Sounds right to me. I search sites like railpictures.net and Haribu for pictures and you find an amazing variety.

Choose the country, Austria and Switzerland are down the bottom below all the US states, and pick photos only, 180 per page, from the bottom menus makes searching faster.

http://www.railpictures.net

And for loads of high quality RhB details Rudi’s site is very good.

http://www.haribu.ch

That’s your afternoon gone

29 minutes ago, Mike Beard said:

Somebody at some time pointed me to a document which has trackplans of all the RhB stations together with significant dimensions like loop lengths and track spacings. Does anybody recognise this and could they direct me to it please?

This one?

https://www.gleisplaene-schweiz.ch/gleispläne-privatbahnen/rhb-alle-stationen-a-z-ca-1966/
 

They’ve been copied from the Schweers & Wall book, note many larger stations like Filisur & Bever are now out of date due to the modernisation of the last 15 years. 

Having finished ballasting right through the station area, it was time for some testing and of course .. playtime!

Here's a link to a playlist of short videos to enjoy .. 

Cheers .. Alan

Hi all

I'm after advice on adding the detailing packs to my small collection of Bemo Rhb locos and stock. What type of glue, can parts be glued from the inside (if the holes run through the bodywork, like hand rails) how do you put a small amount of glue in the correct area without making a mess of it. How do you handle and manuover  small parts into position or even pick them up without loosing them.(how do you see them in the first place)  Sorry to ask such basic questions but I would like to add the detailing packs without making a mess of a fairly expensive loco or two. I have a GE 4/4I and a GE 4/4III to do. I did add some brake shoes to a well wagon last week, they were fiddley, lost count how many times I dropped them, and the holes were very tight in the bogie frames, ended up drilling the holes to a slightly bigger size.

PS I'm used to modelling G scale so everything is on a much larger scale

Thank for any advice

Steve.............

I though I'd do this a separate thread rather than burying it in the Santa Maria topic......

While pulling a couple of my locos out of long term to get them prepped for the new layout noticed that I had a couple of details missing (a step on a Ge 4/4 II and the nose headlights on a Krok). Both were purchased 2nd hand some time ago and frankly I may have lost them when handling then. Anyway........

A email direct to Bemo a couple of weeks ago got a v quick response that these parts were available but no details were provided to my request for details on parts costs, postage and methods of payment. As requested I supplied my home address for shipping and everything went quiet until today when a box with a offical Bemo address label arrived with said parts and an invoice for a not unreasonable amount. However payment seems only to be via international bank transfer which the cashier at my local branch informed me would cost me £9.50, which would represent a good proportion of what the parts cost......

I have an email outstanding back to Bemo as to whether there is any alternative way of paying them but it's a lesson learnt about probably not going direct to Bemo in the future. So the question arises to you my fellow Bemo modellers; have you had any experience of sourcing small spare parts (not stuff listed by dealers like wheels, couplers etc) other than going direct to Bemo? Or a difference recent experience going direct?

Cheers

Dan

Steve, you can drill out the hole slightly for those that don't just slide in but just a light twist don't keep going deep as you might hit wires or glazing behind. I found a dab of pva on the bench works really well as you can grab the detail with small pliers or tweezers and dab the end in the pva so there is only a tiny bit on the pipe and slide it in. once it dries it holds it well but also means a frim tug will remove it later if the pipe is damaged. Alternatively once in place you can secure it permanently with a small paintbrush dipped in a liquid plastic glue. As to holding them, yes they do tend to ping off so I have used a white sheet hung up at the sides of the bench so at least ping directions are covered and they are easy to spot!  A really useful box, or similar clear plastic crate, also works well for catching them and letting light in to see but they ricochet more against the plastic than the sheet so some still go off between the knees!

There's a couple of nice video's appeared on YouTube over the last few days, they seem to be a nice coverage of some of the big RhB freight flows circa 2003, includes footage from inside the terminals.

Part 1 covers Valser Water traffic, then the Coop and PTT containers, and finishes up with a little bit on gravel.
 

Afternoon All,

I'm still working through the video footage that I took on an April, 2003 visit to Switzerland and the most recent instalment is a ride over the Oberalppass from Disentis / Mustér to Andermatt.  It's now on YouTube if anyone would like to have a look:

Hope it's of interest.

