Spitzenwald Timetable

I should be making KÖB Railcar 2.0 at the moment, but unfortunately the loft ladder is stopping me. You may recall that the loft in our new apartment now houses the model making desk, which is wonderful and I’m happily messing it up, but unfortunately the ladder to the loft (installed -at a guess- in [...]

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Steel and Snow

DB class 218 number 218 499-2 racing through the snow on the Teckbahn to Oberlenningen. I’ll write a full post on this journey soon. I’d make this my banner picture if it would only fit.
The colour version is here, but I prefer it in black and white.

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n-TRAXX

One of the nice things about German railways is that they still haven’t been convinced of the advantages of fixed train sets, so it is still quite normal to see rakes of carriages being hauled about by locomotives. I can’t help thinking this is far more flexible than having fixed rakes, because you can expand [...]

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Traction news

This morning I thought we could have a look at what is happening with local transport systems, which will make for a slightly wider subject than normal, and is another way of saying I’ve still not got very far with model making projects, mostly because of work.
Deutsche Bahn is going to replace their class 291/295 [...]

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2008: Year of the Krokodil?

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 [...]

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Eurotunnel

When you read this we will be on our way back from the UK to Germany, which is a good excuse to show one of the locomotives that made it possible for us to do this: Hunslet RA 36 1989 was one of a fleet of 144 locomotives running over the 180km network on the [...]

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Buzz Buzz…

I finally painted stripes on one end of G1 using the old method of putting masking tape on glass and cutting it. This was an experiment: the buffer beam will probably need rebuilding for the DG couplings I’m going to try and install over the next few weeks, but I figure that if I can [...]

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Brighter Day

Yesterday was a bit brighter, so I spent some time experimenting and taking model pictures with the card background. For (many) more views click on the picture. I was trying out different ideas for lighting and camera settings. That’s my excuse anyway.
By the way, I got a lot of ideas for this, including the basic [...]

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Good Omen.

The three model figures arrived this morning: I put one next to the Growler as soon as I could, and it seems that the loco isn’t far off. As G1 was built using a mixture of Oe loading gauge; woolly maths and guesswork I was quite relieved about this. As the lighting was marginally improved [...]

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Vision…

I’ve got a new camera at last, actually something I was planning to do long before the old one broke down. I was testing it after it arrived this afternoon, and of course I had to try out the macro function. So here is a progress picture of Growler one, warts and all, and just [...]

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