PEMRC Newsletter "The Turntable" May 2022

Newsletter of the

PORT ELIZABETH MODEL RAILROAD CLUB Every gauge welcome!

May 2022

2016-08-Sandstone

IN THIS ISSUE: PEMRC Calendar

Committee

Thirst: building a water tower

From the Chairman

Travel to Sossusvlei by train?

Modelling from the Female Perspective Queen’s Jubilee Hornby Locomotive ROD Loco

Market Place Athearn brands

ROCO Model Railway Photo winners The Railway Children Return & LMS 4F

Immingham Docks, East Coast Leviathan

SBB 175 years old

Gallery

PEMRC Layout Visit

1

PEMRC Meetings/Workshops

PEMLS Event

PEMRC CALENDAR Date 23

April

May

1

2022

21

28

May 2022 May 2022 May 2022

Sun

June

5

2022

11

18

25

June 2022 June 2022 June

9:00

Workshop at Mike van Zyl 13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs PEMLS Public running day

9-13

P E Model Locomotive Society Londt Park, Sunridge Park PEMRC visit at:

9:00

Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park PEMRC layout visit at:

10-12

9:00

Graham Chapman 118 Adam rd, Charlo Workshop at Mike van Zyl

July

3

2022 July 2022

Cancelled since Mike is away

13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs

9-13

9:00

tba 9:00

2022

Sun

9

Detail

2022

Sun

14

Time

PEMLS Public running day P E Model Locomotive Society Londt Park, Sunridge Park PEMRC visit at: Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park PEMRC layout visit at: tba Workshop at Mike van Zyl 13 Lionel Rd, Walmer Downs

9-13

9:00

PEMLS Public running day P E Model Locomotive Society Londt Park, Sunridge Park PEMRC visit at: Mike Parsons, 18 Mowbray St Newton Park

COMMITTEE 2022: Chairman: Mike Smout

ma.smout@mweb.co.za

082 801 1347

Treasurer: Attie Terblanche

terblalc@telkomsa.net

082 532 3670

Clubhouse: JP Kruger

juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

082 321 2233

Editor:

pemrailroadclub@gmail.com

082 739 7679

Workshop’ & Shop: Mike van Zyl

carpencab@gmail.com

073 374 3280

Layout visits: Graham Chapman

chapman22@telkomsa.net

072 103 4625

Library:

Roel van Oudheusden

Pierre van Loggerenberg pierrevanloggerenberg3@gmail.com

084 802 3831

Subscriptions for 2022 are R500 p.a. for full membership and R100 p.a. for Country members.

EFT is preferred, but the Treasurer may accept cash.

Bank account: FNB Walmer Park, branch code 211417, Account no. 62386122057

FROM THE CHAIRMAN Firstly, to the Clubhouse.

After months of discussions and hard work ensuring that the proposed Clubhouse meets all the requirements for entry by the public to a temporary wooden structure, and having at last satisfied the Metro Planning authorities, the Fire Chief has refused to pass the plans as they stand. He requires further treatment of the wood as a precaution against fire and the cost of this process is something we cannot afford. As a reminder, we have always planned to build a modular wooden structure which (with considerable effort) can be moved to another location. This because there is no security of tenure on municipal ground and the low ground rent paid by Clubs can easily be raised.

Like it or not, the only way to go now is to build a conventional structure – concrete slab, cement blocks etc.

Following a chat with J-P who has worked with the architects all along, they have been asked to draw up new plans for submission. They have agreed to do this without any additional costs. As of 20 April, these new plans are now ready and the Club Committee will meet shortly to consider them. In order to keep a handle on costs the size of the Clubhouse has been reduced to 8m x 16m.

With a bit of luck we will get going one of these days. As a cautious optimist, I am beginning to think that the light at the end of the tunnel is NOT an oncoming train!

Secondly, to my other concern, Club Membership. We now have 12 paid up members. If you have not yet paid some or all of your 2022 subs, please do so.

All of the best, Mike Smout We do have a Club House!

Albeit a scale model.

This is the model built by Graham Chapman.

He also has a wonderful collection of wooden locomotives, coaches and other toys he has made all true to scale!

Well done Graham!

MARKET PLACE

Members can advertise their model rail related items here for free; All others pay a 10% donation of the proceeds to PEMRC.

Mike van Zyl runs the PEMRC Shop and assists Christopher Beling to sell the model railway collection of his deceased dad Mike Beling. Contact Mike van Zyl on 073 374 3280 to view and make your offer.

