A quick video post for the weekend. This one shows some intertesting shunting operations on the preserved Dampfbahn Furkabergstrecke (DFB) near to their junction with the Matterhorn Gotthardbahn at Realp. According to the commentary the MGB have no turntable on their system, so when this white van needed turning they had [...]
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Swiss Micro
Posted in Dachsburg, MGB, Prototypes, video on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Think again (or: ‘Plan B’)
Posted in 1:55 scale, Dachsburg, Körschtalbahn, Sägewerk Pfeifle, tagged Plans, Sägewerk Pfeifle on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another week just flitted by and the weekend was busier than before, so I think that ‘plan A’ is unlikely to happen. I’ll keep working on locomotives and stock in this scale and I’m now thinking about what I’d like to build.
I like the idea of having a loco shed: It seems appropriate as I’m [...]
Railcar 1 Beginnings
Posted in 1:55 scale, Dachsburg, Körschtalbahn, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Scratchbuilding on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just to prove that the 5,5mm project is more than my online rambling and a few track plans, here is the start of the railcar, put together last weekend. Progress hasn’t been helped by me trying to make two of everything. I’m working on the theory that if I do this, I can wait until [...]
Plan A
Posted in Dachsburg on June 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The 5,5mm Association 2008 Layout design competition -which I’m hoping to enter- stipulates that entries should be “…55cm x 27.5cm, and adds: “…This gives a reasonable size for you to build a small working layout.”
Okay: here goes with ‘Dachsburg’ Plan A:
I’m assuming this would represent part of a bigger maintenance and stabling area for [...]
2008: Year of the Krokodil?
Posted in 1:55 scale, Dachsburg, Krokodil, Locomotive, Maschienenfabrik Ostfildern, Scratchbuilding on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the end of he last post, I was apparently under the English channel, inbetween the UK and France. We did all get back on time, and the journey was reasonably stress free (Except in Brussels Midi which is a black hole for information, and it appears, trains) and we will probably do the same [...]
Expensive
Posted in Dachsburg, travelling on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my discoveries around Bedale station was Unit 10: White Rose Models. Their main output is baseboards -mostly spirals- which are advertised in the model press, but I found that they also have a small shop selling all the bits and pieces that German shops don’t, and a second hand section.
This is bad [...]
Preparations
Posted in 1:55 scale, Dachsburg on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Preparation for the next project (provisionally known as ‘Koerschtalbahn: Dachsburg’) is well underway, and has been since I was half way through ‘Westerooge’: I bought as few bits and pieces in the UK, in the knowledge that I’d be able to take them back with me or post them: the problem in Germany is that [...]
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