Gordonwis

Here's the pic I found with little effort on my phone: https://www.rail-pictures.com/1200/a-db-ice-4-from-43637.jpg

No, still working on fettling the layout to ready it for the SRS AGM. The ICE4 should be 12 coaches but my Thunersee layout is compact so I felt 7 cars would be a good compromise so I made the purchase (but not before I'd ventured outside the hall to get phone connectivity for a quick internet search for pictorial confirmation that green stripe ICE4 run/have run at some point to Interlaken.

ICE 4 from Neil Cresswell at the Alton show this weekend Required for my new Thunerseebahn layout booked for the SRS AGM in April Starter set plus 3 coach add on - immediately amalgamated in to the 'book' case

You hardly need a timetable for RhB since all the main 'fast' services run essentially every hour. Once you are on a train from your starting point it will generally connect into any other train on the RhB network at all the main nodal points. https://www.rhb.ch/de/service-souvenirs/streckennetz PDFs for RhB main lines: Albula Chur - St Moritz: https://www.xn--v-info-vxa.ch/sites/default/files/fap/2024/pdf/940.pdf Landquart - Klosters - Vereina - Scuol / St Moritz: https://www.xn--v-info-vxa.ch/sites/default/files/fap/2024/pdf/910.pdf Pontresina - Zernez - Scuol: https://www.xn--v-info-vxa.ch/sites/default/files/fap/2024/pdf/960.pdf Chur - Disentis: https://www.xn--v-info-vxa.ch/sites/default/files/fap/2024/pdf/920.pdf Other lines basically dovetail off the main lines

ditto for my 'local to family' line: Bellegarde - Divonne les Bains. All now lifted and converted to path following the environmentally-unfriendly decision to abolish the rail based transport of aggregates and domestic waste to and from Crozet.

I tested this on some familiar spots and found the feature to be fairly useless, either showing blindingly obvious access points such as level crossings, or places where 'access to the line' is at best marginal (eg on railway land or on a vegetation-covered embankment) , in some cases impossible. It also still shows access points to lifted lines.

Not sure what this is supposed to show. Any explanations available anywhere?

Suffice to say a DB Br 64 for RhB is not on my Swiss wishlist :-) https://www.ebay.de/itm/204356321051?hash=item2f9495ff1b:g:P1oAAOSwGVlkee3Z&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4Atm7EKoJDfqlZNpB6afgFjA%2FJb8Q2iZANE5%2Be4CWG6aC%2BvKxydl5vzbj%2BbU33Ka2f42YX63H%2BGp6nMd%2BZCu9dtPfdBmcxjUd7kEdxD8yRjfGx66154yGozKJPk4QPPvwpw28BZFpu0o7S2ABvNpaSqbtpZ8nclWO1%2FiFQ4%2F1PK%2BP96xrcuGFPrR7TmxFbHNZzuG%2F%2F3%2B9FXYq4FZdf2DN55NYcIRNv9sAcxDDBw2%2F4A7vZdZWK83Dg1lBzpVQelXyVHLZmCaWYBeE0YVw0mbEFE8%2B%2BpbVZIElPvQOFdTabnu|tkp%3ABk9SR8KXvPGsYw

60 quid from Ebay (UK) 'never opened' mint 2019 iteration of Fleischmann Bt

The superb RhB flat wagons from an artisan on German ebay: Picture 1 shows unpainted with Kato RTR freight bogie left and Japanese 'kit' bogie right. IMO the kit bogie gives the best running height Picture 5 is new version left versus RhB Modellbahn version right

Being my usual pedantic self, the above phrase is more correctly: 'A new version of 'Chocolate train' (the Chocolate Express) is now running Bern - Broc [made possible by regauging allowing a direct standard service throughout]

A couple of minor points: 1) the Train du Chocolat (metre gauge version) was latterly part bus - with only the direct MOB bit being by train (cheaper than maintaining a complex agreement between MOB and TPF I suppose) 2) The MOB service with the old (original and replica) 'pullman' type cars has been called the Golden Pass Belle Epoque for some years now. .

'8F' 45153 at Ulukisla in the 1970s Photos by my late uncle, Jeremy Wiseman As ever with Turkey, a fascinating 'geopolitical' (and loading gauge) mix with the 8F attached to a DRG 'Hecht' coach

Some more now I sorted the orientation issue Some more 1971 shots - photos by my late father Richard Wiseman

Workaround for the annoying mis orientated pictures - converted them to .png By the way who can spot the Austin 1100?

Trying again Some more 1971 shots - photos by my late father Richard Wiseman

It's a bit more than that IMHO. It could be argued that Graffiti covered Swiss wagons is the most significant new item announcement for many years - given that this is the way all nearly all wagons are nowadays! Also I have a photo of an RTS class 2043 at Olten... .

No - renamed - saved in a different folder on my laptop - no joy

- any ways to correct this ?

Can anyone explain why these photos - exactly the same as all my other digital photos on my PC - loaded themselves onto here upside down? I can't seem to edit then]m within this forum to get them upright.

And with a geopolitically sensitive advertising livery... .

Thanks for all the views on 'business sense' - but I'm still not buying an Arnold ETR610 until they do it in plain SBB livery... On the subject of unwanted model variants, I think it it is very telling that in recent days/weeks I've seen Cisalpino livery N gauge stuff being 'remaindered'... The next test of all this will be the sales figures for the Arnold SNCF CC6500 in 'aberration' beton livery' - a double whammy of short lived and disliked (the latter is why it was short lived...)

That's a good call. I've no idea who does research at Messrs Fleischmann but there has been a comment on another forum about 'yet another Re4/4II ...in TEEE ...as (yawn) 11158) ...again! Similarly why a Cargo livery 421 without aircon. If they want to sell loads of Re4/4II (because lots of people might want to make up an Re10/10 combo), a simple red livery twin panto example with Re420 numbering caters for a good few years now, but also bang up to 'today' And more Cisalpino stuff ( a short lived brand and liveries)

I actually said 'British built' not 'British outline' ( hence the batch of German outline 56001 class is included) But even given that - in addition to the 8Fs there were several British outline locos at Zonguldak, and back on TCDD, the distinctly British-styled ex ORC 46101 class (Robert Stephenson 2-8-2) .

Despite my late father (the founding father of Crich National Tramway Museum) having passed away in late 2020 and my uncle in 2022 we are still going through the vast legacy of transport photos left by both of them. Included in this are 000s of European tramway photos. Guided by my uncle who was an expert on Iberia, we visited Portugal in 1971 (in a J reg Austin 1100...) . We visited Lisboa from our base ( a camp site in Sintra). Here are two shots taken at Sete Rios on 13 August 1971