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  1. Found this in my bookmarks: it's a list of book titles but they are grouped by country of publication. It's being kept up to date by the look of it. Literatur über Güterwagen - Literature on Wagons
  2. Hi For those people who model German railways Era 3 to the present day there is a very good selection of books that provide details of the majority of standard gauge freight wagons. They include photos and sometimes very good drawings, dimensions and weights, dates of introduction and withdrawal, and the numbering ranges carried. Prominent in this selection is the Güterwagen series largely 'curated' by Stefan Carstens and published by MIBA. In earlier years Eisenbahn Journal used to publish features on individual wagon types going back to the nineteenth century which were pretty comprehensive. Wonderful as these were and are, I seem to have developed a weakness for facts about wagons that are from other European countries outside Germany. And for (currently h0) models of same, ideally from a time period I am in theory modelling, which I then want to renumber. But I don't know what the number ranges were or where to find out more about them, and often I'm not very certain of the accuracy of the models however nice they look. I've found some passing references to this kind of info in forums in other languages, but not a great deal. I have not found many books, and certainly very few with decent drawings. So, might as well make a proper list: can anyone recommend published sources for Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, or places further afield? I admit I don't yet know whether Bulgarian, Greek or Turkish vehicles ran into north west Europe. So my list of countries is probably too short. But I'd welcome anything people know of, online or off, and I hope this might be useful to other people too. I'll try to remember to post the ones I find here, and of course to include the German ones. Though it would be consistent with the topic to include the UK, this would obviously overlap the mass of information both in this section and elsewhere on the forum. But in that connection, I just bought a great book (wagon fanciers only) with photos taken in the main goods yards in Stuttgart and found a photo of a Lowmac in it, and that's started me off again :-) Ben
  3. Too late for a rather gratuitous photo from the railway museum at Vilanova, south of Barcelona? Furthest back is Iberian, then Russian, then (world) standard, then metre, then 600mm.
  4. @Pacific231G Sorry to hear about that! I see from this Jouef Trains site that their model has a long and multi-part history. You will know better than I do what spare parts are available; I have forgotten the name of the French supplier who seems to have a lot of parts for older Jouef models (can't have been AMR 87?) but I did notice that Pierre Dominique seems to have swept up everything from the very back of their storeroom and put it online -- there are items there that must go back a good four decades... I can't speak for what Holger, or someone equally competent, would choose to do but fixing issues with plastic parts, particularly stressed items like bushes, could be more difficult than for metal equivalents. Holger's details are on the AW Lingen web site. I write to him in a gruesome parody of German and he manages to understand my requests ;-)
  5. I thought I would push the wheel question further and sent 140.C.6 to Holger Gräler in Germany. Holger has previously worked wonders with the wheels on my Roco ÖBB Reihe 93, by replacing the tyres and retaining the original wheel centres and rims. The Reihe 93 has plastic wheel centres. The 140.C has cast metal wheels and these have come back looking absolutely super. The carrying wheels and tender wheels are new. I now have no reason not to investigate what can be done to tidy the model up -- for instance, the box under the cab is a Liliput invention that holds the tender drawbar and at least one modeller has found a way to do without it. The electrical connection also needs thought. The space beneath the frames under the cab should be basically clear.
  6. Sorry @wilwahabri, your words made sense but the information was clearly too challenging! Thanks for the photo, and this model is also shown on the Modellbau Wiki page for the BR 410. You can search for "ICE" in the Fleischmann spare parts form, that's what I have just done, and you get a lot of results, Based on that I suggest you try entering "4440" in the search and downloading the service sheet for that product. Then look on the third and fourth pages of the service sheet for the undriven end: it is not clear to me whether this is the same model with production rather than prototype livery, or a different model. In any case, at least one of the bogie frames shown on that sheet is available (at EUR 11.80). Fleischmann seem to have issued lots of variants in sets with different combinations of coaches and also upgraded the model with a DCC socket and separately with a can motor driving both axles (in the driven end).
