Gordonwis

Interesting manoeuvre to witness. And very useful for modelling as it proves once and for all that my N gauge Pirata Tm232 is vastly over scale! (I always knew it was in truth but the chance to see a 232 with a Bt is a great help!

The Re6/6 with the poseable (ie plastic) pantographs are 'Kato', not 'Hobbytrain'. There is a subtle difference between the two brands.

621 - 633 (1984-5) are 10 years younger than 611 - 620 (1973), so its the older batch that is most at risk . Four of the 1973 batch have already been stopped (a precursor to scrapping), but 611 will not be stopped because the green livery is not accurate on the later locos as they were delivered in red livery.

Yes I was referring to the actual physical repaint not the concept of preserving stuff in green - the concept was known as early as October 2021 .

If I was needing to achieve the same thing, I would probably reach for my age old stock of scalelink metal N scale fencing. It is still available: https://www.scalelinkfretcetera.co.uk/product/snf024/ .

Sure beats its previous hideous 'Login' livery!

This repaint was flagged on SRS facebook a few days ago. Rollout has come sooner than some expected. .

Despite my instant reaction being definitely 'railings', based on dozens of visits the RhB over 60 years - this question made me doubt myself! So I had to go back to lots of photos of RhB to double check. I would definitely add railings. Even if not the modern version, all pictures of my own and published in books show railings on all but the shortest bridge. I have seen a few short 'culvert' bridges and retaining walls apparently without railings but it looks as though the rule might be that railings are required on anything longer than a single arch structure. My 2010 pictures show no railings on the small bridge on the lower loop at Berguen, but railings on the small bridge on the middle level. To add additional debate - I find the size of the stone blocks in your small viaduct too large. Looking at RhB stone infrastructure, IMO each stone block should be about the size of a headlight on an RhB loco

The trick with specialised words like this is to not look at a 'translation' dictionary (eg French/English) but to look up a 'single language' dictionary (eg Larousse for French) I did exactly that and large barrel is one of the definitions. There is a background info note against said definition which explains that the word was borrowed from German (Fuder).

Yes, I mentioned the bi-foudres because that is exactly what you already have behind the loco in your lead-off post - twin barrel wine wagons. No wine in Brittany so if they were used they would almost certainly not have Etat railway markings. Most Bi-foudres had private owner markings plus railway allocation PLM or PO-Midi for wine wholesalers in the south of France or the Paris region. I recommend you letter them up as the latter. Here is an example: http://www.maquetland.com/article-phototheque/10558-wagon-bi-foudre-1910-sete-2016

In contrast, I do see the point. The superelevation on my layout Chamossaire definitely helps long intermodal and express passenger trains get round the curves into the fiddle yard with less risk of derailment due to excessive drag or buffer lock. .

The most plausible vignette I can come up with is a small layout serving a warehouse (perhaps bottling plant?), where the bi-foudres arrive from either Paris or further afield (usually south)

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The mobile substations occur all over Switzerland - I've seen them frequently on my travels

I have some of the largest radius Unitrack superelevated double track. I will try and put a few sections together and photograph it for the benefit of this thread. However I think even the largest radius is quite tight to represent the Burgdorf - Wynigen section.