Durener Eisenbahn Diorama

[Dunalastair]

The Durener Eisenbahn was a metre gauge tramway in the Ruhr Rur in Germany which used transporter wagons to move main line wagons to various industrial operations in the city of Duren. Two electric locomotives provided the motive power.

 

https://eisenbahnstiftung.de/bildergalerie/Privatbahnen?search=&br=&page=2 (many more images of the DEAG here)

 

I have been working on a simple partly 3D printed diorama to represent this interesting operation, the exceptions being the Chinese trees, the German van, an HO product from Piko, bought on ebay, and the British occupation RAF truck, a Base Toys model, slightly overscale at 4mm for this 3.5mm scale diorama. The northlight factory unit is a resin casting reused from an earlier layout.

 

The Durener Metallwerke was indeed one of the companies served by the tramway.

 

 

Edit : Corrected 'Ruhr' to 'Rur'.

Edited August 14, 2023 by Dunalastair

[Tsengpo]

Interesting Diorama. On the photo I like the " Tretroller " and the very shortbased loco. The river you mention is the Rur and not the Ruhr of the Ruhrgebiet.

Hermann

[Dunalastair]

Thankyou - I was showing my ignorance of German geography. 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rur