  7. The service sheet is on the Fleischmann website as a PDF download Have a look for the part and get its number. Then put that into the Fleischmann Spare Parts search. It looks like it's part number 03144601 you are after. If that's the case according to the search it is currently available for EUR 11.80 plus P&P which was EUR 10.00 to the UK last time I used the service. There are others who sell Fleischmann spares; it may be worth a Google search. Hope that helps! Ben
  8. By the way, 'Rennsteig' isn't a place; it's a bit like the Ridgeway in southern England (and I think the name has a lot of similarity); an ancient route that leads across high ground. Bahnhof Rennsteig is sited at the summit, broadly at the point where the railway line crosses this route. The Google Maps view above gives the impression the line runs north west to south east but in fact it runs north east to south west, the station now being the leg of a T (or a flattened Y) and forming a forced reversing point. This reversal is helpful if you are running steam locos on steep gradients and want to be confident that the firebox crown is covered in water both when the trains going up one side and when it is going down the other. Whereas the Ridgeway is open and exposed, the Rennsteig route is thickly forested (here, it's within the Thüringer Wald). I found out on my stroll along the abandoned line to Frauenwald (above) that despite being close to the summit there was practically never a view, This was a big disappointment. Good thing I like looking at pine trees as there were several of those to be seen.
  9. I think this is a great choice of prototype. Look forward to seeing updates! A Rennsteig Shuttle service arriving at Bhf Rennsteig on 27 January 2018. To pick up on earlier comments: the station cafe was open when I visited, so after a route march along the trackbed of the former Kleinbahn to Frauenwald and back, I treated myself to Kaffee und Kuchen. Then back down the hill to Ilmenau in the next Shuttle. Most of the rolling stock pictured by @jonhall above was not present on that date.
  10. @michl080 @jhock Let's get this straight. Is it entirely a coincidence that @jhock found the place you live when searching Google? That's crazy :-) As it happens I saw the BR 50 in the museum at Horb a few years ago -- I did wonder why it was there, surrounded by rolling stock that (mostly) had a close connection with Stuttgart or Baden-Württemburg. Now I know! Ben
  11. The loco Roco chose, 2255, appears in a great dynamic photo of February 1945, crossing the temporary span of a viaduct just east of Aachen that had been blown up by retreating German forces the previous Autumn. 2255 pilots another loco and is considerably cleaner than the second S160. I'd love to have a print of the image which is credited to the US Army Signal Corps. I found it reproduced fairly small in Züge der Alliierten, published by Eisenbahn Kurier-Verlag, 2017. More details of the reworking of the cabside numbers are now on the Model Railway Club blog. I intend to renumber again to a different prototype.
  12. I've started one of these kits. In fact it was a while ago. It seemed to me then that, if assembled without checking and adjusting things, the axles would be parallel with each other (in plan) but not square with the solebars. AKA skew whiff. Thanks for the additional hints in your report, there are clearly other potential issues to watch out for!
  13. I think this video may already have had an airing elsewhere in this forum, but I like it. It's a special (the last I would guess) along the Industriebahn in the Stuttgart suburb of Feuerbach. You can watch the Eisenbahnfreunde rushing about trying to work out where to go next to get a picture before the traffic lights change! There's another useful video showing a 365(?) delivering two two-axle tank wagons that's also on YouTube somewhere. The Feuerbach network has inspired me, and I'm going to base at least one of the buildings on my current FREMO station module on one of the factories it served. The system was pretty substantial in its heyday and includes all sorts of interesting switchbacks etc. Almost all of it ran on roads, and it crossed a dual carriageway and a tram route seemingly just for the fun of doing it all again at the next intersection to come back the other way. I think that the city of Stuttgart got fed up of the additional cost of doing work of any kind on the roads. It is a place with a complex relationship with trains as far as I can tell :-) Ben
  14. @AchimK thanks for the report, it's very helpful to know more about what you get on (at least one of) these CDs. It could be that the originals are not very large, but if they are then organising the reproduction will not have been especially easy.