Contact Roel for any of the vast HO LIMA collection Megan Richards is selling of her late dad, Wayne Richards. The item lists have been sent to members on e-mail as well as to the WhatsApp group members.

Most SAR items have been sold but there is still plenty other rolling stock: Adverts: LIMA sale on Gumtree

TRAVEL TO SOSSUS BY TRAIN?

Plans opposed

Gerine (WE) Hoff

To see a modern train travelling between the dunes may sound far-fetched, but this plan of Laban Kandume, owner of Sky Eye Tours & Hospitality, has already received approval by the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Pohamba Shifeta.

Shifeta already granted concession rights to Sky Eye Tours & Hospitality in March 2020 for a “fixed helium hot air balloon and a motorized passenger transport system” at Sossusvlei in the Namib-Naukluft Park. This is on condition that the Monument Council has no objections, that Sky Eye Tours & Hospitality has an environmental clearance certificate (ECC) and that Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR) is involved. For the approval of an ECC, an environmental impact study (EIA) is required, which Green Earth Environmental Consultants is currently compiling. They recently released details about this in an information sheet.

As background, the information sheet mentions that Sossusvlei is a popular travel destination. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, between 1 000 and 1 500 tourists visited the vlei daily, which is over 600 000 tourists a year. The road from Sesriem to the Sossusvlei car park is tarred, but for the last 4km to the vlei, a 4x4 vehicle is required.

“There is no designated road from the car park to, for example, Dooievlei and visitors and the NWR vehicles follow the river. Meanwhile, the vehicle lanes are up to 50 meters wide, which has an impact on the environment,” according to the information sheet.

It is in light of this, that Sky Eye Tours & Hospitality wants to build a “modern transport service” allowing visitors of the future to travel the last 4km by train. The railway track will be built on pillars five meters above the ground. Walkways and platforms will also be placed on elevated decks “so as not to disturb the natural flow of the river”. Power for the train will be supplied by two generators, and a one-way trip will take about 12 minutes. At the end of the railway line, in Sossusvlei itself, the company wants to install and operate a fixed helium-filled hot air balloon. Tourists can then view the vlei and the dunes from up to 150 meters above the ground. A kiosk and restaurant is also envisaged.

Since the announcement of the project, resistance has been received especially from residents from the area and lodge owners. They describe the plans and the train as a disgrace that will negatively affect the unspoiled scenery. They argue that at a national cultural heritage sight like Sossusvlei, a development of this magnitude cannot be allowed to take place. The concern is that Sossusvlei will lose its natural charm

and flair. – eleuschner@az.com.na Getaway also published the story on 22 March; therefore not an April fool’s story, but do you want it to become a reality? Getaway article 22.3.22

THIRST by Hans van de Ven;

by Ron 't Hooft

Extracted from “Het Zijspoor” 2021-3 Newsletter of the Modelbouwvereniging Arnhem e.o.

A large tree is roaming on my job under construction. You know the technique: endless wrapping with iron wire and making side branches by twisting loops. But you're quick to misunderstand the amount of wire needed for a serious 1 scale tree. And how about patience and time? Somewhere halfway through the twist with binding wire, glue and greenery, the project got stuck. The now quite impressive half tree waits patiently until it can grace my track in all its glory. The groundwater level will drop considerably if that whopper starts the sap flow to grow all its leaves. Other matters demand their attention first.

Steam locomotives are also thirsty types. A little tender can take up to 20 to 30 m3 of water. So immediately after the construction of the signal box and Güglingen station, I conceived the plan to look for a nice water tower. I soon bought steam locomotive BR 50 and when it, weathered and well, made its first strokes in my attic, I knew for sure: my new modular track deserves a unique tower.

Faller’s, Vollmer’s, Auhagen’s and the like come in many sizes and variants. In the early 1970s, collector Bert Booden already managed to score about

fourteen

information

different

can

be

types. found

A on

wealth of his

site

www.watertorens.eu.

But I searched further. Until I got it: Bochmann & Kochendörfer GmbH - who doesn't know them - has a special example in the collection: the octagonal Bohemia. That seemed like a nice challenge to me. According to B&K, the basic model of this water tower has been built very often, but with many variations in design in terms of size and materials. That gave me the freedom to choose the finish as I saw fit. The tower had an average capacity of about 70 m3 of water, sufficient for smaller depots and therefore definitely suitable for my job.

Railway water towers have been around longer than water towers for drinking water.

From 1840 they were built along the track to supply the steam locomotives with water.

