Gordonwis

Oh yes, found it. Its between Don Sainghain and Bethune. Ironically that means it's on the same working as my shot of 66/4 +M12 which was on the same service but further West. Same year as well! Mine was May 2004

I recommend you steer clear of models of this type. It is nothing like anything on the RhB I'm afraid, and even on standard gauge 1:160 9mm) these models are generic at best In the 1960s - 80s all the main N gauge manufacturers (Lima, Arnold, Minitrix, Fleischmann produced wagons looking like this - generic refrigerated vans with what most consider to be inaccurate shape and features. The Basel address is the business address of the InterFrigo consortium, so not a Swiss wagon per se

There are a few ways that people have done it in the past, but I'm not directly in email contact with anyone who is working in HO. I'm fairly certain the overhead at baseboards joints was clipped in some way like a hook and loop arrangement, rather than soldered and unsoldered each time. You could manipulate the end of each piece of wire and make one a 'hook' and one a 'loop'. Suitably tensioned they would not unhook IMO

One place that always comes to mind when I look at your layout is the line between Reichenbach and Frutigen alongside the upgraded main road: There is what almost amounts to a 'hedge' between the road and railway, but there are also some small thin trees https://goo.gl/maps/JozQGETAPZztUVJRA

Your trees seem to have weird gaps between each level of foliage so I think good quality would look better. I always buy from the Model Tree Shop which frequents (at least they did pre-Covid) south east England shows. They make specific varieties of tree, rather than generic. I don't know if they still offer the service but they used to make bespoke trees to order. They made me a very tall fir tree designed to hide the small vertical gap between backscenes on my two-baseboard RhB layout https://www.themodeltreeshop.co.uk/trees.html Another thing I would say is that when creating Alpine layouts, it is often overlooked that not all trees are pine/fir/spruce conifers. Alpine valleys where main line railways usually are also contain plenty of deciduous trees .

'Waste' or 'muck' or sludge' sounds dead right for a wagon based at Suresnes Puteaux. The material was almost certainly waste from Paris's bins or some such

the 25150 on the Evian line took over from this... Chevrier-Vulbens (Haute Savoie), 4 April 1970: photo by Jeremy Wiseman

I should mention that the overhead at Bellegarde is 1500vDC. The line to Evian was electrified at 25kV ac in 1971, from the junction off the Geneve line at Longeray Leaz. Bellegarde - Geneve has now been converted from 1500v DC to 25kV ac

That's an interesting shot - with the 'fil trolley' overhead. I don't recognise the location!

I think H 25502 will be grey/grey not green /grey (as per their blurb). I think the graphic may be erroneous

Annemasse before Christmas 2022:

The 66400 here is attached to an RRR set not a RIO 78

Me again! Thank you for your comments regarding my advice about a French layout needing to have French rather than German outline overhead. I don't regularly model HO, but even so I have two of the Roco 25150 models because they frequented the area where my family lived for 70 years (the connection now sadly broken with the death of my well know world travelled railway 'buff' uncle in October) Sommerfeldt has never offered French style overhead (no European friendliness there ...) but their H section plain ac style masts (ref 195 or 389) looks acceptably like French 25kV ac masts. Scalology (ex Model Masters) appear to retail Sommerfeldt in the UK. However, many people don't realise just how varied overhead catenary is now. Sommerfeldt and others still offer types 'by country' but in this day and age (a) there can be equipment dating from many different decades across the network - for example in Switzerland you can still see 1950s style masts and a km or so down the line will be a 21st century style mast. This even applies to the UK versus European systems. On that note I would recommend you go with the PECO (made by Sommerfeldt...) or Dapol systems for simplicity. Concerns about 'OO' scale are moot IMO as catenary heights can vary due to geography or era of electrification Here's my picture of 25191 at Bellegarde (Ain) on a very chilly day in the 1990s with a train of Evian water

And one from my archive relevant to Tony's comment: Vernier-Meyrin old station, September 1990

Feels like its time for another archive shot. This time from my late father who died a couple of years ago age 95 CGTE tram 122 (125 is preserved) on route 1 at the old tram terminal circle outside Cornavin, 1948

I did it a few times in stages, mostly deliberately pre-base tunnel. I had the idea it would provide constant opportunities for photos of the freight trains but in fact the path often (necessariliy) deviates from the railway and you miss the best train (happened to me with a green Ae6/6 freight...) The upside is that some of the route is on the route of the construction railway so its like walking on the route of , say, the Ffestiniog railway had it remained closed! My best Swiss cab ride was on a RhB Croc on a Scuol - Samedan mIxed train (my best two non Swiss cab rides were on a Turkish Kriegslok in Anatolia and an SNCF CC72000 diesel from Roanne to Lyon Perrache)

I'm jealous too! As others on here will already know, my paternal family was resident in the Geneva area (actually in France from 1950) for around 70 years until the last link (my well known railway traveller and author uncle) passed away in October. I stood up the chance to get an 'in' at WHO when I left school and have always regretted it - but free board and lodging with the family at any time made up for it somewhat over the years. Because I visit (ed) Switzerland frequently I actually have a Swiss Pass and an annual Swiss half fare card 'just like the locals'! which I made use of in June and December 2022 thankfully Here's a photo from last month's visit:

Apologies, my comment was slightly tongue in cheek by the way - based on my photo angle. I and especially my wife needed to pluck up some courage! A worse bridge with a similar modern footway addition is the Bietschtal viaduct on the Lotschberg South ramp .

The Croc is from the Del Prado 'Railways of the World' partwork (100 static models in 1:160, some near perfect - others terrible, some remarkably similar (...) to existing proper models (eg the Del Prado Re4/4II had the same over-wide body as Fleischmann's 1st generation Re4/4II , and the same running number...!) I have about 10 of them (I last saw one for sale at Guilford show 2 days ago - £5) One of mine is motorised by the way! .

Oh it's not that bad surely!...

I believe it is this bridge is it not? My picture taken on 21 August 2018

The type of set in my picture was often the first bit of SNCF I would encounter on a summer holiday Inter Rail In the mid-1980s I used to have two standard starting procedures for my summer rail holiday. Both entailed clever practices to avoid the queue to get on the ferry as a foot passenger. If I was heading south/southeast or east I would get a regular train to Dover Priory, walk or bus to Eastern Docks, car ferry to Calais, bed down on the floor of the then small foot passenger building to await the first shuttle bus to Calais Ville then get the circa 05.30 66400+RIO78 from Calais Ville to Hazebrouck, for a similar set but with 16500 electric Hazebrouck - Lille If I was heading south west, I would take a regular train to Newhaven (ahead of the boat train), walk to the ferry to be at the front of the queue, at Dieppe take the boat train but only as far as Rouen, when I would get off and take the 06.00 all stations X3800 Picasso railcar to Mezidon, for a Turbotrain to St Pierre des Corps

https://www.maquette-carton-kartonmodellbau.com/en/

http://www.richesheures.net/

Hornby is spending all its money on French N (viz Arnold 2023 announcement...)