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I would say probable more than plausible! I would hazard a guess that such an ancient loco drops oil a tad more than 21st century designed locos... The test would be to see if there is any in track 3 at Filisur (although the croc probably spends less time overall at the latter than at Davos )

More Swiss post: Here's the shortest post consist I've seen for a while (Rupperswil, May 2023): This photo is interesting - despite the article I posted from 2015 saying 4 wheel post vehicles would be abolished - here some are in May 2023 (Aarau). No containers at all in this train! No artics in this consist (Rupperswil December 2022):

Ah yes, taken by Don Gatehouse (SRS member) , who I have chatted with often. Lead wagon looks to me like the '495' type which would make Hobbytrain's AAE owned twin artic 495 type with four post containers (ref 23707) an accurate model. I had a hunt for any info on Poste Suisse web site. I can't see a 'wagon fleet' section, but worth a look here https://www.post.ch/en/business-solutions/small-consignments-and-transport if only for the picture of the container transfer This is also worth a look: https://www.bahn-journalist.ch/pdf/ru_2015_11-12_postwaggons.pdf .

On such a key route, I would expect them to clear the debris and get things repaired asap, so it could indeed be just a few days. If it is mainly an avalanche shelter there are other ways to mitigate that such as avalanche fences, and we are still in August so there would be a few months 'window' for erecting something. It all depends on what the priority level the authorities attach to getting remedial work done

Yes, i think that is the case. Out of interest where did you see the picture of the bogie wagon with post containers? I have a large collection of SBB post vehicles as they run so often (for example at weekends when fewer other freights run). I think I've got an example of all types from the Mabar 4w through the Fleischmann Habis type to the ex SNCF dome roof 26m type (including the 1970s Lima 4 wheel van in SBB green!) except the articulated fixed axle vans that used to run.

I have a motorised Del Prado Croc. It's 1:160 so slightly small but putting Kato chassis in it pushes the height up quite nicely. What stock have you got? Bear in mind that the Glacier express coaches are always hauled by Ge4/4II on Chur - Disentis, and for the last few years they are the standard traction for GEX on the Albula. There is also heaps of RhB stuff on Shapeways .

No two car units. There were two types of SNCF Turbotrain. First version: type ETG = Element a turbine a gaz. 4 cars. One turbine motor car with a Turbomeca 'jet' engine, the other end power car was diesel essentially a modified Caravelle (X4300) DMU power car Second version: type RTG = Rame a turbine a gaz. 5 cars both power cars with Turbomeca jet engines The ETG's were ousted from Paris - Cherbourg by the later RTGs, and redeployed to Rhone-Alpes/Burgundy/Franche Comte

I have seen and photted hundreds of Swiss post trains over the last 15 years or so and seldom seen post containers on bogie flats. I think it is the least common. The post containers can be transhipped to lorries and of course to the RhB ng You might like to study the Google satellite image of the Daillens post centre in Canton Vaud : https://goo.gl/maps/941Nf7iX2oTatVw4A

Arnold 4363 (Uetikon tank) might be a starting point

People have been saying the same thing since the inception of the Kato Glacier Express stuff circa 2015. I even suggested it to Mr Kato himself but nothing yet .

Any 'freight' will be departmental or infrastructure nowadays. Even Swiss narrow gauge lines have very little freight theses days - not economical

Disagree! Brilliant - jet aircraft on rails They worked Strasbourg - Lyon inter city and Lyon - Bordeaux for many years .

This was a a breakaway group (politics ... politics...) from the Doller tourist railway Cernay - Sentheim (CFTVD) which I visited in 1979 .

Artouste. The dam construction railway which was converted into a tourist attraction .

Late to this thread as I have been in Alaska, Canada and California! Classic 80s/90s SNCF stuff - thank for the photos The loco is BB9262, a dc only 'BB Jacquemin' aka 'BB MTE', so likely to be at Avignon or somewhere in the south (given that you also show a 6500 in Narbonne)

Cascades service passing Sperling. Aug 5 2023

CN3960 tailing a grain freight towards Vancouver. Sperling (Burnaby Lake) . 5 August 2023 sent from my laptop in the Pacific Ocean...

Just to add to the mix - a bit of geography - aka an excuse for me to post this nice pic of a pair of 'Secheron' Ae4/7s crossing the Pont de la Jonction in 1990, when the line was freight only. It is now traversed by hundreds of passengers trains a day on the 'CEVA' route. Also, it's a 'peg' to ask Tony if he is aware of the history of the other high bridge in Geneva - the Pont Butin? .

By 'point indicator' I meant more 'an indicator situated adjacent to pointwork'. I just couldn't think of a better phrase at that moment

For comparison, my pictures of NStCM in December 1985... I have to say I thought the decision to put the Nyon terminus into a concrete bunker/dungeon was wrong. It is one on my list of the 'Swiss light railway conundrum' - by that I mean I can never really get the Swiss pysche that puts odd bits of 'light railway' out of the way to get them off the street, whilst at the same time having hundreds of kilometres of on-street city tram track And going back a bit further - La Givrine circa 1973: Pralies Telesiege halt on the same afternoon

Not everyone's a fan, but my three current Swiss layouts are all Unitrack. I wonder if you could employ Kato's shallowest superelevated track (rad 480+447mm) . Kato's double ballasted track is a close match to well engineered tidy Swiss trackage and lends itself well to simple track layouts.

Well, you've already found two more photos than I've ever seen in detail! http://doctrain.centerblog.net/57-wagons-citernes-a-lait-sncf .

Here at Chambesy you can see signals without ground indicators, but where the point are on the right you can see the dwarf signals

No the 'ground signals' are a combined point indicator/route indicator/signal, not pure signal repeaters as such. Next time you are out and about look for signals on plain line away from any turnouts, then look at some pointwork, you will see the difference. Here's a shot (one of hundreds of course!) I took on my Swiss trip this year which shows them well. A train is still passing the point indicator which is still therefore at 'clear' for the route set, but the train is already passing the signal ahead which has already turned back to red