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A Classic British Rail Design Manual Is Making a Triumphant Return - One enthusiast hopes to track down the final missing pages of the U.K.’s iconic national train service guide before releasing it as a book: http://www.citylab.com/d...40/?utm_source=SFTwitterEdited by user 14 December 2015 17:20:57(UTC)
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Design and railways could be and is a huge area of discussion. Trains are all about aesthetics married to functionality. Thanks for posting that AK. I'd love to see the volumes when he publishes them. But only if he finds the other missing two percent!  - M5 |
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AK, you surely win the prize for research of the most obscure MMR info. We MMR enthusiasts have an alternative reality, and its not all that bad.  Perhaps I should hire you to do my research on the Deutsch-Ostafrika railways and history. Looking for a source that says the Germans dumped their locomotives in the valleys so the Brits could not get them as war booty after WW1. I am not sure if the echo of memory is correct or the idea that they blew up bridges. And any other details of its history. Found a few things on the net, but nothing very comprehensive. - Mark |
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For years a homeless man, "Eisenbahn-Reiner", had a battery-powered small scale railroad with him when begging for money in downtown Frankfurt (Main). The recent decision of the municipal public order office to take away his toys caused public indignation. Source: http://hessenschau.de/pa...isenbahn-reiner-102.html |
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Thanks, AK. That's a sad story about that homeless man. That is probably the only pleasure that he finds in his life. Why isn't he being helped like the newcomers are? He should have a place to live. Peter
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In the meantime the toys were returned to "Eisenbahn-Reiner", but he may not display them at his pitch in a downtown pedestrian zone without special use permit. City officials stated they are prepared to assist him in obtaining such a permit. Source: http://rtlnext.rtl.de/cm...eug-zurueck-4008187.html |
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I am filing this here. A charming animated film based on the children´s book "The Little Train" by Graham Greene. Summary (courtesy of Amazon) since the film is in German : Early one morning the little train wakes up in his home town, Little Snoreing, and decides to go on an adventure. He chugs and puffs his way through villages, past castles and over bridges. But soon he gets tired, and the big city is a bit scary. There's only one thing for it; he'll have to head back! |
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Thank you Alsterstreek . I hadn't seen this since I was 7 years old and it brought back a lot of great memory's.
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  A charming animated film based on the children´s book "The Little Train" by Graham Greene. A nice treatment of trains (although only a minor sub-theme) in an animated movie is in Sylvain Chomet's superb Les Triplettes de Belleville. The little boy gets a puppy for Xmas and when he is playing with his electric train the train runs over the puppy's tail which is lying across the track. This engenders a hatred of trains in the dog, and later when an express train line is laid past their bedroom window it rushes upstairs to bark furiously at every train which passes. This becomes a running joke in the movie, but the award-winning cartoon is very much worth watching for other reasons. If you haven't seen it, you should, and you can find it all over the place on the Net including Torrent sites like Kick-Ass. Edited by moderator 14 March 2017 09:48:21(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  A German lady, a trained Deutsche Bundesbahn engineer, is running a "single-woman enterprise" hauling trains on DB tracks with two vintage E94 locos: Hello Ak, Thanks for posting the video, I enjoyed it very much! I do like the old 194's Regards, Philip 
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For my humble being this sounds obscure: German economy picking up, but DB Cargo cannot keep up with the pace: Upon customer complaints, it was decided to review the current restructuring process. Deutsche Bahn has agreed to purchase 100 freight locomotives from Munich-based Siemens. An order for 4,000 freight cars is in the making. DB Cargo workforce is to be increased by several hundred people (But then the same article states that the originally planned cut of 2,000 of the existing 18,000 staff has been reduced to 500...). Further the federal government has decided to lower rail network usage fees to foster rail-based freight transport. http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/bahn-419.html |
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Remarkable: The revolting H0 scale platform. An alternative to Faller 120200? |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  Remarkable: The revolting H0 scale platform. ... An alternative to Faller 120200? Now there is an idea, easily implemented with a servo too.
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  Remarkable: The revolting H0 scale platform.