Drinking water towers date from several decades later. I sketch a side view on an A4 sheet, in which I indicate the different parts with letters. The floors, the intermediate floors, the windows. And I build straight-forward, completely against my principles without any frills and weathering, the H0 kit from B&K.

Then the big conversion begins (to convert the HO scale it to 1 Gauge). Multiply all measurements of the model by 87 and divide by 32. This makes it clear that my tower will not be 22.5 cm high, but 61 cm. And the diameter changes from 8.5 to 23 cm. Yes, my water tower is going to be a big boy, although in real life at twenty meters he remained decidedly modest. I draw each part enlarged on at least ten new A4 pages, supplemented with the letter from the first sketch and the measurements just calculated. I scribble notes about the desired thickness, the intended material and the required numbers. As usual, I build the walls from 4 mm thick MDF. I set the saw blade of my Proxxon table circular sawing machine precisely to an inclination angle of 22.50. The ground floor, the shaft and the cantilevered space for the water reservoir each require eight walls with their own width. Together with the mezzanine floors, my project is already starting to take shape.

Time for the windows. Experience has taught me that the most convenient order is to make the frames first and then make the necessary openings in the walls. So make moulds, especially for the four recessed windows halfway through, because they have a beautiful semi-circular top. And then get to work with the trusted Ever-green profiles, also to create the rod division. Jigsaw and files help me to make suitable recesses in the walls. Finishing touch Tamiya XF-67, Nato Green.

It will be clear that a water tower requires a sturdy construction. After all, in primary school we learned that 1 litre of water weighs exactly 1 kilo. And do you also have ready that fit in a cubic meter a thousand litres?

That is why the designer of the Bohemia has also paid special attention to the load-bearing parts. The brick reinforcements on the kinks of the octagon are checkered corner pilasters. Won't you tell the architect I left them hollow? Model building is mainly about the illusion, isn't it, and that way I could more easily match the pilasters exactly to the walls themselves.

The eighth wall around the water compartment was also a thing. There had to be an extension. Basically not a

very

complicated

thing,

just

a

rectangular bay window. But with a special

supporting

concrete

girders

structure.

protrude

from

Two the

building and a kind of double gate has been built on it with a window exactly behind

it.

And

what

about

the

consequences of the extension for the roof? In segment eight I had to cut out a triangle, on which the two roof parts of the dormer fitted exactly. Anyway, here the pictures should make it completely clear to you. It does look ingenious, if I do say so myself.

In the extension there is a staircase to get to the top of the reservoir. This in

connection with necessary maintenance and inspection. With the other walls, the space around the reservoir is narrow enough to walk through (also for inspection) but not to be able to climb up. The windows all around in the walls are fitted with a hinged window to let in fresh air (but no birds) to prevent condensation and thus rust formation. A reservoir should not freeze. The chimney is there for a stove that has to keep the temperature above zero.

The roof itself is not made of MDF, but of birch plywood. And you won't believe the roofing. At my work, buckets are coated. Compare it a bit with tectyling. This is done in a spray booth. At the end of the week there is a black layer of coating on the floor of the cabin. It looks a bit like agricultural plastic, but a bit rough on one side. And you know: a model builder doesn't throw anything away, can use everything at some point. In this case, to make the roof waterproof. Strictly speaking, not an urgent necessity. It is not such a disaster for steam boiler water if there are a few dead birds and rats in the reservoir (boilers do not get sick), which is of course unacceptable for drinking water.

That is why water towers on the railways are regularly open from above, in contrast to those of the drinking water network. The casing of the water reservoir is beautifully covered with a ship's deck with 6 mm planks; in the facade of the extension even a graceful double layer. To pre-empt questions, the green colour here is Olive Drab 73,608 from Vallejo. Does it work well?

Then the last jobs follow. Just some construction info. At a height of about sixty centimetres is a decorative stone border, which forms the transition between the plinth of the building and the tower shaft. This plinth is then made of hard masonry with waterproof cement to prevent the penetration of moisture. Above the first floor is a much larger concrete edge. This is a tension ring to absorb the splash forces of the tower.

The concrete floor under the water reservoir is called a drip floor. So I gave all three of them a concrete look with Heki 6600. All that remained was the masonry. Before that, as is often the case, I ended up at Joker-Nitzsche. They have fantastic textured mats in beautiful relief. But these fibrecomposite sheets cannot be cut. The teeth of the circular saw also break off spontaneously.

But Proxxon also has diamond saw blades with a diameter of four centimetres for its hand drills. By drilling the hole a bit to enlarge it I got it mounted in the small table saw. It sticks just high enough above the table top to give the wall plates the desired size.

