David Bell

And one to remind us why we love the mountains

Now a very recent (jan 2020)photo in Lauterbrunnen

I think what Thompson did to the P2's was pretty ugly, but my vote goes to the GER decapod

And another. These modern trains really lack the character of the older trains I feel

One of the JB at Kleine Scheidegg 

Today a photo from Wilderswil

I vote for the RhB G4/5 

I follow all of your threads with interest. I dont know how you find it but working in different scales at the same time takes some getting used to. I work in HO /OO, O, Om and gauge 1. Your scale eye, if I can call it that, moves from one scale to the other.(somehow) So what works in one scale does not in another. It is all good, and all a challenge. And all very rewarding

Keep up the good work.

Cheers 

David

17 hours ago, MOB FAN said:

I stayed at Hotel Baren during a Ffestiniog Travel Holiday trip in December 2016.

Thanks for the SBB zebra and PE pics. I’d forgotten about the freight shed at OST.

This is a very enlightening thread.

 

David

 

 

One of the aforementioned shed

1 hour ago, great northern said:

The poll result. I'm not surprised at the identity of the winner, but I am at the margin of victory. HST gathered 11 votes, and nothing else got more than two or three. Very few steam locos even got a mention, even though there were some which were still performing the same duties, and very competently too, for which they had been designed 40 years previously.

 

However, HST may have ensured the survival of at least long distance rail travel in the UK, and for that we should be very grateful.

 

What to do today? The remaining suggestion in my inbox is that we finish off diesels by considering the various prototypes built from the late 1940s onwards. Of course the Fell may just romp away with this, but let's give it a go. The most attractive design of diesel prototype, perhaps with innovative features thrown in. Some of them didn't work, and others didn't lead to anything further, but that is irrelevant here. The most striking and innovative please.

 

Any more ideas please? This does seem to be giving interest and pleasure, so I'd like to keep it going. Two very good suggestions gave us yesterday and today's polls, so more in that vein if you can.

How about most innovative CME?

My vote goes to .......... Kestrel

31 minutes ago, bantam61668 said:

Thank you, I was lucky enough to live in Bern 2009-2012 so have a pretty extensive collection of Swiss pictures from this time. I still visit 2 or 3 times a year and get out lineside with my camera as much as possible, it’s that or spend time with the in-laws so the slightest hint of sun and I’m away in the car.....

Well done you!

Your layout is coming on a treat too

Cheers

David

6 hours ago, bantam61668 said:

Not so many at Göschenen itself but I have plenty taken on the Gotthard nordramp:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bantam61668/albums/72157627026682925

 

How I miss those Summer days at Wassen watching the seemingly endless procession of freights climbing up the valley across the 3 levels

These are brilliant. Some high quality photos here. The panning shot and the nightime shots are particularly good. Very atmospheric too.Puts my rather ordinary efforts to shame. Thanks for posting those.

David

30 minutes ago, melmerby said:

I've posted these before but maybe time for a refresher:

 

 

 

 

Absolutely superb!

1 hour ago, MOB FAN said:

I stayed at Hotel Baren during a Ffestiniog Travel Holiday trip in December 2016.

Thanks for the SBB zebra and PE pics. I’d forgotten about the freight shed at OST.

This is a very enlightening thread.

 

David

 

 

I am glad you are enjoying it. Most of the pictures posted so far are from the period 2013-2020. All I need to do now is find the pictures from 2004 - 2012. They are here somewhere! The danger for me is I get distracted from my current project to make a model of Glasgow Queen Street and revert to modelling Swiss. Something I did for years. I am already thinking I would love to produce that Brunigbahn train with the standard gauge wagons in O/Om. I already have enough Fama UTZ stock to use to produce the metre gauge stock so a couple of O gauge wagons and scratchbuilding the transporter wagons would do the trick. I can feel myself wavering already!

This is not one of mine, but I think it is worthy of a wider audience.

A reminder of a time when the Brunigbahn transported standard gauge wagons on metre gauge transporter wagons.

It would make an interesting model, no doubt

17 minutes ago, Re6/6 said:

Lovely stuff David. Many thanks.

 

Do you perchance have any of Göschenen? My most favourite train watching location. All those lengthy freights disappearing into the tunnel!

I never went there, though I know it from pictures. I can see why it is your favourite place. It is pretty dramatic scenery

Apologies to Bernat Borras, that one obviously is not mine!

On 19/05/2020 at 16:18, MOB FAN said:

Great photos.

I first visited Interlaken in 1996. Things sure have changed.

Any pics of the meter gauge SBB zebra or Panoramic Express cars? Looks like the BEMO stock on these has dried up.

 

Here are a couple

Before the goods shed at the West end of Interlaken Ost was demolished and replaced with a Youth Hostel there used to be an old semaphore signal left as a momento of times past

Today's picture from Interlaken

I am going to go with the Peppercorn A1. Such a good design we built another one in 2008 sixty years after the first one. And who knows how long that is going to be with us?

4 hours ago, David Bell said:

Not Kibri, it is a Vollmer kit

This one

4 hours ago, David Bell said:

Either would make a good model and the variety of stock which you see on that line is brilliant. I remember a very good model of Darlingen in N gauge in the press a few years ago. And of course the station building is available as a kit if you are thinking of HO (Kibri I think?) 

 

Cheers

David

Not Kibri, it is a Vollmer kit

1 hour ago, DavidMcKenzie said:

Hi David,

 

Thanks for all the interesting photos. I don't have the space for modelling Interlaken even though it would be a brilliant spot to model. I am however thinking about something much smaller based on the area. Possibly based very very losely on Därlingen or Lessingen. I was also interested by the quary Rigips AG and that little section. A very small simple layout for the space I have and although not the full possibility of workings that Interlaken gives, it would still allow both SBB and BLS workings plus a TGV and ICE service. 

 

Thanks again for posting the interesting photos. 

 

All the best,

 

Either would make a good model and the variety of stock which you see on that line is brilliant. I remember a very good model of Darlingen in N gauge in the press a few years ago. And of course the station building is available as a kit if you are thinking of HO (Kibri I think?) 

Cheers

David