Yes it would make me pretty sick too, getting spun upside down like that;) |
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Märklin Model Railway Layout for the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure of Baden-Württemberg (2015)  Translation courtesy of Google Translate: "Model landscape represents the topics and tasks of the ministry Minister of Transport Winfried Hermann took part in the handover of a Märklin Model Railway to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure on 25th November. The system was handed over by Märklin Managing Director Florian Sieber and installed in the publicly accessible entrance area for representation purposes. "The model illustrates on a small scale what the Ministry of Transport is moving on a large scale. In addition to trains and railways, these are also roads with cars and buses as well as a construction site, buildings, cyclists and pedestrians, electric charging stations, wind turbines, wild animal bridges and a loading facility for intermodal freight - a so-called combined freight terminal - in the inland port. I would like to thank the traditional company Märklin, which has implemented the tasks of the ministry in such detail, "said Minister Hermann. Florian Sieber added: "It was a pleasure to implement this project for the Ministry of Transport. Modeling on a small scale illustrates the complexity, but also the versatility of transport policy. " For the 4 meters by 1.40 meters large model system, 30 meters of track were laid with 10 switches on which a total of 4 trains are traveling 10 meters of road were installed for cars, buses and wheels. Charging stations for electric vehicles, wind turbines, photovoltaic systems and a terminal for intermodal transport stand for sustainable mobility. Märklin has been producing model trains for 150 years. The company includes new railway models in its program as well as technical innovations. It took two months to adapt an existing layout for the Ministry. It is permanently in the possession of the Ministry of Transport." https://vm.baden-wuertte...rkehr-und-infrastruktur/Edited by user 25 May 2018 10:47:18(UTC)
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Normally, I am not into train wrecks, but this 1970 incident involving a freight train running - or rather escaping - without motive power from Aachen West (Germany) to Montzen (Belgium) is a noteworthy exception. In Aachen-West, the pushing helper locomotives (2x class 50 steamers) attached to the rear of a wrong freight train, which had no motive power in front yet. Upon a whistle signal from somewhere else, the helpers let their muscles play and pushed the train up to the top of the hill, where the pushers let go so that the train finds its way alone to Montzen. And it did, thundering downhill for 12 km, reaching a speed of more than 80 km/h. Across the border in Montzen yard, staff routed the train off the main line onto a stub track, where the trip ended. Luckily nobody was injured. Amongst other things, several brand new Alfa Romeo cars were destroyed.  German 1970 newspaper article:  Source: https://www.drehscheibe-...php?017,7250454,page=all |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  Normally, I am not into train wrecks, but this 1970 incident involving a freight train running - or rather escaping - without motive power from Aachen West (Germany) to Montzen (Belgium) is a noteworthy exception. In Aachen-West, the pushing helper locomotives (2x class 50 steamers) attached to the rear of a wrong freight train, which had no motive power in front yet. Upon a whistle signal from somewhere else, the helpers let their muscles play and pushed the train up to the top of the hill, where the pushers let go so that the train finds its way alone to Montzen. And it did, thundering downhill for 12 km, reaching a speed of more than 80 km/h. Across the border in Montzen yard, staff routed the train off the main line onto a stub track, where the trip ended. Luckily nobody was injured. Amongst other things, several brand new Alfa Romeo cars were destroyed.
Good Grief. That would take some explaining away. At that time would the train have been fully air braked? If so why were the brakes not on, waiting for a loco to attach and pump the brakes up? Not only that but why were the points set for this train to exit the yard instead of the correct one? I guess the train they were expecting to push would have been a very long and heavy one if there were TWO Br50s to provide helper service.
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A burger restaurant here had a G scale train around the base of the cieling. Baggar Dave's. I hope someone forwarded the pic of the homeless man to Minatur Wunderland. Perhaps they could have hired him, even for a janitor. He wasn't always down on his luck you can tell. Many homelss here do have jobs. They just don't make enough to afford housing. They rely on shelters and soup kitchens. Meanwhile, the top wealthy are flush with cashola. I'm sure many are charitable. We had to scale back our donations after the tax refund deficit in 2018 which returns more to the wealtiest.