Then the trick is to let the masonry bond continue nicely. Judge yourself.

The ends of the stone slabs have been touched up with a mix of Vallejo paints 70,956 and 90,981.

Compare the water tower below in G scale at the live steam meeting in Karlsruhe in 2013.

ATHEARN ANNOUNCES BRAND CONSOLIDATION Athearn Trains announced this morning that it will be consolidating its product brands. The company will now be using the Athearn, Athearn Genesis, and Athearn Roundhouse names for its HO and N scale locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, vehicles, and train sets.

“We listened to our most important focus group, you,” Athearn said in a press release. “Brands have been consolidated. New logos, new packaging, a new design philosophy. All done to improve customer’s expectations of the Athearn brand and make selling the product easier.” Athearn products will now fall under one of three brands.

This is the new logo for the Athearn Genesis line. The Athearn Genesis name will be used for the company’s premium line of models. This will cover steam and diesel locomotives, passenger cars, and freight cars in N and HO scales.

Locomotives in the Athearn Genesis line will have road-name and road-number specific details, a dual-mode SoundTraxx Tsunami2 sound decoder, and various light and sound features.

Passenger cars in the Athearn Genesis line will include detailed interiors, tinted window glazing as appropriate, and wire grab irons, among other features. Interior lighting is planned for future releases.

Among the features on HO scale Athearn Genesis freight cars are etched-metal running boards and crossover platforms where applicable and roller-bearing trucks with rotating bearing caps as appropriate. N scale Athearn Genesis freight cars will have body-mounted couplers and metal wheelsets that will operate on code 80 and 55 track.

The Athearn Roundhouse name will be used for entry-level HO scale models.

The line will include locomotives with a 21-pin NEM connector, light-emitting-diode lighting, and serviceable and repairable components.

Freight cars under the Athearn Roundhouse banner will be equipped with metal wheelsets and McHenry knuckle couplers. Train sets will also be a part of the Athearn Roundhouse line.

The sets will include a locomotive, freight cars with metal wheelsets, Kato Unitrack-compatible nickel silver rail, and a transformer.

The Athearn line will be used for all other products. HO scale models in the range will be locomotives (Digital Command Control sound decoder and DCC ready versions), rolling stock (separate, factory-applied grab irons; etched-metal crossover platforms where applicable; basic underbody details; and multiple body styles per prototype), and vehicles (fire trucks, semi-trailers, and intermodal containers).

In N scale, products in the Athearn line will include locomotives (DCC and DCC ready), rolling stock, and vehicles.

To commemorate the new brands, Athearn is offering FMC 50-foot combination-door boxcars with the new logos. The HO scale three-pack will sell for $99.99. The N scale two-pack will be priced at $59.99. The boxcars are scheduled for release in May 2023.

“We at Athearn welcome you to your new era of Athearn Trains and look forward to producing models for you for the next 75 years and beyond,” the press release concluded.

Athearn Trains offers this three-pack of FMC 50-foot combination-door boxcars to commemorate its new product branding. The cars feature the Athearn, Athearn Genesis, and Athearn Roundhouse logos that will be used for HO scale products.

These two N scale FMC 50-foot combination-door boxcars carry the Athearn and Athearn Genesis logos.

The boxcars, scheduled for release in May 2023, will have screw-mounted roller-bearing trucks, machined metal wheelsets, and body-mounted McHenry scale couplers.

For more news and products, click here.

Mini World Models Shop online and use this special coupon to claim your unique discount

PEMRC

member

MODELLING FROM THE FEMALE PERSPECTIVE Letter to the editor of the British Railway Magazine Guide to Modelling published in the April 2019 edition.

“As one of the minority lady railway modellers in our hobby, I found your March editorial most enlightening, particularly your first two paragraphs in which you described the broad spectrum of interest among us.

Within our own club, West Sussex N gauge RMC, we have exactly the spread of modellers you described.

While I like railways, I have very little technical knowledge and terms like prairie, Spam Can, DMU etc. just flow over my head. I, together with several others in our club, specialise in scenery and historic realism. We also have those who just like running trains on the basic modular layout which is set up every club night, or on the scenic modular layouts we take to exhibitions.

Others specialise in electronic gadgetry, remote control by PC or mobile phone, loco repairs, decoder fitting, DC and DECC systems, electronically operated multiple points or just using a rod or changing a point by simply pushing it across, and all other aspects too numerous to mention.

