Irishswissernie Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Its the summer holidays, the wife's on holiday for the next 6 weeks so no chance of doing any modelling! However I can get away with uploading to Flickr! Tonights offering is a collection covering Cossonay on the route from Lausanne to Yverdon, the station also sees TGV's en route to Paris via Vallorbe. This is or was one of my favourite locations, especially in the Beet season. The goods yard was busy enough with grain traffic to the large mill complex outside the Beet season and things could get quite hectic when Beet loading was in full swing as well. Sadly the Goods shed has been flattened to extend the Car Park. Click on the link below and then on the relative set. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ Next in line is probably Glovelier so we will have a little bit of metre gauge to complement the SBB. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Glovelier now added, nice simple ng track plan! same link https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ I will up-date this topic in future rather than doing separate Post Titles. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium DIW Posted July 22, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2014 Thanks for the pictures of Glovelier - it is on the 'brief-glimpse-while-passing-through' list this year, along with Tanvannes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 Sneaked another collection on! RhB Reichenau-Tamins - 178 images. Link as usual at https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ Unlike the rest of my negative/slide/digital image collection, the 13,000 odd Swiss ones are actually in some semblance of order. I've managed some 24 Trips so far but from 1999 have concentrated on Video (over 200 hours). On my early visits I usually stayed for a while at the Schloss in Reichenau, later on exclusively at the Hotel Terminus in Brugg. The Owner is an enthusiast as was his father and grandfather. The hotel attic contains an O scale and Gauge 1 scale layout some 60 feet by 80 feet! Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Uploaded this morning RhB Samedan. Usual link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted July 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2014 Thanks Ernie, there's some superb pictures there and I've noted your site on the RhB forum and that'll keep them happy for hours Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 25, 2014 Author Share Posted July 25, 2014 Thanks Ernie, there's some superb pictures there and I've noted your site on the RhB forum and that'll keep them happy for hours Thanks for this, next upload should be Biasca; not metre gauge although there are a couple of metre gauge remnants in the images. Plenty more RhB to go at though. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted July 25, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 25, 2014 You're rapidly bringing the RhB forum to a standstill as they're drooling over those photos They all say thanks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Biasca is now uploaded; link https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ To get to the top of the waterfall above the station you have to go north and follow a road around the top end of the head shunt and then up the hill. Its well worth it though, the station is in shadow until late in the morning. I also discovered some industrial narrow gauge, either 60cm or 75cm rails when walking to the loco sheds. Biasca thus at one time had 3 different gauges around the station area. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Did you ever get to the spirals at Giornico, just N of Biasca? Looks fascinating from the train, but not sure if it's really good for photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 RhB Ilanz is now on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ I wrote an article 'An Hour at Ilanz' when I had a regular column in the early issues of Narrow Gauge World. This appeared in Issue 11 Feb/Mar 2001. Cossonay is now in the Swiss Collection after a brief interlude in the Southern Collection! Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Did you ever get to the spirals at Giornico, just N of Biasca? Looks fascinating from the train, but not sure if it's really good for photos. I did these spirals in June 2004; caught the train to Faido and then the bus to I think Biaschina by the middle level. The angles were very tight with much vegetation and I only took video. I think with a bit more planning, more walking and much less heat! then there are certainly some good spots. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 ANDERMATT on the FO or should I say MGB now added https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ I might get some more locations sorted in the next couple of days but I am off to the Isle of man on Wednesday for the Transport Gala and I really should start getting organised! Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 CHUR in April/May 1998 now uploaded at usual link https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ I have more but this folder has some 320 images just from April/May 98. I seem to remember I had this idea at the time to fill my 20 feet square loft with a layout based on Chur; luckily sanity returned and work never started. It was fortuitous in a way in that CHur has since seen much re-development and the bland concrete monstrosity of today, minus signal boxes, goods shed , wagon works and the little RhB freight yard doesn't have the charisma/character of the old station. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 The existing collection on the RhB Rhine Valley has now been extended and includes 85 new images with coverage of Disentis RhB and FO mainly before re-building https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ Ilanz has its own album. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I was quite surprised to find that the RhB has allowed Google to put its entire system on Street View, so you can now "travel" over it!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 8, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2014 They did it some time back on the famous bits and advertised it so I guess they see it as good marketing to get people on trains Good modelling reference too as you can see signals etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 ....Good modelling reference too as you can see signals etc Has RhB / Swiss "System L" signalling changed slightly? I notice the red aspect on the RhB heads seems to have moved from position "2" on the 4/5-aspect head to position "3". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 8, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 8, 2014 I know they are introducing a version of speed signalling but I don't have any details. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 Now added to Flickr. The old narrow gauge station at BRIG FO/BVZ prior to and during re-building; a much more interesting layout in the old days! Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157627052282903/ Then click on the relative set. Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 More folders added including Eglisau and Muttenz/ Birsfelden Hafen freight yards. If you want to model something different and don't have much space , have a look at this dockside scene: https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/15691861826/ This is the usual link to the Swiss Collection, then click on one of the albums. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irishswissernie Posted May 7, 2015 Author Share Posted May 7, 2015 I've been adding folders over the past months; latest are Brugg AG and Kerzers. Kerzers was one of my favourite locations, although its suffered somewhat from modernisation and the take over of most services by the BLS. Back in 1988 one could see Re4/4' on the SBB line and also on the 3 coach Lutetia/Lemano service between Bern & Paris on the BN route. Later on the 'Grey Mouse' sets provided the link to the TGV's at Portarlier. Nowadays (or at least in 2009 on my last visit) TGV's run through to Bern looking somewhat out of place on a single track secondary line. https://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/collections/72157626910288600/ is the link to the Swiss collection Ernie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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