Good model train pictures from John in Norway


John-Norway

John-Norway

Reg. member & NH fan
Hi all !

I have a few pictures of some of my favorite locos.
S-3-6.jpgE60.jpg


Have a look on a DB E60 with sound and electronic couplers
and a DRG S-3/6 steam with sound both from Fleischmann.

These will be two of the nicest European locos in my yard.

Later I will post some of my favorite US locosAll the best to all here from John in Norway
 
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Interesting how the steam locomotive looks quite similar to US engines but the electric is nothing like what was developed here! DB = Deutsche Bundebahn?
 
Hi Red Oak & Western and all of you !

DB = Deusche Bundesbahn, West Germany, today Die Bahn
DR = Deutsche Reichsbahn = East Germany after 1945
DRB = Deutsche Reischsbahn 1938-1945 2nd WW
DRG = Deutsche Reischsbahn Gesellschaft 1924-1938

Have a look at this "croc" it is actually an Austrian Crocodile class 1189,
but WW2 "imported" 7 or 8 of these into southern Germany and call them E 89
E89.jpg
The svastika on the loco is "faded away" !



All the best from John
 
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When I was a boy, I always admired Fleischmann HO models (especially of US trains) when I saw their adverts in US train magazines. But they were out of my ability to afford them. Thanks for the topic.
 
Hi from John !

Yes, I also remember that Fleischmann had at least F3/F7's locos from New Haven and Burlington (CB&Q)
They were also beyond my reach at that time. Not many years ago a company bought both Roco and Fleischmann.
Fleischmann are more and more into the N scale. But they still make some very few steam engines and
a few electrics as well in H0. I the old days the Fleischmanns were made of metal only. Some of the old ones
are difficult to convert to DCC, because of the have a 3-pole motor, drawing a lot of current, and of course you have to solder it in.

Her is a couple of US. locos in my cabinet:

UP-SW1500.jpgMILW.F7A.jpgC430.jpg

First a SW1500 from BLI, we use up to 20V DCC track voltage here, the BLI will switch it self off if the
track voltage is too high. This a nice model I think.

Then a F7A from Intermountain with ESU loksound, and ditto Bowser C-430 also with loksound.
The are all nice medels, but the Bowser and also a model I have from Fox Valley rides soo low on the
tracks that it touches the uncoupling Fleischmann tracks like 6111 or 6114. The Fox Valley is the worst.

Models of other U.S. brands like Athearn, Atlas(favorite), Walthers, Broadway/BLI, Intermountain, MTH (!), Bachmann, and
all European models rides perfect when you consider the distance between the loco trucks and the track,
with Fox Valley, I have got a ATSF GP60M with ESU-loksound, the distance are hopelessly low.

All my loco-pics show here, are taken with a 105mm Nikkor Micro lens, with a Nikon Df camera on a tripod.

A nice weekend to all !

from John
 
Hi there Milwaukee Road 113 !

To take the E17, E18, E19 first:

IIn H0 I have got one E17 DRG from Roco and 1 E117 from Trix.
1 E18 in oceanblau/begie, 1 green E18 from Roco
1 E19 in maroon and one E19 in dark ble from Fleischmann.
This is also one of my European favorite locos, with all 1'Do1' wheel arrangement.

EL8.jpg
Back to the E18 - which actually had a Norwegian sister, the EL8.

Norway had 16 of these which was manufactured between 1940-1949.
One of them in the old green color is preserved i the city of Hamar
on the state railway museum. That's the 8.2060 in the picture. It had also 1'Do1' wheel arrangement.
The rest of the locos was scrapped in 1988.

When a was a young boy, I could see them here at my small home town, first in the
green version, later in the somewhat red version. Mostly for passenger trains, but later
in its day also in local freight trains.

It had a 2828 hps max speed on 110 km/t = 68 mph.
It was later reduced to 100 = 62 mph. It was clear, that with the many curves on
the Norwegian system, this loco was known to "eat track".

The EL 8 was followed by the general usable EL11 Bo-Bo loco based on the Swiss Ae 4/4 1st verson.
It had 2200 hps and a top speed on 62 mph and was an excellent rider on curvy track, 41 was built.

The EL13 was the follower to EL11. It had also Bo-Bo but was bigger and heavier and had more horsepower - 3600 hp.
The loco was built from 1957 until 1966 and 37 was built. I also had a reputation to be a little rough
on the track, unlike the EL11. The weight of EL13 was 72 tons.

8 of these locos was for a time rented out to Ofotbanen sas shown i your picture.

Thats is some background info for you

All the best from John
 
Hoppsan då, hur kunde man glömma El8:an!?
Spent my fair share of hours around the NSB, while I was still living in Sweden, been to Trondheim, Narvik, just to mention two...

The El15 isn't bad looking either!

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Photo:Markus Tellerup
 
Hi again - thanks for the Swedish words as well.

