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Hi Guys, Here is my latest Purchase which has been on order since last year .The Engine is G Scale and it is the 65th year of the Harz railway which is in the Old East Germany. Which i give a big fat recommendation to Visit if you love a fully function Steam railway. I hope you like the pic .Babs

Today i received from MSL Swiss stock a mixture of Brawa and Trix hope you like them . Babs.

34C said:

Babz, you so have to tell us a little more about those interesting vehicles; date of introduction into service, are the one window compartments in a sleeping car, why is the sliding door open on the chilled milk churn car, did the open end platforms also have provision for a gangway between the vehicles?

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34C I have had to cheat a bit I am not very well at the moment so I copied and Paste the info I just bought them because i like them and are from a long gone Era. Babs

Although the SBB had taken over the American four-axle vehicles in large numbers and the wagons had proven themselves in operation , a decision was made in favor of a three-axle version when purchasing new wagons . After a while, the long car body showed severe twisting and deformation. The reason was the very poor running characteristics of the primitive, cradle-springless bogies. Even so, some remained in operation until 1941. In 1930, trains that consisted of four-axle vehicles were still running between Winterthur and Wil .
And the Elok
Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) series Ce 6/8 I "Köfferli" freight train electric locomotive. Execution in the early delivery condition. Fictional black basic color scheme with gray chassis and red wheels. With bar buffer, driver's cab doors on the front without windows and with transition plates, with sanding system, without wrong-way signal and without Integra-Signum magnet. Locomotive road number 14 2020. Operating condition in the 1920s.

Babz, you so have to tell us a little more about those interesting vehicles; date of introduction into service, are the one window compartments in a sleeping car, why is the sliding door open on the chilled milk churn car, did the open end platforms also have provision for a gangway between the vehicles?

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34C, Babz, others,
You will note that the look of those wagons Babz purchased is very similar to many products from BRAWA over the years.





(This last one, catalogue # 45064, is actually a model of one of the Swiss wagons)
Now I will make a disclaimer here, because I don't have my reference works to hand at the moment and I do not profess to be an expert on Swiss railway history.
However, in the early days of the Swiss railways, much of the rolling stock - both locos, passenger coaches and goods wagons were manufactured at the Maschinenfabrik Esslingen (a suburb of Stuttgart) who made the rolling stock for the Koenigliche Wuerttembergische Staats Eisenbahn. The KWStE was a forward thinking organisation and adopted several American practices including the use of bogies in passenger stock. Hence Babs referred to them as American four-wheeled coaches. They were not actually American, they were German, made in Esslingen. The first locos in Switzerland were often of Esslingen origin and I think the first locos employed on the Gotthard route were Esslingen built.
I'll do a bit more research and get back to you with more details. I hope this is interesting....
Someone else may refine these observations....
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Hi Alan Sorry for your loss. I am a little better from last week have Kidney problems. It was so bad I have not that kind of pain for a longtime.
Back to Trains The railcar from Trix is very nice. I bought when it first came out as i like that sort of Train.How is the Sound on the Piko is it any good as i have a few versions from different makes The Brawa ones inside are rubbish and they have run out of spares and they are not that old. P 's me off.
My LGB 2-10-2 Has arrived and the Sound and Steam/ Smoke is cool. I am using my Ecos 2 and it does it really well glad i bought it now.
The LGB loks that i have uses M4 MFX and as soon as you put it on the Track it reads the decoder and puts the F numbers up and stores them for me that is the business. Why i did not buy before i don't know.
I am having to send my Swiss Trix Elok back for replacement as the Headlight/ Tail lights are not working no matter what I try even with a master reset. This is the first time since Brexit that i have sent something back. It is not as difficult as it seems. I will let you know.
Take Care Buddy. Babs

I was posted to an RAF Signals Unit, in Berlin, a while back in 1980, for 3 years. Of course, this was before The Wall got breached and freedom of movement became normal across all parts of Germany again. It was an "interesting" time and a few people did manage to get in the wrong place at the wrong time, upon occasion, which inevitably resulted in a bit of an international flurry. Doing so was not, therefore recommended, nor were the occasional beatings [although not always] which might get landed on those who did so. Cue the 2 soldiers who, after a few too many beers, decided it would be a great jape to climb over for a laugh. They were treated as suspect spies and it took 3 days to get them back, in a state which would ensure that neither they, or anyone who knew about it, would attempt a repetition of the jape.

In this "convivial atmosphere", it was possible to go to the West on the British Military Train - The Berliner, for which the Berlin military units provided daily Duty Train Officers. Having done the Duty Officer several times a model would be good, so a new N Gauge, HN4297 Arnold The Berliner Royal Corps of Transport 4 Coach Pack, has recently been a welcome purchase. It all looks very nice, although at least one Coach will need a respray, in RCT Blue.

Of course they will need a loco to haul them and there is even a choice of 3, for each journey.
1. The Berlin to the wall section; Berlin Grunewald-allocated 1968-built DR 'V180' Class 118 318-5 1978.
2. The DDR section; Ludmilla 132 440-9, delivered new to DR in November 1976.
3. The Helmstedt to Braunschwieg section, as yet undiscovered and it may be a wide subject, as there were more locos to choose from.

I have found a couple of possible candidate models, but having read this Thread, it seems to me that some advice, on quality might be advisable.
Type 1. Fleischmann 721371 DR BR118 Diesel Locomotive IV (DCC-Sound)
Type 2. Brawa 132, TRIX 12589 DR BR 132 Ludmilla. Other makes may be available and seem to be rare.

You gentlemen have a wealth of knowledge, which I am not privy to, on the subject of European models. Would there be a preference for maker, for a sound DDR Ludmilla, class 132? Finding a N Gauge one is tricky, so I would rather not buy into a "pup". I would be grateful for any information on what is available and sources.

Julian