian type style of the stations, other thsn the containers! As someone is doing the container this may be for me as found a kit to be adapted...its a first bash for me so the fear of it all going a bit Hornby is very real It is 316 which seemed to follow us about a bit.

So my theoretical shelf takes elements of one end of Bos Posjana, and the other (30Foot) container station with full gabled roof, and the loading point at Donja Visca. This is one stop from Banovici, but not 12 roads wide. I have added a signal cabin and signals for the run out from Lukavac, and the engine shed from Banovici. The NG doesnt show all points but is a much higher shelf, in scenic woods over the bridge(which is a road. Its a shunters puzzle and really too short at 13 foot but has a run off each end. The NG has a station, watering point and coal point, and the coal is dropped into standard gauge...

Donosnica, with its cute little Swiss cottage container above pictured, is a changever point for onward traffic to the other half of Bosnia;s Railway inthe the Serbian part. This seems simple but there is a wagon works, signal cabin and signals to the right towards Bosnian Lukavac. This is probably all I have space for and be a good first try in the big gauge. The 33 dwafs the station

So Bos Poljana has a very interesting layout- big for a plank but in HO. Passengers stopped but a few shortsighted years ago(closure notice in situ) The power station is upper left, this is a triangle with a road overbridge, varying empties and full coal trucks are dropped off as the Kennedies now rotate to the varying mines and the Yorkshire style power station. The station looks very Austrian,#

The Duro Dakovic Seriies 0-6-0DH standard gauge, still active today in the standard gauge switcher, but has worked everything over the years.

And this is the little wee ex container station, perfect for a larger gauge ....

THe local built USA shunts wagons atound laste week

Sadly the Skapa modell seems defunct. Anyone else a different link or email?

In fact this is the sunset of steam, we'er it last 1 year maybe 3. Taken other day, my pic!

It was Farrail but they day after I spotted a 33 at the mine on the way home!

There is a bit of dual gauge round the engine shed.

Kennedy basic dimensions all I can find These operate most of the massive coal trains, many moves a day rather like 56s around Knottingley

Can't find much on the 55s als0 one steamable at Banovici. 5 may have been built by "BP in 1947 " Can only think Beyer Peacock> Works 5596/47? But the Banovico one is definitely a Skoda

Very like an rtr in HOe plinthed Slovenia

Two kinds of diesels were in action, the large is a B-B hydraulic class 740. Some of these had boilers, but usually a more reliable source of steam heat was a steam loco- wish we'd thought of that.

Tito Banovići Coal Mine. So I never knew it was named after Tito All the Class 25s narrow gauge came here, details are below: It is a locomotive with the following characteristics (data from LO49 from 1949): 1. Similar to the method of steam action 2. Number of cylinders 2 3. Type of steam saturated 4. Rolling circle diameter 850 mm 5. Locomotive weight: - Empty 20.5 t - In service 27.5 t - Atheziona 25.5 t 6. Distance between the end axles 7,900 mm 7. Hensinger-Walscanert rudder system 8. Steam brake which was converted to a compressed air brake in 1983 with - Kočnik Božić - Erlikon distributor 9. The boiler has the following characteristics: - Maximum permissible pressure 14 atm - Heating surface 14.81 m2 - Grill surface 1.22 m2 - Firebox dimensions 1.259x1x1.09 - Dimensions of water heating pipes Ø49.5/Ø44.5x2850, there are 133 pipes in the boiler - The type designation is 0-3-0 - The track width is 760 mm - The maximum permitted speed is 30 km/h - There is no speedometer - Two-stage air pump