Hi Guys,

I don’t suppose anyone has photos they could share of loco depot prototypes with transfer tables similar to the Märklin 7294?

Cheers….

Mike

I'm intrigued that the locos in the roundhouse have been driven in frontwards, normal European practice seemed to be to back the loco into the roundhouse. I was under the impression only the Americans put them in front first.

Thanks Jean, those photos look really nice.

Hello Mike,

I bought my 7294 from German eBay four years ago and have just now begun the project of installing it on my layout.

In the interim, like you I was looking for images of the transfer tables in real, mainly to see how the overhead wires are arranged in prototype.

So here are some of the images I collected, I hope they are of some use to you :





























This article from Stummis forum is also of interest : https://www.stummiforum....-rklin-Schiebeb-hne.html (translates well on my computer)

My 7294 came fitted with the double-arch overhead wire supports.
This did not suit me since my layout oberleitung is by Sommerfeldt and I removed the arches (I was not aware of the Sommerfeldt set as shown in the Brima video referred to in the Stummis article above). One notes that the older (prototypical to 7294?, which is said to be of Stuttgart) schiebebühnen have the arches and a single overhead wire on the table bridge (interestingly the second and fourth text images in the stummi article above reveal the four powerline wires running on the edge of the transfer table well which make contact with a receiver on the edge of one arch. They can also be seen in the ninth of the images above).
The more modern transfer tables instead have overhead wires that span each side of the locomotive yard over the transfer table well (seen as early as the era in the thirteenth image above) and the loco once on the table lowers its pantograph, raising it when the table reaches the required siding. This better suited my setup and I am modelling the overheads in the loco yard as seen in this nice video of the locomotive yard and transfer station at the Port of Hamburg :



Regards,

PJ

Thanks from me as well PJ.

Those great images of railroad history are priceless to me.

Thanks for posting.

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