Grate pictures Luts,

HO garden rail roads, now there is an ideal

Very nice![:p]

Is that real 26536?

Great pictures - I'm envious [8)]

Hi Steven,

not yet - as you should be able to see from the loco's product numbers and epoche (IV) - but #26536 will as well arrive hopefully soon! [:p]

Nice pictures.

Greetings,
Davy

Thanks Lutz,I have already order with Lokshop.Will let you know when lokshop email me that in stock and delivery.

I already have the 37884 and 37885 as well.The 37885 still in the box since brought and would not running it because a collector item.

Really nice Lutz, thank's !

I think you need a bigger house soon, hehehe

Wow, what a coal train! Very impressive photos, and it's a perfect H0 garden layout weather here where I live, too...

BTW, how did you control the double header of the two BR 43/44's ? I suppose you did use the consist mode of the CS, isn't it ?

Hans Martin

Good Pictures Lutz. Enjoy.

David

Hi,

the desperately awaited "Langer Heinrich" finally arrived at its target destination. Here some first impressions:

The set is nicely packed in a larger case and accompanied by a small flyer which shows both, the Märklin and TRIX complementing sets of locos and waggons.



The new loco matches closest the first newly constructed BR44, #37880. Besides the different epoche (III vs. IV), the sound and telex (to which I have retrofitted my 044 as well as wheel lights) the new model differs very visible from its predecessor by the darkened ("brünierte") steering parts and some revision dates on the red buffer plates (date is 7.12.64). The loco was assigned to the BD Münster and located at the BW Rheine.







The sound functions are the same as for the earlier BR44 with "big ears", #37889.



The lightly aged ore waggons have the following road numbers:

611886, 611890, 611899, 611918, 611925, 611940, 612420, 612435, 613111 and 613220. They are all different from the road numbers of the former (non-aged) TRIX set #23935 and #31356 ore waggons can also be seen within the above shown pictures.

As soon as the accompanying sets #46255 and TRIX #24202 are delivered, my locos will really have quite a bit to pull.

And as an additional enjoyment here's a picture of the smoking chamber door of a real BR44, which I just pictured a few hours ago.

Hi,

Very nice Lutz, thank's for sharing,,,

Hi Steven,

many thanks for your hint. I hadn't seen/realized that you had posted your pics already (which are IMHO much nicer than mine! ). I also had in mind to show the difference between this new fine model and its predecessor.

Did you already recognize that AUX2 is still unused, which means that you could as well add wheel or cabin lights like I did with my #37880.[:p]

When i will extend my silvretta board layout,i hope that that consist will be feasible,thanks Luis.

Speaking of reports, this is from the 26536 "Langer Heinrich" listing in the Marklin Product Database:

“Lange Heinrich“ / “Long Henry“. Embedded in the Northwest German plains area is the Emsland area, a region rich in bodies of water and moors. At the start of the Seventies until the end of steam locomotive operation on the DB in October of 1977, it became the Mecca for railroad enthusiasts from all over the world. The last steam giants on the German Federal Railroad ran with passenger trains to Norddeich Mole, and heavy freight trains were in operation between Emden and the large industrial centers on the Rhine and Ruhr. The star on the Emsland line was the "Lange Heinrich" / "Long Henry", a 4,000 metric ton ore train between the Emden switch yard and Rheine, always with two of the last great freight locomotives from the classes 042, 043, and 044 as motive power. The high-capacity hopper cars were loaded with imported raw material in Emden's outer harbor and were hauled by steam and diesel locomotives to the switch yard and there were assembled into long unit trains of 2,000 and 4,000 metric tons. The power output of one of the powerful locomotives was just enough to bring the load for the 2,000 metric ton trains over the lightly ascending exit onto the mostly flat 140 km / 88 mile route to Rheine. The "Langer Heinrich" trains were twice as heavy and required the use of two locomotives, which got underway after a furious start, often with slipping wheels. The trains usually had oil-fired class 043 locomotives from the Emden and Rheine Districts as motive power. The classes 042 and 043 were often used in combination, occasionally two of the class 042, and quite rarely the last of the coal-fired class 044 helped along with the other two classes. The latter two classes were equipped for oil firing during an overhaul and had entered the motive power roster at Rheine in 1967. There were many locations along the route for taking impressive train photographs. A favorite among knowledgeable photographers was a bridge at Aschendorf, south of Papenburg. The trains could be photographed in almost their entire length on a curve leading to the right. Even more ideal and probably the best place in the Ems area was south of Lathen. There, the route ran between two sand dunes in a curve to the left and offered an unobstructed view of a complete 4,000 metric ton train under the best lighting conditions. A requirement was of course good weather, exact knowledge of the schedule for the trains, and being there early in the morning, when the sun was still low on the horizon. Long before the train entered this section of the route, a distance column of smoke and the unmistakable rhythm of the exhaust announced its approach. The waiting was then rewarded with an unforgettable view of the entire consist from the front of the locomotive to the end of the train consisting of fifty cars. (From drawings by Horst J. Obermayer).

Thanks for the information on LH.