Nice!

Hi Alberto,

Very nice . Those old electrics have something special about them.

Hi Makka-Pakka,

Welcome to the forum.

Thanks,steventrain:)

A brand new, heavy metal, emerald green Gator in the pipe for 2011.
E1020 #37227 - welcome to the bunch. What color !!!
But, alas - since she's wearing those tiny plastic couplers guess there'll be no blue box with ...

Edited by user 27 January 2011 12:44:04(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

They are beautiful John.

For whatever reason, it's that gentle slope on the front and back of the old electric locomotives that really talks to me. Hence my affliction of having to own every version of the E69's and E70's that I can get a hold of!

Luckily i managed to get one of this top locos.

And for best look & operation I even re-fitted 'em with sturdy classic RELEX couplers made from metal

The Grandfather (already published two years ago)

And the most impressive, clean & classic HO tinplate layout I've seen, ever ...

Hi Alberto,

Great video of the E94 hauling the tank train.
And just the classic view alongside the tracks, leaving the camera rolling till the whole train passes.



regards
Kimball

Rob - sorry, got no idea re operational history of Gators in Germany. I just like 'em ...
Thus on my layout they roam the NYC Highline, most of the time. A few can be even found at AT&SF

The plains of northern Germany never saw the 194s. And in addition electrification reached Hamburg relatively late.

Some more facts can be found in the German Wikipedia. Link

For the benfit of non-German speakers I provide a translation (from Google improved by me):

"History [edit]

The electric locomotives of the class E 94 was built in 1940 and was designed for heavy freight service. They should also increase the carrying capacity of more difficult ramp routes, such as the Geislinger Steige, the Frankenwald railway line, the Arlberg railway and the Tauern railway.

The Co'Co' locomotives represented a direct evolution of the series E 93, from which the E94 differ visibly outside only by the perforated lateral support. AEG delivered to 1945 146 of these, also known as KEL (Kriegsellok) 2 machines, with the operating numbers E 94001-136, E 94 E 94 145 and 151 to 159. In the rail vehicle design and production there was an increasingly use of domestic materials. The locomotives were admitted to 90 km / h top speed.

The locomotives of the series E 94 were able to pull freight trains of 2,000 tonnes in the plane at 85 km/h, 1,600 tons over 1.0 percent slope at 40 km/h, 1,000 tons over 1.6 percent at 50 km/h and 600 tonnes over 2.5 percent at 50 km/h"

"Post-war period [Edit]
After the Second World War, the stock was split: most locomotives went to the German Federal Railways. From existing parts additional locomotives were completed after the war and put in the DB and ÖBB operations. A total of 44 machines were received by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), which ran there as a series of 1020 and were retired by 1995."

"German Federal Railways [Edit]

The DB had 1954-1956 more locomotives built, numbered 94178-196 E and E 94 262 to 285 built as a separate series as well as gained four more of the DR, so they had a total of 124 vehicles in the fleet. In addition to the carriage of freight trains as they were pushing locomotives on the Geislinger Steige and the Spessart ramp.

In 1968 the DB re-marked the E 94 series according to their scheme into the UIC series designation 194.

The locomotives built after the war E 94 and 141 and 142 could from 1970 drive 100 km/h. E94 262-285 and were given the numbers 194562-585 and 541 and 542. These locomotives were equipped with a high-voltage control BBC/Siemens 4680 kW and with that much more powerful. The use of 194 series was limited to the DB in the south of Germany. Northernmost and westernmost points of contact were Bebra and Mainz-Bischofsheim. Eight of the 194.5 locomotives were equipped with an additional red marker light for the pushing locomotive service, in order on the one hand to save the train drivers the constant getting on and off to remove or put in place the final disc and on the other hand, allow the display of false driving signal (Zg 2). 194 178 has been repainted, as the only locomotive of its series, in the ocean blue-beige color scheme valid from 1974. The use of the 194 series on the DB ended in 1988."

"German state railway [Edit]

In the area of the DR in the GDR 30 locomotives were left, of which ten of them were damaged. Of them, after the ending of electric power, 25 locomotives are transferred in March 1946 in the Soviet Union as reparations.

In connection with the double-track development of the line Zwickau-Aue-Johanngeorgenstadt around 1950 there were also plans to electrify it. A total of 16 E94 locomotives should take over the uranium or service for the company SDAG Wismut. However, these plans were not realized, since there were smaller amounts of uranium than hoped for. In 1952 and 1953 the USSR returned the 25 locomotives to the DR.

Since E 94 032 already in 1948 was given to the DB, DR found themselves with a fleet of 29 damaged locomotives, of which 23 machines could be put back in service by the end of the 1950s. Four E 94 were sold 1956-1960 to the DB and two E 94 was retired because of greater damages and used as spare parts.