I agree El15 is nice looking too, remember that the railroad from Narvik
goes directly into Sweden. Too far north for me. The distance from my home to Narvik
are approx 1526 km = 948 miles - by car.

All the best from John
 
John, almost every car and even loco I buy from ready-to-run HO model companies have couplers mounted way too low.

They will snag on switches. Every Kadee and Proto-2000 car I bought needed shims on top of the trucks. None of the magazine reviews of these cars ever seem to notice. Now I only scratch build or "kit-bash" as a result. I am done with 35 Dollar plastic cars that can't run properly.
 
Hi Charles Smiley !

Thanks for the post. Yes, the Kadee ( I call them Kadee as a general, not necessary the brand Kadee)
couplers sometimes go down to my switches and other things,
if I have problems to correct it - I clip them off.

Magazine reviews over here are sometimes paid by the manufactures or importers, they just
have to say nice things, many are biased towards those who pay them. If they say the things as it really is, they will be disfavored next time
they want a similar job.

But as a general rule, I thought U.S. locos and cars had made more problems on my small
layout than they really do. My Fleischmann Profi track is code 83.

For me with a small European lay-out (17x5) the things I have to consider before buying U.S. stuff
are:
- Minimal radiius should be at least 18 inches, preferably less.
- It is fully DCC compatible ? ( example MTH) (I have 5 different MTH's)
- Does the locos ride too low on the track ?

It is possible to talk with the manufacturer by mail, or have the manufacturer
just hired people to say that things cannot be done ?

All the best from John
 
John-Norway said:
Hi again - thanks for the Swedish words as well.

I agree El15 is nice looking too, remember that the railroad from Narvik
goes directly into Sweden. Too far north for me. The distance from my home to Narvik
are approx 1526 km = 948 miles - by car.

All the best from John
Click to expand...

My other home, is called Östersund, which is only couple or so hours away from the polarcircle, further up north than Anchorage in Alaska....
 
Hi all !

Another small sample on my little lay-out, which is not
finished.

I got many comments on the other thread when I told a little bit about my hobby.

This picture is actually not good, but will do for now.

JOJ_0722B.jpg

All the best from John
 
Hi logand sawman !

Thanks a lot for your comment. In the

Introduce Yourself

I have a also a tread in the above section, which contains
a schematic layout of the tracks.

By the way, I hope that you a fun with the trains and your hobby.

Here is another pix of my small layout, the reason why it is so
cramped with track, is of course a compromise between a lot of
things you have to consider, my strongest force is on the electric side.

Not finished by far ....

JOJ_0720.jpg

All the best for Christmas and the New Year from John
 
Hi all !

Since I saw the first Fleischmann H0 - NH loco back in the 1960-era,
I have some NH locos to show. It's of course the white/red/black McG color
who set it off.

As you can see, a DL-109 from Walthers Mainline without sound ( may be later)
This is the heaviest loco model I have got.

There is an Alco FA, FB from MTH, of course this loco is relatively small
when you just drive the A-unit but MTH says this needs 22 inches.
This unit has sound in both units. It does not like to drive over some of
my Fleischmann curve switches. I doubt people who say that this loco
is fully DCC compatible- my European controllers fail here, so I had to buy
a Digitrax Zephyr to my test table as well. (I also use it to program
stubborn Broadway Blue Lines and older Broadway Quantum/Paragon -
The newer Paragon 2 is no problem.)

Then there is a pair of H16-44's. Both from Atlas. the Orange & Hunter Green one
has sound, the other not, a perfect sound, perfect locos for my small layout.

This year in the last days of October, I and many of my Norwegian train friends
went to Utrecht in the Netherlands to visit Eurospoor 2015. This could
be one of the biggest model-trains happenings in Europe.

When that is said, only one dealer have a few US locos, I bought
the Green/Gold Alco FA here for 50 euros, and the McG 591 for 90 euros.

I have 3 more NH locos in order in 2016, a GP38 from Atlas(NH-CDOT), a GP18 from Intermouintain
and a RS-11 from Atlas. All with sound. Atlas have got ESU-loksound in their new models,
I like that.

JOJ_0744.jpgJOJ_0747NH.jpgJOJ_0746NH.jpgJOJ_0745.jpg

All the best from John
 
Hi all !

What was the thing who started me off, so I decided to
build a small old-fashioned "german-style" "circle-track" ?

This was the picture I saw in a Fleischmann catalog in 2008.

profi.jpg


This started my experiments wiith then the almost new AnyRail
program (from the Netherlands) where you could, design layouts with this track type.

The result as posted in my introduce thread but is reposted here for easyness:

FL-JJJ-operational-april2013.jpg

It is easy for a beginner to start with this track, the negative thing was the rather
expensive cost.

If I want to expand my lay-out later I have a lot of spare track elements.


All the best from John - closing in for Christmas !
 
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