readingtype

Too late for a rather gratuitous photo from the railway museum at Vilanova, south of Barcelona? Furthest back is Iberian, then Russian, then (world) standard, then metre, then 600mm.

Sorry @wilwahabri, your words made sense but the information was clearly too challenging! Thanks for the photo, and this model is also shown on the Modellbau Wiki page for the BR 410.

You can search for "ICE" in the Fleischmann spare parts form, that's what I have just done, and you get a lot of results, Based on that I suggest you try entering "4440" in the search and downloading the service sheet for that product.  Then look on the third and fourth pages of the service sheet for the undriven end: it is not clear to me whether this is the same model with production rather than prototype livery, or a different model. In any case, at least one of the bogie frames shown on that sheet is available (at EUR 11.80).

Fleischmann seem to have issued lots of variants in sets with different combinations of coaches and also upgraded the model with a DCC socket and separately with a can motor driving both axles (in the driven end).

The service sheet is on the Fleischmann website as a PDF download

Have a look for the part and get its number. Then put that into the Fleischmann Spare Parts search.

It looks like it's part number 03144601 you are after. If that's the case according to the search it is currently available for EUR 11.80 plus P&P which was EUR 10.00 to the UK last time I used the service. There are others who sell Fleischmann spares; it may be worth a Google search.

Hope that helps!

Ben

By the way, 'Rennsteig' isn't a place; it's a bit like the Ridgeway in southern England (and I think the name has a lot of similarity); an ancient route that leads across high ground. Bahnhof Rennsteig is sited at the summit, broadly at the point where the railway line crosses this route. The Google Maps view above gives the impression the line runs north west to south east but in fact it runs north east to south west, the station now being the leg of a T (or a flattened Y) and forming a forced reversing point. This reversal is helpful if you are running steam locos on steep gradients and want to be confident that the firebox crown is covered in water both when the trains going up one side and when it is going down the other.

Whereas the Ridgeway is open and exposed, the Rennsteig route is thickly forested (here, it's within the Thüringer Wald). I found out on my stroll along the abandoned line to Frauenwald (above) that despite being close to the summit there was practically never a view, This was a big disappointment. Good thing I like looking at pine trees as there were several of those to be seen.

I think this is a great choice of prototype. Look forward to seeing updates!

A Rennsteig Shuttle service arriving at Bhf Rennsteig on 27 January 2018.

To pick up  on earlier comments: the station cafe was open when I visited, so after a route march along the trackbed of the former Kleinbahn to Frauenwald and back, I treated myself to Kaffee und Kuchen. Then back down the hill to Ilmenau in the next Shuttle.

Most of the rolling stock pictured by @jonhall above was not present on that date.

On 11/09/2020 at 08:58, michl080 said:

I am living in this village.

@michl080 @jhock Let's get this straight. Is it entirely a coincidence that @jhock found the place you live when searching Google? That's crazy :-)

As it happens I saw the BR 50 in the museum at Horb a few years ago -- I did wonder why it was there, surrounded by rolling stock that (mostly) had a close connection with Stuttgart or Baden-Württemburg. Now I know!

Ben

I think this video may already have had an airing elsewhere in this forum, but I like it. It's a special (the last I would guess) along the Industriebahn in the Stuttgart suburb of Feuerbach. You can watch the Eisenbahnfreunde rushing about trying to work out where to go next to get a picture before the traffic lights change! There's another useful video showing a 365(?) delivering two two-axle tank wagons that's also on YouTube somewhere.

The Feuerbach network has inspired me, and I'm going to base at least one of the buildings on my current FREMO station module on one of the factories it served. The system was pretty substantial in its heyday and includes all sorts of interesting switchbacks etc. Almost all of it ran on roads, and it crossed a dual carriageway and a tram route seemingly just for the fun of doing it all again at the  next intersection to come back the other way. I think that the city of Stuttgart got fed up of the additional cost of doing work of any kind on the roads. It is a place with a complex relationship with trains as far as I can tell :-)

Ben

@AchimK thanks for the report, it's very helpful to know more about what you get on (at least one of) these CDs. It could be that the originals are not very large, but if they are then organising the reproduction will not have been especially easy.

Nice choice of scale (seriously). Personally I'd recommend EM or P4 gauge but can imagine why you might prefer not.

