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The answer to your question, Keith, is 'Yes'. The Gattungsbezirke of the KPEV do not exactly overlap with those of the DRG.

The Prussian State Railways used city names as a 'Gattungszeichen', a type or category label. 'Der Gattungsbezirk' employed the name of the regional headquarters of a Prussian railway division to indicate the type and intended use of a category of freight wagon - from Altona through Breslau, Cöln etc.

I have ordered directly from Peter Horn (peho) a couple of times and found the service very good and the charges OK. http://peho-kkk.de/mshop/index.php/

The additional trailer for the Motordraisine is more or less finished - the paint-job needs finishing, one coupling is still missing - but it can be tested. Are the p-way team happy?What do they think?

And for readers of German, here is the Nürnberg city-guide info on Fleischmann.. https://nuernberginfos.de/traditionsfirmen-aus-nuernberg/fleischmann-modelleisenbahn.htm#fahrt

I think that Fleischmann's location as a company might have had some influence on their choice of wagons. They were based, of course, in Nürnberg in Bavaria until the 2008 take-over by Roco. The former Fleischmann works in inner-city Nürnberg have been demolished and/or converted into apartments. Here is a German-language article... https://gesichterderstadt.wordpress.com/2010/09/10/fleischmann/

The Kühn Rekowagen are very fine models, but then, so are the original BTTB Rekos which were first introduced in the late 1970s. Especially if they are fitted with some form of close-coupling, in my case home-made ones based on N scale Rapido couplings, the BTTB Rekos can still hold their own against present-day products. Here is a comparison shot....

When I got back from my holiday my track-maintenance team (Herr Preiser, Herr Noch and Herr Merten) were complaining that they needed an additional flat-bed trailer for their Motordraisine. So a quick visit to Monk Bar Models got me a further Peco N scale brakevan chassis which was then carefully sawn lengthways down the middle, the coupler pockets and buffers were cut off. The chassis was then widened with poly strip by 3.5mm and glued back together. The flatbed is made up of plank-pattern poly sheet and strips, and I have fitted, as before, 7mm diameter metal wheels and axles by Modmüller. I need to fit couplings still, though - N scale buckeyes. Now a paint job and a load are needed. The wagon runs beautifully!

A difficult question! To my knowledge there are no mainstream manufacturers in Germany which produce N scale goods wagon kits. On the German N scale fans' site 1zu160 there is a somewhat out of date list of small specialist manufacturers... https://www.1zu160.net/scripte/forum/forum_show.php?id=433963

Want a nasty, oily wet mess on the track at the water crane? Then go to your cheapest cosmetic shop and buy some black nail varnish! And clear, too, for puddles!

No progress on layout development of late - we have been away. However, I am pulling in a few operating sessions at the moment!

My good friend Günther who has a very extensive H0 layout uses a mixture of Piko A Gleis, Code 100, and Peco's Code 100 turnouts. Although the fineness maybe missing from the track he is assured that all of his collection - Piko from the 1960s to the 2000s, Fleischmann, Roco, Hornby and Athearn - run without any problems.

I think not. German TT fans are keen to see if Roco will get Kühn's planned developments into actual production.

I am not sure whether this is the correct location for this topic - but David Gilliver's scenes with 1:87 figures might be interpreted as dioramas! David Gilliver is an award-winning Scottish artist who specialises in macro photography and employs Preiser and Noch H0 scale people in his humorous scenes. https://davidgilliver.com/portfolio/little-people/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgpzek8npvo

In answer to the first two questions: - a brakeman's cabin was glazed, it is Piko's (and others') cost-saving and simplification that have made those windows glazing-free! And the brakeman applied the brakes just on that vehicle.

OL mast production!

And we have OL masts at last - but still no wires!

The OL poles are all soldered up from brass tube and wire using a template made from a piece of timber with saw cuts across it. I'll load a photo later.

Masts! At last! Still no wires, though!

Still no overhead line - but one of the electric locos is in action with the tool van!

Not only is the tram terminus almost finished - almost - the tramway and interurban company has at last taken delivery of two small electric locos. Parts supplied by Shapeways, Tomytec, the former E German company HERR (Pantos) and the owner's junk box.

The boss and his team are inspecting the new locos. Are they any good?

For the German speakers among you here is an interesting, very recent interview with a Roco product manager.

Great news! The two metre-gauge electric locos ordered by the VEB Straßen- und Überlandbahn Annaberg-Kirchheim have finally been delivered in a more or less complete condition. Still bits to add, paint to touch up! More photos will follow!

The railway photographer is very excited - a BR 58 AND a narrow-gauge loco in one shot! And then the arrival of the next Personenzug headed by a BR 38. What photos! His girlfriend is not too keen, though!