Uf wiederlüege mitenand! 

Ron.

Alongside the plans for a large (well, large for me) H0 gauge switching layout in my workshop, I've been drawn down a fascinating rabbit hole into railway operations on Prince Edward Island in Canada...

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PEIRailway/permalink/1224538220953152/

This photo on the PEI Facebook group was the final straw, when a casual diversion turned into the resolve to build something, that feeling that many of us know, it eats away at you until it can be satisfied in miniature, brought to life through your eye like a painter bringing a beautiful landscape to life on canvas, the art of creating a well captured cameo is a wonderful process - detailed enough to draw you in yet casual enough to be finished within 12 months, the perfect distraction for the longer term Halifax and South Western project.

The first step was the re-jigging of my workshop - I've shared some of these ideas before, but recently have stalled a little with the realisation that the proposed height of the HSW layout was too high. However, I noticed IKEA did a 3x4 bookshelf, that could be used to replace my existing setup (which can be re-used elsewhere at home) which would allow it to be lowered. However, that would mean a re-location of the Post-y-dulais micro, which has been so successful due to it's easy accessibility based above my workbench and always ready for action. However, I turned around to look out the window and realised that there might be enough room to add a couple of shelves in place of my large mirror, in fact probably 3 or 4 IKEA Lack shelves would fit nicely. These would easily hold Pont-y-dulais and some other materials... hey, there might even be space for the PEI micro...

The Bachmann GE 70t I bought was dug back out and left on my desk as inspiration whilst I delved into PEI history. I've been drawn in particular to the Murray Harbour and Montague subdivisions, specifically in the mid 1970s, these lines saw largely seasonal traffic for the potato harvest, yet maintained an 'as required' service all year round seeing short trains hauled by a pair of 70t due to the light weight rail and relatively poor condition of the trackbed. These lines clung on, despite increasing competition from road transport, local management even invested in ballasting and improvements to allow larger engines to use the lines when the GE 70t were finally retired in the early 1980s - alas to no avail, as CN pulled out of PEI in 1989, about the same time they did the same on the 3'6" gauge Newfoundland lines - as one feels suited the crown corportation as it was preparing for privatisation. A lot more of the history of these fascinating lines can be found on Facebook and the various historical Wikis setup by dedicated rail historians.

So that photo, by Steve Hunter, was inspiration enough, and with help from Chris Mears I focused down on Uigg, and Kinross and the Martin Visser warehouse spur... I felt this scene had real potential, and if I can get the feel of the back scene and colouring right, it will hopefully really 'pop' - as well as providing a distraction it will help me get my eye back into H0 scale scenery, techniques and begin to think about the need (or not) for colouring adjustment in my finishes.

So several sheets of A4 were taped together, to represent approximately 1m x 25cm scenic area, and my solitary Peco Code 83 point (a number 6 right hand, perfect) were pressed into action. My hope was that it could be operated with a Ge 70t and pair of 40ft cars WITHOUT needing the 'cassettes', but longer trains could be handled with those fitted - so allowing adhoc operation as well as more dedicated, say 15 minute sessions - the cassettes will literally be placed on fold down 'tables' at each end of the micro, the holes in the sky may need filling in with plugs, that is hard to know until it's started.

The Busch 'Chevy' pick up from the teenage Canadian layout pulled over on the shoulder to see the Ge70t switching the spur - the angles are wrong here, but I feel like it's got the potential to work, and I can use some of the tricks I've learnt in OO to hide the exits and block viewing angles - I plan on a little ground undulation, which should be easily achieved with a flat baseboard and separate track bed, and the backscene needs to feel like a summers day I think, so bright sky - and some research to determine if a photo back scene can work, or a sky (like Pont-y-dulais) or an artist impression painting. Progress though and enough to focus on for the better... I hope you've enjoyed this trip down the rabbit hole so far, we'll climb out for now, but there will undoubtedly be more soon...

To misquote Jack Shortliner, track plans for North American layouts often bear little relationship to UK/European plans.

This is the place to post your ideas for trackplans, links to interesting trackplans or your drawings for trackplans. It will not be limited by the size of trackplans or whether they are based on Class A railroads, Shortlines, Industrial or anything else that I can't think of right now, like narrow gauge.

The one thing linking them should be North American practice.

Carry on, Pete.