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  1. In other news, Alternate view - it's cheaper to provision having outside contractors around to pick stuff up quickly with no independant investigation needed or wanted than it is to resource your railway so that you don't have multi train collisions that drop loco's in the river in the first place....
  2. There's also another vid from the same producer, apparently the remaining non-Bernina EW1 cars also go in December, with the exception of the Barenland cars and a couple headed for the heritage fleet. (They also did a great vid on the retirement of 241)
  3. I'd have thought difficult to kitbash to anything that didn't originally start out as a GP7/9/18/20 as the battery boxes/cab sub-bases are part of the weight casting on the Atlas model so you are rather stuck with them unless you want it to get very involved! If you can't get a spare Atlas shell, the Proto ones are made of lots of different subcomponents, so you should be able to split one of those down to just a hoods and cab with no walkway or battery boxes?
  4. Huge number of sets end up stabled overnight outside the city though, so cycling loco's off the sets that had overnighted outside the city at a faster rate than the coaching stock gets cycled for maintenance makes some sense: BNSF/Metra have a similarly huge diesel shop and car yard complex south of CUS just opposite Amtrak's And the Rock Island route has what looks to be a 4th diesel shop, a bit further out between 47th and 51st st!
  5. If you want a working theory, we know the loco servicing (at least heavier servicing) happens in separate places to the whole train set (including loco) stabling - the servicing is near the core of the network, but lots of the trains are often stabled nearer the outer ends of the multiple lines as it saves empty movements. So given that, swapping at least some loco's out for servicing and replacing them with fresh ones when they are in the city in the quieter middle part of the day makes some sense. (Even if it looks really weird! 😁) (The cynic in me says also likely a big degree of "if it was good enough for <insert previous railroad> then we shouldn't change anything....")
  6. I'm currently playing "guess which entrance the next train comes in from" whilst watching the morning rush - that's a cool camera, wasn't aware of Steel Highway before yesterday but it looks like they have quite a few really cool locations.
  7. Thanks Paul, so that adds a few more numbers to the yellow dropside variants I had. It also adds the similar green painted wheelset carrier dropsides 9377 and 9378 https://rhbstations.co.za/goods-wagons/service-wagons/xk-9377/ Movable platform module carrier 93001 Module carrier 93114 (can't find an image of it with that ID, but it was once 91601 as pictured here: http://www.beretta-modelle.ch/gleisbaumaschinen/html/body_rhb_containerwagen_bd.html Tunnel fan module carrier 93115 https://rhbstations.co.za/goods-wagons/service-wagons/xk-93115/ Looks like those last 3 would be very easy conversions as it looks like they were done after they had been converted to container wagons. 94001 (a previous identity of 9354 which I pictured) https://rhbstations.co.za/goods-wagons/service-wagons/xk-94001/ I think they may have once been van chassis oddly enough as some of the private owner vans are on it - though i'm not convinced this is useful info from a kitbashing point of view! 😉 I'd guess the chunkier "modern" underframe was more useful as a base for conversions (particularly for things like dropsides where there's no other strength) than the older straight frameones which might be why surviving vans they still own seem to be from older batches?
  8. It's another day 🙂 The engineers fleet has a bit of a minefield of tiny batches of odd wagons, so this might be messy, and you should definitely regard it as incomplete: So I think the fishbelly chassis is a match for the yellow semi-dropside opens 9333-9336 9345, 9348 (different variants on flats with handrails which look to be support for wiring trains) Dropsides 9361-9367, 9375 Also Private Owner P10173 (nice verandah!) - support for the Vanomag Kirow attached (looks like this was one of the above dropsides once) Also some (but not all) the Uc cement tanks, based on these: http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ch/narrow_gauge/RhB/car/freight/U/pix.html Looks like Holcim liveried 8086, 8090, 8095, plus Rhb liveried 8085 are possibilities? There's various others which are about the right size but don't have that fishbelly too, depending on how important you think that feature is, some of the crew cabins look about right for length...
  9. Ref the Lb wagons, i've some shots here, (that older one in the recycling centre in Davos with a skip load might just have had the skip dumped on it rather than travelling - it didn't appear to move all week!) There's some non-Coop refrigerated containers (Volg and CCC) in the mix too if you want some idea's for variations for those. https://ukrailwaypics.smugmug.com/Non-UKrails/Switzerland/Overseas-Rails-Rhätische-Bahn/RHB-Freight-and-Engineering-Wagons-and-Plant/RHB-Freight-and-Engineering-Wagons-and-Plant/7803-7881-Lb-2-axle-intermodal-flat/ I think as Paul says their fishbelly style chassis will be a match for some other things too (gut feeling is they might match one of the dropside opens, and maybe some of the cement wagons?) but will have a dig another day.
  10. Bit bizarre that, could end up with the odd situation of anyone being able to use the GEX like they can with the BEX! Just a bit of expanding on my thoughts - back in 2019 pre-Covid every other Albula diagram was worked with Allegra's, so in that fairly stable state of operating (pre covid, pre Capricorn,) they had effectively three "extra" (IE very competent, but plainly not what they were ordered for!) Allegra available every day, logically you can surmise they were extras purchased to cover retirement of the last three pair of Bernina railcars when that time came, as building a small batch of 3 a decade later than the rest wasn't likely to be viable. At that time from memory they were running both a Landquart-Davos-Tirano BEX and a Chur-Tirano BEX, and the former hasn't resumed - so far at least, so that accounts for only two of the three Albula ones needing to move across now I guess. The juggling diagrams to free up resource is really fun to watch :)
  11. These are something I was massively impressed with, in a "why don't we do this?" kind of way.
  12. Thanks, that's the underlying change i'd not spotted - presume that's as from the December timetable change? Not at all surprised at that being the cascade, but i'm a little surprised they've gone through with it at this moment before being up to full strength on the GE4/4III 🙂
  13. The Allegra hauled ones seem to be the standard stand-ins if you know what I mean, not seen a GE4/4ii show up for ages on one tho, nice to see! Other news, from the webcams it looks a bit like the 4 car Allegra's are back to their old Chur area commuter diagrams again after doing Scuol-Pontresina's for a bit?
  14. GE4/4ii and hauled stock/push pull trailer set on one of the Chur-St Moritz services today - different! Just passed Filisur heading south. https://www.schmalspurbahn.ch/filisur/webcam/m221212140202263
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