Hello again,
After foolishly (for my bank balance!!) unleashing a passion for German steam with a Minitrix DRG BR 03.10 in steel blue for the Rheingold I have now gone and done it again, with perhaps the most brilliant of all steam locomotive designs:
Minitrix 12249 - K.Bay.Sts.B. S 3/6 no. 3618 painted in a special blue livery for the Brussels Exhibition in 1910...
It is a fantastic model, with nicely darkened wheel rims and the new and much quieter motor in the boiler. After installing a C.T.Elektronik DCX75DN decoder in the tender and turning off BEMF it runs fantastically - so now I need some coaches to match, but of course none do as it was a special one off livery!! Presumably (hopefully!) the locomotive would have run around for a few years in this livery before being repainted into a shade of green and so would have been seen on most express trains in Bavaria at the time.
I think the locomotive would look super with the Minitrix epoch II Rheingold coaches but of course that would be an 18 year discrepancy at least (Rheingold Express only operated from 1928). Therefore going back to epoch I what would go with this? There are some other very nice Minitrix coaches from the correct time period, namely these:
But is there perhaps something more suitable out there? Most N scale is not in production at any time and searching through hundreds of hits in the spurweite-n database for K.Bay.Sts.B., or did I mean K.B.Sts.B. or perhaps KBayStsB or even KBayStB would be rather painful but I believe Fleischmann and Arnold would be the other manufacturers to consider?
This is pushing it a bit too, but I wonder if the 3819 in blue made it over the border to Salzburg and beyond, and what sort of train would it have pulled then? Any help with the models or the prototype greatly appreciated!
And to those who are umming and aahhing over a Minitrix S 3/6 (the new versions) then let me say that as long as it arrives with all the detail parts present on the loco or at least in the box then you won't be disappointed!
After foolishly (for my bank balance!!) unleashing a passion for German steam with a Minitrix DRG BR 03.10 in steel blue for the Rheingold I have now gone and done it again, with perhaps the most brilliant of all steam locomotive designs:

Minitrix 12249 - K.Bay.Sts.B. S 3/6 no. 3618 painted in a special blue livery for the Brussels Exhibition in 1910...
It is a fantastic model, with nicely darkened wheel rims and the new and much quieter motor in the boiler. After installing a C.T.Elektronik DCX75DN decoder in the tender and turning off BEMF it runs fantastically - so now I need some coaches to match, but of course none do as it was a special one off livery!! Presumably (hopefully!) the locomotive would have run around for a few years in this livery before being repainted into a shade of green and so would have been seen on most express trains in Bavaria at the time.
I think the locomotive would look super with the Minitrix epoch II Rheingold coaches but of course that would be an 18 year discrepancy at least (Rheingold Express only operated from 1928). Therefore going back to epoch I what would go with this? There are some other very nice Minitrix coaches from the correct time period, namely these:



But is there perhaps something more suitable out there? Most N scale is not in production at any time and searching through hundreds of hits in the spurweite-n database for K.Bay.Sts.B., or did I mean K.B.Sts.B. or perhaps KBayStsB or even KBayStB would be rather painful but I believe Fleischmann and Arnold would be the other manufacturers to consider?
This is pushing it a bit too, but I wonder if the 3819 in blue made it over the border to Salzburg and beyond, and what sort of train would it have pulled then? Any help with the models or the prototype greatly appreciated!
And to those who are umming and aahhing over a Minitrix S 3/6 (the new versions) then let me say that as long as it arrives with all the detail parts present on the loco or at least in the box then you won't be disappointed!