Here's a CD with drawings on Ebay. I've seen these CDs recommended by others but not bought one myself (though tempted by the Prussian T3 and others): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CD-mit-Musterzeichnungen-zum-Nachbau-einer-Schnellzuglok-Baureihe-61/184408191040?hash=item2aef95b040:g:CBUAAOSwYIhWlCFL

Ben

On 30/05/2020 at 07:43, 47137 said:

I re-wheeled my Fleischmann Warship and all my Lima models some years ago; this leaves me finding only three models with their wheel flanges touching the rail fixings:

 

All three have flanges about 0.057 inches deep, and all are ok on Peco Code 75.

• The Liliput ballast tamper is a pain, I expect better on a present-day model.
• The Fleischmann coaches can be rewheeled - they are also  a pain but only because I have eight of them, so 64 wheelsets to deal with.
• The Trix NS6400 isn't British outline but it represents engines used on the Channel Tunnel rail link. Somehow, being Trix, it doesn't surprise me.

All of these run on the Peco code 70, but they make a funny noise proportional to speed and the sleeper pitch.

Seeing this prompts me to add a mention of a supplier of replacement coach and wagon wheelsets in Germany I have used two or three times:

http://www.modellbahn-radsatz.de/h0/radsaetze-h0-rp25/index.php

The wheels vary in diameter according to the original model manufacturer's whim, doubtless a lot more than the prototype as 1,000 mm seems to have been a standard (in Germany at least) for 100 years or so. That's a bit bigger than the typical contemporary British wheel (what a surprise) but 10.5 mm is a common diameter in this range which is pretty much right for UK wagons. Pardon my failure to do the sums but I would guess a 1:76 wagon wheel from Gibson is pretty much perfect on a 1:87 carriage?

Currently EUR 1.13 an axle as RP25 (watch out as you can buy NEM). I think they are the cheapest I have seen -- but don't forget to add in the postage cost (which was pretty reasonable when I ordered). The wheels are brass with a nickel surface and are chemically blackened. To explain the dimensions, taking as an example http://www.modellbahn-radsatz.de/h0/radsaetze-h0-rp25/fleischmann/index.php:

Quote

RP25 für Fleischmann Lkdm 11,0mm - Achse 24,0mm Fleischmann (2-achsige Wagen) Oberflächenveredlung: Nickel Spurkranzhöhe aller Radsätze beträgt 0,6 mm Wellendurchmesser: 2,0 mm Radscheibenbreite: 2,8 mm

Lkdm (=Laufkreisdurchmesser) tyre diameter - 11mm

Achse axle length - 24 mm

Oberflächenveredlung surface finish - nickel (I think the spec is absolutely standard across all their wheels)

Spurkranzhöhe flange depth - 0.6 mm

Wellendurchmesser axle diameter  - 2 mm

Radscheibenbreite wheel disc width (tyre and flange) - 2.8 mm [the tyre width I measure on a sample as 2mm]

Obviously these terms might be useful elsewhere around the internet; happy searching. If you do use this supplier you need to be considerate and put in a reasonable order -- they used to state EUR 25 minimum for PayPal. My first order was less than that and I got a grumpy email ;-)

If you order the wheelsets that are isolated on both wheels (beidseitig isoliert) you can pull them off the axles and put them on longer or shorter axles.

I didn't realise until recently that Roco sell RP25 replacement wheelsets too. I haven't got any.

Ben

Hi

For reference see also the recent GRS booklet on the K5 - plenty of photos of the one currentlyat Audingen, Pas de Calais.

Disclaimer: GRS member :-)

On a similar topic July's Eisenbahn Kurier has an article on some of the captured locos that were taken to the USA including a BR 52 with a condensing tender and 19 001, the 'Dampfmotorlokomotive', essentially a sort of streamlined direct-drive version of a Shay or Sentinel, but the size of the BR 06 and with a top speed of 175 km/h. The article concludes that after playing about with these locos the US military lost interest quickly as dieselisation was well under way in the US. Some good photos including a couple in colour from the early 1950s.

Ben

Just now, readingtype said:

Are they are the rings at the top of the cab door handrails? MIssing on 3023 right hand side.

Oh, and the left side too ;-)

Are they are the rings at the top of the cab door handrails? MIssing on 3023 right hand side.

I suggest you keep it. It's not going to convert into a big pile of 009 if you sell it and it looks good. What's not to like?

