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I waited to see if Gordonwis had anything to report before jumping in. There certainly was green SBB stock running in to Interlaken at that time. Also, the BLS (and associated companies) were running coaches in green; Gordonwis would probably know when the change to beige and blue commenced. This picture is from 1979, and shows Ae4/4 252 pulling a green carriage, but the owning company of the carriage can't be seen. If you are after ANY green SBB coaches in Interlaken Ost, then of course the Bruenig is your friend. This picture is also 1979: Finally, this picture from 1980 at Spiez gives various BLS companies stock in green: Hope this helps. Dave

They are where I want them - but given half a chance, Windows 11 will put a new file on c: alongside the operating system instead of the drive designated in the application. Each update seems to try it on again. I'm not using 95 nor 98 any more, but still retain various machines with XP onwards. Some Win 7 programmes are better (for my uses) than their counterparts in Win 11. If you are happy using Microsoft latest products then carry on! But don't knock those of us with different requirements to you.

Ah, that explains a lot. I'll be glad when I've retired and won't need to pander to clients' requirements for me to have Microsoft on my PC any more. That File Explorer change took me quite a while to put back in to a sensible (for me) operation. I want things where I put them on the PC; not where some employee at Redmond wants them put. I had to find again how to get rid of OneDrive after the update - I realise that many people are perfectly happy for Microsoft to store and sift through their stuff, but that isn't for me. (I'm not just having a downer on Microsoft here in spite of appearances - I don't use a Chromebook for much the same reasons of not wanting my files stored at Mountain View).

They're not all audiophiles (of whatever capability). Some are autistic people, blotting out the ambient noise around them and/or playing something familiar. For more layman's information, rummage in BBC Iplayer and see if you can find the first series of 'The A Word'.

For the record... Dell XPS8940 1st attempt to tell it to install, it ignored. 2nd attempt a few days later, 30 to 45 minutes downloading (BT rural-speed internet) and 10 to 15 minutes updating (can't be exact 'coz I was working, using the same internet service).

On the MOB at Les Cases (immediately east of the Col de Jaman tunnel portal) the passing loop is on a descending gradient (away from the tunnel) while a siding (which starts near the tunnel) is level(-ish). You can see the effect if you strike lucky on this web cam site.

Perhaps ask someone from the club? @DutyDruid can you help?

Try here !

Some further recollections - The SBB Re4/4s in green were quite a common sight too! Many of the BLS coaches (and some locos) were labelled for the constituent companies, so rather than BLS were labelled GBS, BN, or SEZ. Here's a couple of pictures from 1979: And one of the sidings from 1980:

Hi Pete, The standard gauge carriages were a varied assortment of liveries and shades thereof! BLS coaches were in 'standard' green before becoming beige/blue, but even the green seemed to have a 'fast-fade' element to it. Some carriages had patches of repainting, so that a mosaic of greens would appear. International carriages (both individual and rakes of assorted lengths) would be appended to standard trains as well as running as an international set. The vast sidings available at Interlaken Ost made it a favoured termination for such international trains (such popularity extending to being the destinations for DB ICE1 sets when through international running from Berlin became possible after reunification). Carriages I can bring to mind immediately are DB, SNCF, FS, possibly B, OBB, and CSD. The BLS locos were indeed Brown, usually Re4/4 and Ae4/4, plus also Ae6/8, Ce4/4 and Ce4/6. Additionally in green was De4/5. The shunters were a variation of red/orange, depending on fading! No doubt some some more folk will be along with further information.

I signed up to Solar Together a while ago. I was contacted by Hampshire Solar Together a couple of weeks ago to provide the outline details for the next competitive quote cycle, happening on 27th September, and did so. Earlier this week, I received an email from them with the subject, "We're sorry for the mix-up". Within the text it says, "Unfortunately, we made an error when sending an email to you a few days ago. Your address is not in one of our new active regions so you won't be able to participate in our group-buying scheme at this time. We are very sorry for this error". Of course it would be cynical of me to imagine that this was a ploy by their web-management partners to get more details in order to target advertisements at me.

Ditto. I've been doing this ever since an item on which I had intended to bid disappeared from listings only a couple of days after starting on a 7 (or 10) day listing. It appeared that the vendor had accepted an offer - perfectly allowable of course if that option has not been removed from the listing. Accordingly, putting on a small bid prevents an offer from cutting the auction short.

This seller may have something...

See here for more details.

