Paspels - the first (?) Nm9 layout? and my Nm9 creations

[Gordonwis]

Having bought some HOm, but not really having the space for a BEMO Swiss ng layout and being an N gauge specialist since 1971 I started working with the Kato 'Glacier Express series' (later morphed into 'Kato Rhaetische Bahn Series') the moment it became available. I created a layout as a redundancy project back in 2013, initially with the idea that it could be a dual purpose layout which could be operated in one session as SBB, in another session as RhB. I think I was the first UK modeller to make a complete layout for the then new Kato stuff but would be happy to be proven inaccurate...

 

In the end I decided that I wanted to hone the layout to be pure RhB and pure 'Nm9'. In fact the term Nm9 was not invented when Paspels featured in Continental Modeller circa 2017, so I dubbed it Nn! 

 

The layout has seen everything from the basic Kato starter set rolling stock, through my kitbash creations  to the latest available Kato, artisan and other products, and my Nm9 collection now covers about 70% of RhB stock types!

 

Here it is back in February 2015, with my mate Paul J's early Ge4/4II scratchbuild with my bashed Roco Valser van on American wagon bogies to achieve the 'miniaturised' effect of what is meant to be metre gauge on standard 9mm gauge, and my early cut and shut of a Lima 1st generation standard gauge SBB EW on Kato GEX bogies

Edited June 24, 2021 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

By March 2015 I had repainted a Kato 644 into Co-op livery ( easiest to do with a quick spray of white) and created some scratchbuilt /conversion wagons and then the Allegra appeared in June 2015

 

 

Edited June 25, 2021 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

June 2015: The Allegra at various points on the layout

 

 

[Gordonwis]

July 2015: I had created various wagons  (posed on our then-nascent French club layout):

 

a simple 'RhB container well wagon' conversion using a cheap old fashioned Roco standard N well wagon 

 

a tanker wagon (Roco original, with American small bogies for 'miniaturisation effect' again)

 

Two bogie flats:  shortened standard N gauge flats (one Fleischmann, one Minitrix)  with 'miniature' bogies replacing the 'standard gauge' originals.

 

a Usego Haik (usual Roco conversion on US bogies)

 

A Co-op container (paper sides pritt sticked on to a standard German 1:160 post container

 

a diesel shunter (Fleischmann 3 axle industrial shunter repainted RhB orange) 

 

 

Edited June 25, 2021 by Gordonwis

[Gordonwis]

August 2015:

 

My 'tromp d'oueil' working Del Prado Croc, with one side frame removed to show how the Kato shorty chassis fits in

 

Also, created the Ge4/4III 'Ems' - an even simpler repaint than Coop, being all over white.

 

Kato had released their 'Filisur' station.

 

Photo on a small diorama board

 

Edited June 26, 2021 by Gordonwis

[MichaelE]

I had no room either to model RhB after my track was laid. In fact, being brand new to European model railroading over three years ago , I had never heard of the RhB back then.

 

I used a third branch line in HO to model HOm and created dual gauge track on this branch line.

 

I mostly run RhB 99.9% of the time but I have my choice of SBB, ÖBB, or DB to run too if I choose.

 

Dual gauge is rather novel and convenient.

[Gordonwis]

I've modified the title as the thread contains stuff about rolling stock not directly related to the layout

[Gordonwis]

Here's a little RhB freight train I put together last week at my club

 

https://flic.kr/p/2mNPVb5

[Gordonwis]

I'm working on an extension to the layout which is scheduled to appear at the SRS AGM show in April. By then I should also have fully in service around 20 home-prepared wagons (ie not the KATO CooP containers and container well flats (although I have a good few of those too)!

 

I will be attempting to re-post some photos of the layout as all the old photos disappeared in the RM Web 'crash'

Edited February 3, 2023 by Gordonwis

[Bundah]

On 03/02/2023 at 11:51, Gordonwis said:

I will be attempting to re-post some photos of the layout as all the old photos disappeared in the RM Web 'crash'

 

Please do as time allows.

 

I've very keen to see the Croc conversion.  I'm also keen to take a look at the Fleischmann shunter you painted orange; I'm looking for a simpler conversion for my first attempt as a new hobbyist.  Don't suppose you remember the brand / colour of the orange you used ?

[Gordonwis]

A couple of pics of the first iteration on the layout , which was built in early 2014. Most of the 'early era' photos are from 2016, after I had decided it would be pure RhB and not 'anything Swiss N can run' This is my early Co-Op Ge4/4III repaint with converted Roco N scale tanker and Roco SBB Hbis van on small profile American bogies 

 

 

[Gordonwis]

Three track station with farmland behind. Co-op again and other early Shapeways 3D stuff (container wagons and containers, EWI coaches, Ge4/4II) 

[Gordonwis]

Some more photos from the 2016 era. The layout appeared at Eurotrack Southampton . By this time Kato had released the pukka Coop Ge4/4III. You can also see my mate's BE4/4 set and a pre-Kato Ge4/4II, plus Shapeways EWI and EWII and a vaguely presentable 700 loco creation!

 

 

Edited March 16, 2023 by Gordonwis