You might get the opposite answer if you asked in the 009 forum I guess. In which case, take your pick ;-)

On 17/05/2020 at 10:40, Andy Kirkham said:

An image that I feel exactly portray the look of the DDR "Zum Kartoffellagerhaus" (To The Potato Warehouse)

 

Thanks for sharing that,  it's quite a picture. Not sure I could handle having it on the wall at home though. Apart from the overwhelming twilight beige tone that gives a lot of the overt atmosphere (which I love to see in a model, more DDR layouts please), there are a lot of different, contraditory, and more or less sinister layers to it. Trains are (generally) easier, though I don't actually have any of those on the wall either. For shame! :-)

5 hours ago, adecoaches26point4 said:

Please look at https://www.conrad.de/de/o/h0-signale-1607100.html

They have kits without drives, have found them very useful.

Look for Hauptsignal Bausatz DB, very reasonable pricing.

 

 

Was just about to mention Conrad. See also English version of their site and don't be put off by the machine translations :-)

I bought the two-arm signal kit (largely out of curiosity) and it has the 'schmalmast' -- a thin mast made of two upright girders with fillets welded between them -- rather than the conventional lattice construction. This was used in locations where clearance was tight, but (according to the GRS German Signalling Guide if I recall correctly) it spread to other locations too -- as so often what got used was what was available. The kit looks good to me; clean mouldings, super-fiddly LEDs if you want to illuminate it. Had it for ages and I haven't finished building it yet!

Ben

On 20/04/2020 at 18:17, Allegheny1600 said:

There must be something along those lines but none of us knows the language to a sufficient degree to know for sure, "Oberhaupt" or simply "Haupt" perhaps?

I had a look in a reputable dictionary. It offers das Kopfende and das Oberes Ende.

Would that reflect the 'Head' in the English name? If it's actually a place where the ground sticks up then maybe you want something with Berg in it...

Hi Les

You could start here: https://www.modellbahndecals.de/Logos/DB/DB-alt/

On that page you can choose the DB 'Keks' (biscuit) logo in various different colours (see the RAL numbers in the listings).

They are all waterslide transfers.

If you need to ask any questions, you can write in English and Herr Nothaft will I think be well able to reply.

Ben

The answer might depend on whether your priority is appearance, running, robustness or ease of maintenance.

I can report that the Brawa one is, in line with their approach to modelmaking, quite delicate; you need to take time and care to dismantle it. I don't have experience of Roco's model, but it's probably more robust.

Ben

I've summarised what I have been doing to see if the OR wheels can be taken out to EM. I stuck the report on my RM Web blog. Track tests pending.

On 10/12/2019 at 07:49, Michael Edge said:

Have a search for this book:

Compound Locomotives by J.T. van Riemsdijk

ISBN 0-906899-61-3

Lots of photos and drawings of all sorts of compound locos in there.

Incidentally a fascinating read, highly recommended if you enjoy reading about historical engineering development, as well as about steam locos.

As I suspected, I'm getting rather jealous of all this derring-do etc. Great stories, thanks to all :-)

On 09/11/2019 at 15:32, Ian Morgan said:

There was a lot of pomp and ceremony at the two border crossings (see photo), but we could not leave our seats on the train except when called to the dining car. 

Sorry, questions, please forgive me: Dare I ask what was in the briefcase? Is it a diplomatic bag or the key to the dining car? Does 'OC Train' decode as 'Officer Commanding Train' and did they travel with the DR train crew in the Ludmilla?

And finally: what need was there to move a trainload each of French, American, and British personnel each day -- did these trains run empty most of the time? Was it just to prove the action was possible, like some kind of international parliamentary train?

Cheers

Ben

Thanks for all these recollections. I guess the vast majority of foreign visitors only got to see Berlin, and that train travel wasn't a feature. I believe that 'gricing' in East Germany was also popular with Brits though, what with all those steam engines about the place. I think that focused on the area around Saalfeld, a very long way from Berlin of course and with entirely different geography. Did anyone go there, and were they too carefully watched? Photography was presumably banned as the railway had such strategic importance.

The Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989. Over in Germany they are celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of this event, obviously especially in Berlin, eg https://www.berlin.de/kultur-und-tickets/tipps/30-jahre-mauerfall/

I remember how exciting it was even to a 12-year-old, and even from a long way away. I wondered if anyone on this forum had any recollections of the time, or indeed those years just after, the exciting new dawn?

The operation of trains across the German-German border was a fascinating exercise too which I am not sure I will ever be able to understand. There must be some folk with interesting photos to share.

Here's a detail of an Ade Steuerwagen for comparison of those eyes. You can also see the way Ade modelled the original seats and the luggage racks.