Initially, the DR used the E 94 of Bitterfeld, Halle (Saale), Leipzig-Wahren and Magdeburg-Buckau in the heavy freight service. After electrification of the Saxon Triangle in 1963, some locomotives were re-allocated to Zwickau. From July 1st, 1970, the DR ran the E 94 as a series 254.

As the first locomotive the 254 096 was retired on May 30th, 1974, parked in 1973 after an electrical fire. The 254 017 followed on July 13th, 1978 after an accident. In 1979, the 254 057 and 058 were transferred to the Braunkohlenkombinat Bitterfeld and put them in service under own control.

On January 1st, 1991 the DR had eight machines, but these were to be retired with excetion for the museum locomotive 254 056 during the year. The 254s were given the nickname "iron pig" at DR."

"Austrian Federal Railways [Edit]

Due to the fact that Austria was already attached to the Third Reich, already in the planning of the locomotives, use on the Alp ramps of the Arlbergbahn, Karwendelbahn, Karawankenbahn, Tauernbahn and Brennerbahn was foreseen as a train, pull and push locomotive. From 1940 the German State Railway locomotives introduced the class E 94 for service in Ostmark (Remark: Austria was called Ostmark in the Third Reich).

After the war, there were 44 locomotives in Austria. In 1952 ÖBB ordered three additional locomotives. The series name was changed in 1954 into class 1020.

The 1020 series was used for decades in the freight train and ramp service, and was stationed in all major depots. The locomotives were also used in trains to neighboring countries, to Munich, Tarvisio (Italy) and Jesenice (Slovenia).

The locomotives were modernized from 1967 . They received, for example, two broader front windows (originally there were three small) fitted in rubber frames, headlight and tail light combinations, a coat of paint (blood orange instead of forest green) and jet fan grille on the lower front and end part.

The last locomotives of this important series have been retired in 1995."

Edited by user 04 February 2011 19:42:09(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Of course, Rob. It's your very personal little world - and you're the King

Hello,

Thank you both for your replies. I espeically appreciate the historical info. Needless to say, I am now correected. I had assumed the E94 was a passenger locomotive. So I guess when I finally get hold of one, I'll be running her as a freight train though central Germany

Bye,

Hi Rob,

Actually you were never incorrect. The E94 was definitely used on passenge trains, usually heavy ones.
I have quite specific references to their, (or the earlier E93), use on the Orient Express in the 30's between Karlsruhe and Stuttgart and on to Munich.

regards
Kimball

Kimball is right
Even today you still can see (fully restored) Gators roaming the Alps as museum trains. Like here in Carinthia ...

Brand New, never run.
Jeremy found it and eventually he shall take ownership.

NN

Great pictures, John. I was interesting to see the cut-away view of the CCS800, and the short old tin plate crocodile. thanks John.

Hi John, thanks a lot for that rare cut-away picture on the Croc - great find !!!

This crocodile has been opened up for scientific research

You can see the main arteries, stomach, eyelids, etc etc. this example is housed at the river reserve in Western Australia.

P.S.
Just ignore the wheels, its on a mobile trolley.

Paul,3
I'm trying to do this for the last 2 weeks.
I've got a mystery short in my layout and it is driving me to the doctor with stress symptoms.

I'm trying each night to go one step further and in the past have gone 2 steps backwards.

What appears now I had 2 shorts, maybe one I've created since than another short I thought was a short turned out to be not a short.
With my tracks and extra thicker wires underneath the boards and all the connections to the different modules, it could take days unless I can isolate the culprit for sure.
Iv'e connected all the tracks and it was fine, forgetting some tracks are isolated from each other, the moment I've connected the wires underneath it, the sort came back and has been haunting me since than.

Doing it by yourself is another headache, every time you connect or disconnect something you have to follow its path and make sure, a.) nothing else is connected to it or b.) where is it connected to.
Thsi short just came out of nowhere and I've been improving the layout for the last 12 month without any problems.
I can't see that after 22 years and more suddenly the tracks are shortening.
So my attention will be more underneath the boards and figure out, the spaghetti junctions.
I may even connected the wires wrongly, the main wires are easily to recognize but sub wires may have been cross wired, which in itself is unbelievable because I've run the trains after any disconnections.

John

John

Truly amazing !
Gotta love that engine sound, the whistle, the rods cranking, braking screetches, etc.
Grateful if you can share with us how many function buttons were used in the sound generation.

I was brought up in the world of analog, but I have my first sound loco arriving soon !
A brown Croc of course - I can't wait !!

Regards,
John

Just as long as Carol doesn't blame me for it!