Ah, this is rather close to the Luxembourg system in place when I lived there. There were only a few differences: * Compulsory for everyone, except foreign-origin people who have lived there less than five years, unless they're Irish in which case they don't wait the five years (that's not a joke) ** There was beer too at the sausage booths. In the event of a tie in the votes the elder candidate is declared the winner (happened for a work colleague at the time!).

Following on from Friday's message; Ferro Train now comes under the Halling umbrella of model brands. It seems that back in the past Halling originally made the tooling which was used by some of the model brands. Ferro Train still offer various rack railways in Hon3z (that is H0n3 with zahnstange and zahnräder) which looks very much that they took over the production where Gerard left off. Dave

I'm given to understand that there was a link-up although I'm not at all certain whether it was a badge labelling exercise or commissioned work. I have a link to follow up for the current(ish) Ferro Train stuff; when I get round to it!

I had quite a few of those kits; suburban non-corridor stock, some composites and some brake thirds. Sold them to a trader eventually. 1 hour ago, Peterem said: Actually, I seem to remember some of the early plastic 00 coaches came as a CKD box of parts. You had to bolt on the bogies and battery box castings, and slide the tin roof into place over the one-piece body moulding. So the seller may not be 100% wrong in his description, but I still wouldn't pay more than a fiver for one even today. Like these?

Hi @Jack Benson, I've just found your question when I was putting the pictures back in. The SEF Chassis is OK. You'll need to decide whether you want to do all the fiddling about with the brake assembly on the tender - I seem to recall that you have quite an eye for detail, so I think you may do so. Hope this helps, and isn't too late. Dave

Try Golden Valley or Gaugemaster or Juramodellisme

Pete, Have a look at DVD/CD drive belts - they are available in various sizes - here's a sample advertisement. That may sort out the perished belt problem. Dave

That was good to visit - thanks for putting this in the listings. 😀

Continued.....(final section) Now a quick look at how the Gerard system works in H0n3. This is modelled on the 750mm gauge locomotives of the Schneebergbahn and the Schafbergbahn in Austria. The track uses the separate rail-and-base method, also code 70. The rack looks to be a rather crude representation of Straub rack. However there were points available too: The points don’t have any clever mechanism to provide continuous rack through the assembly though, there is a gap. This is intended to be bridged by having a pinion on both driving axles of the locomotive: Hopefully the chassis idler gears keep everything in synchronism!

Continued..... The Bemo model of the SBB Deh4/6 uses the same trick as the HGe4/4. I presume from the bogie baseplate cut-outs that it would be possible to rearrange the pinion location one suitable wheelsets and pinions have been found: The HRF version of the SBB Deh4/6 uses a single pinion on each bogie, separate from the wheels’ axles. It also has dummy pinions on the central bogie, since that is where the rack drive is on the real locomotive. Here is one I obtained as a non-runner: Staying with HRF, their SBB HG3/3 (another obtained cheaply; it suffered from split gears) has a pinion on the front driving axle. The other pinion seen only operates when the locomotive is on rack. It drives the motion for a second set of pistons. On the real locomotive there are separate sets of pistons for rack and for adhesion drive: Finally for H0m here is the Bemo FO (BFD Brig-Furka-Disentis) HG3/4 with the pinion offset from the centre line to allow engagement in one side of the Abt rack. The flange also makes another appearance although it isn’t so easy to pick out in the picture:

Continued.... For the rack locomotives, so far I have only found a Ferro Suisse FO GHe4/4 which has proper Abt pinions. Here’s one I found cheaply, due to the original foam in the box having destroyed the paint finish: The Bemo FO HGe4/4 uses a half-Abt on each bogie, like this. Notice the flange adjacent to the pinion, to run between the rows of teeth on the rack: However for the BVZ and FO HGe4/4ii and the SBB HGe4/4 (same model, different liveries) the flange is missing from the edge of the pinion: For the SBB models Bemo include the option to change from the Abt gears to Riggenbach gears. This involves (on each bogie) removing the outer wheelset which carries the pinion and replacing it with a regular wheelset (also shown in the picture) which makes the bogie the same as for the RhB version of the model. Then, remove the idler gear from the centre of the bogie and replace it with the replacement idler which incorporates a pinion, also as seen in the picture. It will be observed that the bogie baseplate cut-out is shaped in the middle idler gear position to allow the pinion to protrude beyond the dimension of the idler. As yet I have not found a sample of Bemo Riggenback rack – has anyone found any?