In the first, my Reichsbahn Reko BR58.3 pulls a tank car train around Papphausen. Loko by Gützold running via analog AC (Märklin) like everything else in Papphausen. I like Analog, and while tempted am not that into the digital that controls the rest of my life...
Here, a "day of watching a variety of trains running around Papphausen." Consists include S-Bahn, D-Zug, my 1950s DB bi-level pulled by a BR 23, Fliegender Hamburger, a mixed freight, and finally my coal train.
Time to start working on refreshing some of the scenery...
A first cab ride around Papphausen / Führerstandsmitfahrt rund um Papphausen in both directions. Note, speeds not always prototypical for a BR94. So, pretend it's whatever engine runs at that speed. ;-)
Camera (cheap "spycam" off of Amazon). Close focus not great, interface and instructions ok, but lots of fun to watch.
Papphausen has been tote Hose for years now, really, but after a very busy summer and early fall, I decided to take a break from the bookbinding and related writing and service commitments to instead decompress with some training. Long neglected, the trains were in need of a deep dusting and cleaning, and most of all just wanted to be run again. In need of some right-sized help, I asked Fritz Otto, and he agreed, getting in on the fun. In some respects, it was a very "meta" experience. There are a lot of bookbinding skills applied throughout the layout, particularly box making, as most of the structures are made of card, some kits, but most built from scratch using photos as a basis with photo-realistic pattern sheets, so we all felt at home.
Just a quick DR commuter train run-by while dusting.
A DR 118 (the Reichsbahn equivalent to the DB's V200/220/221) next to my vintage tin-plate TEE with the S-Bahn above.
Another view of the S-Bahn pulled by a 111.
A classic E10 express engine with a D-Zug of mixed rolling stock.
Fritz Otto surveying Pappeck in search of cobwebs and dust monsters.
Been experimenting with the GoPro and some different vantage points. Need to get better with the editing. I also use the GoPro like CTV on my phone for the far end of my switching yard. I can actually now see where the engine... is in relation to the uncoupler tracks. Game changing.
These past few weekends have been very enjoyable, I've been finding a nice balance between the bookbinding and the trains, and am getting ready to work on some scenes and structures in need of updating...
Documentary from the early 1930s about the construction and running of the first high-speed diesel railcar of the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft. The train connected Berlin with Hamburg at then unheard of speeds.
Pulled out a bunch of my old classic Märklin to run for a change – back to the basics for a while. 😃
The E03 with the TEE (the classic tinplate) was my childhood pride and joy.
An hour ago the E03 wouldn't run or gears move. For the first time EVER totally took apart motor, cleaned gears and brushes, AND even managed to put it back together...
SIE LÄUFT, DIE E03 mit TEE am Hacken.
My first Märklin train.
Running the switching puzzle. I've taken this to numerous trains shows — the kids love it.
Still more to do, but it's a start and most importantly, I'm having fun and really enjoying it. I've missed that feeling.
My father's childhood SE800 also got put on, but without traction tires (never had them) wasn't going anywhere. I have a version with though, too, so will run in spirit.
Due to bookish (bookbinding and writing) projects my layouts have languished and Shelob and her offspring have run amok, dust built up, and trains stopped running smoothly. Contributing to this were also ongoing accessibility/mobility issues on my part that made areas unreachable. Thanks to lots of quality time at home (almost 2 weeks) and familial help, Shelob succumbed to "Sting" and trains are now running again. I even enjoyed the experience and am looking forward to more and ongoing modeling projects. At one point I had toyed with "flattening" the layout, metaphorically and in reality to make it easier to reach. That thought was banished when I realized that rebuilding would be much harder than begging more regular "donations" of time for dusting...
While cleaning, took some time to explore areas I detailed but that normally are hidden due to facing the (removable) backdrop. Yes, there was "road work" to be done, in part to help the trolley run smoothly.
While coal required to power the steelworks was domestic, mined from the depths of the Ruhr Valley, iron ore was often imported and brought to the world's largest inland port of Duisburg by barge.