  15. Nice choice of scale (seriously). Personally I'd recommend EM or P4 gauge but can imagine why you might prefer not. Here's a CD with drawings on Ebay. I've seen these CDs recommended by others but not bought one myself (though tempted by the Prussian T3 and others): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CD-mit-Musterzeichnungen-zum-Nachbau-einer-Schnellzuglok-Baureihe-61/184408191040?hash=item2aef95b040:g:CBUAAOSwYIhWlCFL Ben
  16. Seeing this prompts me to add a mention of a supplier of replacement coach and wagon wheelsets in Germany I have used two or three times: http://www.modellbahn-radsatz.de/h0/radsaetze-h0-rp25/index.php The wheels vary in diameter according to the original model manufacturer's whim, doubtless a lot more than the prototype as 1,000 mm seems to have been a standard (in Germany at least) for 100 years or so. That's a bit bigger than the typical contemporary British wheel (what a surprise) but 10.5 mm is a common diameter in this range which is pretty much right for UK wagons. Pardon my failure to do the sums but I would guess a 1:76 wagon wheel from Gibson is pretty much perfect on a 1:87 carriage? Currently EUR 1.13 an axle as RP25 (watch out as you can buy NEM). I think they are the cheapest I have seen -- but don't forget to add in the postage cost (which was pretty reasonable when I ordered). The wheels are brass with a nickel surface and are chemically blackened. To explain the dimensions, taking as an example http://www.modellbahn-radsatz.de/h0/radsaetze-h0-rp25/fleischmann/index.php: Lkdm (=Laufkreisdurchmesser) tyre diameter - 11mm Achse axle length - 24 mm Oberflächenveredlung surface finish - nickel (I think the spec is absolutely standard across all their wheels) Spurkranzhöhe flange depth - 0.6 mm Wellendurchmesser axle diameter - 2 mm Radscheibenbreite wheel disc width (tyre and flange) - 2.8 mm [the tyre width I measure on a sample as 2mm] Obviously these terms might be useful elsewhere around the internet; happy searching. If you do use this supplier you need to be considerate and put in a reasonable order -- they used to state EUR 25 minimum for PayPal. My first order was less than that and I got a grumpy email ;-) If you order the wheelsets that are isolated on both wheels (beidseitig isoliert) you can pull them off the axles and put them on longer or shorter axles. I didn't realise until recently that Roco sell RP25 replacement wheelsets too. I haven't got any. Ben
  17. Hi For reference see also the recent GRS booklet on the K5 - plenty of photos of the one currentlyat Audingen, Pas de Calais. Disclaimer: GRS member :-) On a similar topic July's Eisenbahn Kurier has an article on some of the captured locos that were taken to the USA including a BR 52 with a condensing tender and 19 001, the 'Dampfmotorlokomotive', essentially a sort of streamlined direct-drive version of a Shay or Sentinel, but the size of the BR 06 and with a top speed of 175 km/h. The article concludes that after playing about with these locos the US military lost interest quickly as dieselisation was well under way in the US. Some good photos including a couple in colour from the early 1950s. Ben
  18. Oh, and the left side too ;-)
  19. Are they are the rings at the top of the cab door handrails? MIssing on 3023 right hand side.
  20. Now that is greatly cheering news!
  21. Time for something in 1:76 scale. This is my frst brass loco kit build, a Judith Edge kit. Started four years ago and still unfinished now. Despite the very slow progress the experience of building it has been valuable and although I wouldn't like to stick my neck out too far there seems now quite a reasonable chance it may even be completed. I am very glad I took Michael Edge's advice at the time I bought the kit to try a relatively straightforward prototype. Thank you! There have been two big challenges so far. The first was 'unsticking' the chassis for free running. That's where a lot of the intervening years went, to be honest; I feared I'd open out the crankpin holes too far and several times put it away to steep while I mulled over what I was doing. I also took it the the club more than once to solicit opinions. It turns out that pickups are difficult. A lot of the issues with running related to those, and I found it difficult to workout what was pickup trouble and what was sticking coupling rods. Running a loco on rollers turns out to be a lot different from running it on track! The second was a lot more recent, last week in fact, and that was curving the edges of the roof. That issue was resolved by fiddling with it during an evening phone call. The payback for this opportunism was that I wasn't paying full attention so it remains to be seen whether I remember what I did next time. I'm showing the side where the roof edges are slightly out of line with the sides of the cab, which is painful to do but so far I haven't found the will to take it off and do it again, because I'm not sure whether it will come out better or worse. So far, carefully dismantling and refixing has proved the way to go but each slight misstep means another evaluation. But following my success with the cab I felt like carrying on and the front and rear 'hoods' have been done over the last few days. These two photos confirm it's far from a perfect piece of work, there's loads more to do and I still have a lot to learn before it's finished. But I think it's worth celebrating the fact that now at least this model does have the outline of the real thing. Incidentally I discovered a very useful gallery on Flickr which will help anyone else wanting to build the model, from ukrail: Hunslet 50T 325hp 0-6-0DH
  22. readingtype

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    I suggest you keep it. It's not going to convert into a big pile of 009 if you sell it and it looks good. What's not to like? You might get the opposite answer if you asked in the 009 forum I guess. In which case, take your pick ;-)
  23. Final final point, despite being a little delicate these couplings were designed for serious use, specifically at FREMO meetings where running longish trains and doing lots of shunting is important. They couple and uncouple brilliantly if the height is correct and don't snag as much as the conventional NEM design.
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