I would be interested to hear if many people attended the Simplon event, if I had known an Ae6/6 was booked to work trains I would certainly have gone myself,...
I have put into this group's YAHOO PHOTO albums (R.A.Bowen) pictures of 10 RH locomotives. If anyone has photographs of the other two (and especially any...
... market. Perhaps it is not well developed. ... An excellent observation shared by me too..... -;) Perhaps the Size of the Nation, the Population Nos. and...
... event, if I had known an Ae6/6 was booked to work trains I would certainly have gone myself, but found out too late (must learn German this winter)....
... Friday lunchtime (following a stone fall with fatalities). The Cantonal road is also closed, but clearing of this is underway. ... Latest: www.swissinfo...
update
> The EW III fleet got two new coach types:
>
> AS 50 63 81-34 007-0 R4 Bö 09.12.05
> Bt 50 63 28-34 997-8 R4 Bö 21.11.05
ex A 013 and 006
In March...
I am looking for prints of paintings by artists of the Swiss Railway scene. Does anybody know of any of the calibre of Cuneo or Shepherd, etc.? Malcolm...
Sorry the answer is before the question, but Yahoo are playing around with their e-mail system and giving me grief. Answer : I know of two railway artists,...
I believe Jonathan will do "commissions" if you have a particular loco/bus (or whatever) you want painted. I have watched him work - I wish I could paint!! He...
... loco/bus (or whatever) you want painted. I have watched him work - I wish I could paint!! He usually attends Amberley Museum Railway Weekends (but not this...
... There's Gerald Savine of course member of the British Guild of Railway artist in which David Shepard is a Fellow. Gerald has painted various Swiss railway...
... The best known Swiss Railway painter is Ruedi Merz alias Loisl. Many of his paintings were published in "Loki". He also does paintings for your model...
Hi Malcolm: Some more for you to try: Steve Johnson www.brushlines.co.uk Loisl http://www.loisl.ch/ Gerald Savine http://www.geraldsavine.ukf.net/ Franz...
Today I met the first Post van with passenger stock number and CH-POST owner code 50 85 CH-POST 00 33 252-5 http://bahnch.railimages.ch/fotos/Post Markus,...
... There are now pictures of the removal of the Funicular cars and track and construction work on the website. Click on projects then railways. Steve....
A question concerning rack railways. On a railway with mixed adhesion/rack operations, how is power transferred to the rails? Are the cog and wheels attached...
... In which section? adhesion or rack? <g> ... This depends on the length of the rack section as compared to the adhesion section, but let's assume that the...
... Nice examples of a locomotives with seperate drive for rack and adhesion are the DFB steam engines. Krist -- krist.vanbesien@... Bremgarten b. Bern,...
... Indeed, Krist. Actually, most mixed steam engines have a separate drive, allowing for a gear to increase the speed and improve the continuity of load on...
... One of the reaons I ask is that, when visiting the Montserrat cog railway in Spain (which uses Stadler GTWs), I asked, seeing a track connection existed to...
The separate rack drive is very apparent on the Austrian Achenseebahn locos, which is rack and adhesion. see: http://www.achenseebahn.at/indexEn.html...
... The mode switch-over is certainly manual care with steam engines. With electric and diesel units, you will most likely find a mode switch which also takes...
... wrote: ... Well, according to Railfaneurope the max. speed of the FGC GTWs is 24 km/h on rack/ 45 km/h on adhesion. When you look at the max. speed of ...
Andrew Moglestue wrote:
> ... but
> more importantly, that the speed of the GTWs in adhesion mode is not
> much faster than in rack mode and so such a journey...
Max Wyss wrote:
> Actually, the Brünig Deh 4/4 units
Deh 4/6 you mean. They became De 4/4 by removing rack drive. Sic!
> have/had separate drives for
>...
... Ooops... shame on me. Of course, they are Deh4/6... ... I guess that at the time these units were built, that was considered sufficient, particularly as...
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