Family painting showing steelworks along the Rhein in Duisburg ca 1920s/30s
And below a short documentary about a load ore arriving from Sweden on a barge, the barge being unloaded and then reloaded with Ruhr coal for some other place. Includes a little railroad related activity such as a coal car being unloaded...
Diese Dokumentation gehört zu den seltenen Filmdokumenten, die eine
längst zu Ende gegangene Epoche besonders interessant wiedergeben. Der
Film zeigt den Duisburger Hafen in den 50er Jahren mit den seinerzeit
eingesetzten Schiffen und Verladegeräten. Die Geräte, die vor einer
Verschrottung verschont blieben, stehen heute als technische Denkmäler
in den Hafenanlagen und können bei einer Rundfahrt durch den größten
europäischen Binnenhafen bestaunt werden.
Die Bahn im Jahre 1958: In großen Zügen - Eine Studie über die arme, reiche Bundesbahn
The DB in 1958: A study in broad strokes about the poor, rich Bundesbahn
Video in German, but well worth watching
Eine Dokumentation über die Deutsche Bundesbahn in den 50er Jahren, kurz
nachdem der Trans Europ Express auf die Schiene gebracht wurde. Setzt
das Staatsunternehmen wirklich alle technischen Möglichkeiten der zeit
ein und kann der Spagat zwischen der Verantwortung und den
Beschränkungen des Staatsunternehmens und gleichzeitigem
wirtschaftlichem Handeln gelingen?
33000
Züge der Bundesbahn verkehren tagtäglich und würde man alle Güterwagons
zusammenkoppeln, käme eine Strecke von Hamburg nach Frankfurt zustande.
Damit ist die Deutsche Bundesbahn das größte Verkehrsunternehmer der
Welt und der Kreislauf der deutschen Wirtschaft. Seit Jahren schreibt
dieses Mammutunternehmen rote Zahlen, die einen meinen, es läge an der
gemeinwirtschaftlichen Aufgabe, die anderen sehen die Gründe in der
behördlichen Struktur des Unternehmens und am zum Teil widersprüchlichen
Bundesbahngesetz.
2 really nice English videos explaining the model railroad hobby...
From the introduction by Weslake500 at YouTube where these live:
Originally shown on Saturday mornings in 1975. Part of the 'Model World'
series of modelling programs hosted by Bob Symes. The last three
programs of the series were all about model railways.
For those
of us of a certain age, these programs hosted by Bob Symes, introduced
and opened up the fantastic world of models, and for me personally,
model railways.
I therefore consider it selfish to keep the now
aging vhs tape of these model railway programs (videoed some almost
fifteen years ago), to myself.
These model railway programs
along with childhood hero Bob Symes (who id still like to meet) remain
personally as fantastic and inspiring today, as they were all them years
ago as a child.
I hope you still enjoy them today as much as I still do.
Wonderful railway and urban footage in this 1927 silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann, co-written by Carl Mayer and Karl Freund. The film is an example of the city symphony film genre.[1] A musical score for an orchestra to accompany the silent film was written by Edmund Meisel. As a "city symphony" film, it portrays the life of a city, mainly through visual impressions in a semi-documentary
style, without the narrative content of more mainstream films, though
the sequencing of events can imply a kind of loose theme or impression
of the city's daily life.
In 2007, a restored version of the film was shown with the fully reconstructed original score by Edmund Meisel. The film was restored by the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in cooperation with ARTE and with funding by the ZDF. The restored version is based on cellulose nitrate copy from the archives of the former Reichsfilmarchivs which was augmented by footage acquired from the Library of Congress.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin:_Symphony_of_a_Metropolis
After what seems like years, finally cleaned the streetcar track and put the tram (at Düwag GT6 - bidirectional) back on. The model is by Rivarossi and represents line 305 of the Bogestra in Bochum/Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Here it is with an occasional intercity pulled by a 103, a 150 pulling limestone towards the steel mills and an 221 hauling a mixed freight.
at the Boothbay Railway Village Steam Course. See the main website by clicking on the image above.
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This is where I share my projects such as (card)modeling, weathering, railfanning activities, show reports, and other thoughts. Having a German focus to my model railroading interests and living in the US, I'll also translate occasional threads I think could be of interest here or in Germany.
