Does 10kg mean they are gauge 1? They look good and the wheels look quite fine (good thing) but knowing nothing about the prototype or models I can’t tell how big they are.Collected these today, glad I did as they wouldn't have survived the post I don't think; they must be close to 10Kg a piece.
Yeah they're G1, sorry forgot to add that in the initial blurb. The wheels are not too bad actually, probably not ultra scale but certainly not Lionel 3 rail biscuit tins.Does 10kg mean they are gauge 1? They look good and the wheels look quite fine (good thing) but knowing nothing about the prototype or models I can’t tell how big they are.
They're German E91 class, very early Bavarian locos from 1925-27 but just kept plodding along until the mid 70's, mainly on local trip freights or more often as not, grinding long freights over marshalling yard humps, you can't get far at 34 mph top speed.Mick - I don't recognise these at all. What is the prototype? I remember an articulated electric loco when I visited Italy in around 1960 (I seem to remember it was brown) and saw a Crocodile or two in Switzerland but don't remember anything like these.
Brian
These Jack shaft drive locos are impressive. The brown one has a broken pantograph and buffer shanks, the buffers are easily glued back in but the pantograph really needs a new one, I'm struggling to find a Marklin spare if I'm honest. Once that's fitted it'll go up for sale, the green one is up for sale now but no takers yet. but the longer it sits there the less I want it to sell.Hi Mick,
Another aficionado of Altbau Elloks here! You could leave the era II loco more or less as it is and call it “preserved“, maybe with the addition of tiny but white modern running numbers,
My apologies, this is an EP5, later E52/152 as preserved at the Nuremberg museum in about 20014, I think. Also running into the late 1970s in Southern Bavaria. I don’t have wide angle lenses or anything so I couldn’t get the whole loco in shot, it was a touch cramped there.
Cheers,
John
Yeah, that's the ticket, the dirt always streaked a lot on these and the fronts were always bug spattered in the summer.Br 103 weathering inspiration... here's two of mine taken at Stuttgart in 1989.
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As an idea to give a sense of scale when photographing models you could always stand a £1 or 50 pence coin or better still a €1 coin next to them.
Unfortunately never, the local council outbuilding guidelines are quite strict, I'm already just under the maximum ground area allowed, by about 1.2m²So, when are you getting a bigger shed?
Whaaaaat??!! But Continental stuff doesn't get dirty!!! Everyone knows EU layouts are never weathered!!!Br 103 weathering inspiration... here's two of mine taken at Stuttgart in 1989
True enough. The fronts of 86s at New St were black with flies back in my spotting days. So was my truck in later years, summer nights especially.You don't see much of that these days, someone I was talking to the other day remarked on that, in the 80s trains were covered in dead bugs in the summer, now there's hardly any, visual proof that wildlife is declining...at that level.