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From about 1972 to about 1975, there was an operational peculiarity between Frankfurt/Main central station and Grävenwiesbach: The train set of the D 257 express train from Paris-E[a]st usually continued as a local train to Grävenwiesbach, hauled by a class 216 diesel locomotive. The "French train" came from Paris (Gare de l`Est) as D 257 and ran from 1972/73 to 1974/75, initially as N 2530 local train, later as N 7626 to Grävenwiesbach. After arriving in Grävenwiesbach, it went back to Bad Homburg (as N 2527 or N 7541) and from there as an empty passenger train (Lr 34421) to Frankfurt. After an overnight stay, the set ran back to Paris (Gare de l`Est). N 7626 composition: Mon-Wed: Bm (DB), Bm (DB), Am (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Ds (SNCF) Thu-Fri: Am (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Bm (SNCF), Ds (SNCF) Bm = 2nd class coach Am = 1st class coach Ds = baggage car Source (with images): http://www.weiltalbahn.d..._-_1990/D_257/d_257.html |
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 The aforementioned French express train coaches in German commuter service near Frankfurt.  On the single track branch line  French window sashes.  |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  That was one of my favorite trout fishing holes!!!! A very little known place for quality rainbow trout, natural, not a stocked farm pond.!! Been hiking in to that area for over 50 years, fished very little, but getting harder, since more fires in the area and less snow,(for spring run 0ff) in the past 20-25 years. Still a old favirite as long as the legs hold out, cheers Regards, gene Edited by moderator 20 January 2022 11:37:34(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  From about 1972 to about 1975, there was an operational peculiarity between Frankfurt/Main central station and Grävenwiesbach: The train set of the D 257 express train from Paris-E[a]st usually continued as a local train to Grävenwiesbach..... Hello Ak, I just noticed this post and wanted to say there were likely quite a few incidences of these foreign trains running on DB, certainly in the early fifties. One such example is clearly seen in a B/W photo shown by Märklin when they advertised the 2019 Insider Model 39781. This was the BR78.1 short tender version of the BR38, #78 1001. The photograph shows the engine hauling the D161 passenger train (complete with SNCF Poste car and SNCF baggage car) on its way to a German destination, Stahringen near the Swiss border.  I have no knowledge of where D161 originated, but it would be interesting to find out. Incidentally Hornby Acho made excellent HO models in the 1960s of both the SNCF Poste car and baggage car. The rest of the train are likely French cars as shown better in the following photo. Here is the same train at Uerbelingen in 1954, this time with engine 78 1002.  Kimball |
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Kimball, There is this small thing (albeit from 1958) https://db58.de/2013/07/03/franz...mit-dem-d-161-und-d-162/"A popular photo motif on the Black Forest Railway and on Lake Constance was the D 161 / D 162 between Strasbourg and Lindau (—Innsbruck): with a burgundy-red French postal carriage and the “brightly” green color mixture of the German, Austrian and French passenger carriages in an attractive landscape. The travel times, which are excellent for photographers, were certainly also the reason for the many well-known photos of this express train within the former French occupation zone."Not sure if that helps...? |
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Originally Posted by: Jimmy Thompson  Kimball, There is this small thing (albeit from 1958) https://db58.de/2013/07/03/franz...mit-dem-d-161-und-d-162/"A popular photo motif on the Black Forest Railway and on Lake Constance was the D 161 / D 162 between Strasbourg and Lindau (—Innsbruck): with a burgundy-red French postal carriage and the “brightly” green color mixture of the German, Austrian and French passenger carriages in an attractive landscape. The travel times, which are excellent for photographers, were certainly also the reason for the many well-known photos of this express train within the former French occupation zone."Not sure if that helps...? Wow excellent work Jimmy - thanks for going to that trouble. I have the 78 1001 engine and the Hornby Acho carriages so sometime in the next month or so I will do a photo shoot of D161. It will be a few decades after the original ....... Kimball |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  Hello Ak, That is a huge advance for Europe and a large contributor to less consumed energy. The amalgamation of the actual coupling and the train braking systems is ground-breaking. And it looks like the buffers are gone .... I wonder if Märklin would be interested in doing a model of the test train. Eaos (or Eanos) wagons without buffers ..... Kimball |
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Quote:Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek Go to Quoted Post DB starts Digital Automatic Coupling (DAC) for freight cars test run in Europe. English: https://www.railfreight....n-in-europe/?gdpr=accept I did not see it mentioned (old eyes miss things...) but are these new couplings the digital version (2.0) of the Scharfenberg Kupplung? Thanks all! |
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Quote:Kimball wrote; "I have the 78 1001 engine and the Hornby Acho carriages so sometime in the next month or so I will do a photo shoot of D161. It will be a few decades after the original ......." Looking forward to seeing the "motif"! You are welcome! Sometimes the stars align and I actually find things |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) has several modern LRZ, that are made by Windhoff. The last generation LRZ sems to be based on the Cargo sprinter concept. (LRZ, Lösch- und RettungsZug)  So if Marklin made a model of the LRZ "cargo sprinter" rescue train I would definitely buy one. A Norwegian firefighter and rescue train, putting out a forest fire, last summer, (former SBB LRZ96)
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Originally Posted by: bph  Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  ...... So if Marklin made a model of the LRZ "cargo sprinter" rescue train I would definitely buy one. A Norwegian firefighter and rescue train, putting out a forest fire, last summer, (former SBB LRZ96) Thank you bph, That is a very descriptive photo. Yes I would be tempted to buy that train set too. I have the 29751 train set (one of my first) and buy extra Löschmittelwagon when they they come up for sale. It is a very attractive set for playtime, with the extra tank wagons. Kimball |
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Originally Posted by: Alsterstreek  Hello Ak, This has gained comment from some of my friends here, one of whom is in law enforcement. He says that the scale of the thefts indicate organised crime, with "inside" UP assistance. So he wonders what the UP Police are actually doing .... Kimball |
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