Sometimes railways is about extraordinary locomotives or complete trains,the odd exception,the paradise birds in the crowd.
But most of the time railways is about moving stuff,a great volume of stuff,because moving cargo brings prosperity to nations and the people.
I just bought a prime example of an anonymous hard worker,number 12 of the Maerklin series 00779,the model of the DB standard dry goods car Glmms 64/Gbs 256.
The car does not come cheap at Euro 23.70,but has great detail,including the very tiny securing hooks at the edges.
Two versions can be obtained,a clean "just delivered" version and a weathered version,i bought the latter.
The prototype has corrogated light steel walls.
In real life 300 of them have been built,total length 14.02 mtrs (a 40ft container equals 12 mtrs).
They were in operation day and night,moving all sorts of consolidated cargoes.
The slightly older sister Glmms 61/Gbs 254 had wooden sidewalls,a total of 11,380 of them were built.

It would be a great sight to see 20 of them being pulled by a classic green E150 6 axle DB loco!
The set 00779 has a total of 20 different car numbers,which comes handy.

Hail to the anonymous slaves of the railways,working hard when others sleep in comfort!

Cheers,
Paul.

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Slaves?

To quote from Continental Modeller magazine, "You can never have too many brown vans."

Regarding Märklin they are from 1966. "Neubauzustand um 1966" but they all have UIC number's, i.e. 151 5 271-1 is this correct for era III ?

Another negative comment from you referring to an entry made by me!
What is your problem?
What do you know about Maerklin in the USA that you have to speak against me all the time?
I placed an entry about a Maerklin car i purchased,that is all.
Why placing all these negative comments all the time?
I just can not get it.

Hi Paul,

I totally agree with you that it has become impossible to post anything without someone coming up with some criticism of what has been posted. I am totally fed up with reading entries that only have corrections ("It's not a Br18, it's a Br18.1", or "That loco never pulled those coaches in that colour", or "You don't write E150, it's either E 50 or Br 150").

Maybe it's time I started to correct people. Next time someone says they changed the "anker" on their motor I'll scream!

Tom, in particular, should know better, given the slogan he sports on his signature. Suely this is a case of "Do what I say and not what I do"...

I think the set would look great behind an E50, too!

Nice photo, Marty.

I guess a Br150 with a long train of brown vans can be prototypical then...

Hi Ray, all,
Do I have to define the words?

Is Google broken?

Dr D

Hi Ray,all,

>Well, we all know what slaves are. I'm just wondering why you choose to question Paul's metaphorical use of the word here.<

I wondered about that.If we allknow,then another choice of words would be more appropriate?Don't you think?
Metaphorical:1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison


>Maybe you just don't like answering a straight question...<

Your right,I never have on this forum.

Dr D

Great comeback!

Is every one of your posts intended to provoke an argument? I was quite willing to let this go, but you keep coming back with snide remarks. Why don't you just say what you think?

Do you have a problem with the use of the word "slave"? There are many uses of the word that don't imply any disrespect to former human slaves or their descendents, if that's what bothers you. Have you ever heard the phrase "Slaving over a hot stove"?...or maybe you have a second Mobile Station which is "slaved" to the "master"?

I just think that Paul made an innocent remark in his first post which you jumped on rather violently, and I wanted to hear why you had made a fuss of Paul's use of the word Slave.

Now, maybe you could give us an intelligent and respectful answer, but if you don't, then I really do give up, and any respect I may have had for your opinions will be totally gone.

Hi all,

>Is every one of your posts intended to provoke an argument?<

No discussion.Problem with that?

> I was quite willing to let this go,<

Then why don't you?

>Do you have a problem with the use of the word "slave"? There are many uses of the word that don't imply any disrespect to former human slaves or their descendents, if that's what bothers you. Have you ever heard the phrase "Slaving over a hot stove"?...or maybe you have a second Mobile Station which is "slaved" to the "master"?<

That went right over your head.

>I just think that Paul made an innocent remark in his first post which you jumped on rather violently, and I wanted to hear why you had made a fuss of Paul's use of the word Slave.<

See above.Wait,see below,...

>Now, maybe you could give us an intelligent and respectful answer, but if you don't, then I really do give up, and any respect I may have had for your opinions will be totally gone.<

So it goes.

Dr D

I think they were also known to haul the brown ErzIII ore cars.