Thankyou Marcus I still have very great difficulty getting these particular links to work - in fact almost never. Only by copy and paste have I any chance at...
Peter Heppenstall wrote:
> --- In SwissRail@yahoogroups.com, "Markus" <guerbetaler@y...> wrote:
>
>> 37 is said to have its HEP out
>> 36 got an additional HEP...
... Hello Heléna, yes, I've seen 11161 working on a Zürich - Schaffhausen train. Another source is telling, that 11156 red 11157 red 11158 green 11159 green ...
Glenn wrote:
> 'Swiss' Photos
> This time even Marcus was flummoxed......
No, these are not Swiss. But let's play the game ...
steam loco 2878_0483_ss
This...
Richard Bowen wrote:
> I still have very great difficulty getting these particular links to
> work - in fact almost never. Only by copy and paste have I any
>...
... HEP in the USA is more than just train heating. With HEP there are no generators on the cars for lighting, air conditioning (perhps not on British...
bob gillis wrote:
>>> What is HEP ?
>>> Is a referance to the American term of 'Head End Power' ?
>>> What we in the UK call 'Electric Train Heating' ?
>>
>>...
... not one of my slides, somehow it has come into my posession, the second one, well I think it has something to do with the Nene Valley Railway in ...
Swiss photos Found these 7 hiding in the wrong box. http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/glenn_rhb/album?.dir=/e7c8&.src=ph&.tok=phF5vLEBw02bYgua [Non-text...
... HEP in the USA is more than just train heating. With HEP there are no generators on the cars for lighting, air conditioning (perhps not on British...
... No. They have static battery chargers using the "Zugsammelschiene". ... Yes, and it always had (at least any vehicle built within the last 60 years) for...
Hello, The Oensingen - Balsthal shuttle is operated since at least last weekend with a train consisting of a BD 4/4 and a green Bt (of type uknown to me). I...
http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/glenn_rhb/album?.dir=3e66&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos This is copied straight...
... e=&p>rodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos ... You could of course use the following website to reduce the length of the URL ...
I look at the Filiser Web Cam every day ususally at just the half hour pictures which are the freight trains. I notice every once in a while there is a new...
... The triggering of the pictures is based on a certain amount of changes in the picture itself. The problem you noticed is: when a train just left the image...
... That is pretty much how the USA HEP system works. On New Jersey Transit the battery supplies only the emergency lighting and the Public Address system....
Can't see the problem with an image with no train on it. I actually quite like sitting at Filisur enjoying the peace and quiet when no trains are around!...
Hi all and happy new year I am just getting back into my Swiss railways and was intereasted to know if the RHB Bernina line was DC or AC powered as the units...
... The Bernina line is DC powered at 1kV. The DC catenary runs into the dead end terminal St. Mortiz, which has AC and DC sections, but the main AC/DC...
Good evening from Northern california, Recently I read a news item from Europe discussing increased rail traffic on an international line from Germany into...
The DC catenary runs into the dead end terminal St. Mortiz, which has AC and DC sections, but the main AC/DC changeover point is at Pontresina, where the ...
Good morning from Switzerland, There is an "official" website from the ETCS organization (which is part of the UIC): http://etcs.uic.asso.fr The Implementation...
al4303 wrote:
> Anyway, the article talked about a new control system, ETCS 2, that
> facilitated this traffic increase.
> Could someone explain this system to...
... Hmmm. I don't think so, at St Moritz the two voltages are separate, there is a gap in the catenery where there is a cross over from the Bernina line to the...