I stand to be corrected, but I don’t think that anyone in the club has every skill, but between us there is always someone who can help. In a male-oriented club, I probably need their help more than anyone.

My advice to all who enjoy any aspect of railway modelling is to join a club that makes you feel welcome.

We are predominantly, but not exclusively, modular and there are many opportunities for us to display layouts at exhibitions and chat to the visitors, which is constructive and rewarding. Some of our members often tease me that chatting is what I do best.

Exhibitions we have attended have been throughout a large part of England and as far away as Stuttgart, Germany. I am so glad that I took up this hobby in maturity and I’ll be forever grateful for the help and comradeship I have experienced from all our club members and exhibition visitors.” Gilly North.

Model railway wins best in show at international exhibition A wonderfully accurate model railway layout illustrating smoking bottle kilns of the past has won best in show at

Europe's

largest

exhibition of its kind.

This model sets out to display

a

working

Staffordshire

Pottery

prior to modernisation. It features smoking bottle kilns, an open cast mine, cramped

housing

adjacent to the works, and a funeral as life expectancy was short.

This layout features a very dirty industrial yard, a 3D style background and large brick towers which are all fitted with smoke generators. This effect really adds to the scene.

Ten members of West Sussex N Gauge Model Railway Club, travelled to Stuttgart in Germany for the 2017 International N Gauge Model Rail Exhibition.

They were delighted when Gilly North, the only female modeller in the entire exhibition, won the visitors’ choice award with her portrayal of the Staffordshire Potteries around 100 years ago.

Gilly, from Storrington, created the feeling of dirt and grime in Stoke-on-Trent at a time when it produced the finest porcelain in the world.

Club chairman Peter North, Gilly’s husband, said: “It features a working pottery with smoking bottle kilns, an open-cast coal mine, a canal and back-to-back housing adjacent to the works, together with a railway and coal train. There is also a funeral at a grave in the churchyard as life expectancy was very short, mainly due to lung damage caused by smoke inhalation.

“In her research, she found this sentence ‘on a good day, you could see the other side of the street’.

The visiting public liked it for its historical and modelling accuracy and the whole module is just 4ft x 2ft 6in.”

The West Sussex group was at the annual exhibition for the first time to represent the N Gauge Society, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. About 200 railway modellers from nine countries took part and many thousands of visitors attended.

Mr North added: “N Gauge model railways have a rail spacing of 9mm and are half the size of the popular 00 gauge railways but the detail nowadays in the locomotives and rolling stock is amazing. Some locomotives are digital and have computer chips embedded into their tiny structure. This international

exhibition was for modular railways, meaning that each modeller builds to a standard board dimension, so that they can be linked together to make large layouts. Most of the Europeans linked their modules together to form a huge layout stretching about 150ft x 50ft. The West Sussex contingent formed their own individual British outline layout of 14ft square.

Although much smaller, it attracted considerable interest and contained a new state-of-the-art fiddle yard, also known as a marshalling yard, which has taken about two years to construct and test.”

There were two competitions for best in show over the four days of the exhibition, one chosen by the exhibiting modellers and the other by the visitors.

West Sussex N Gauge Model Railway Club meets in Sompting Village Hall on the first and third Fridays each month. Visit http://www.wsng.co.uk for more information.

Same location in summer

Painterly afternoon light filters through the vibrant forests at Montreal Falls, at Heyden Ont., as Canadian National's trio of F40PH-2s with the sold out 16 car Agawa Canyon Tour Train rounds this iconic trestle on the former Algoma Central Railway on 4 October 2021. © Ryan Gaynor.

THE QUEEN'S PLATINUM JUBILEE 2022 Commemorating the longest reign in the history of a British Monarch, this Platinum Jubilee steam locomotive is based on the 2022 Severn Valley Railway temporary repainting and renaming of SR West Country Class 34027 'Taw Valley'. Boasting a striking royal purple livery, the locomotive marks Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 70th anniversary on the throne.

In a move that sparked worldwide excitement in 2022, the Severn Valley Railway commissioned the temporary repainting and renaming of SR West Country Class 34027 ‘Taw Valley’. A head turning purple livery was chosen to mark the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and her Platinum Jubilee year.

Renamed by public vote, ‘Elizabeth II’ commemorates the longest reign in the history of a British Monarch, and as further recognition of this historic milestone, the locomotive has been renumbered as ‘70’.

In partnership with the Severn Valley Railway, Hornby is proud to produce this representation of the locomotive, in a limited edition of 2,500. The SVR and Hornby are donating a proportion of the profits from the sale of ‘Elizabeth II’ to The Patron’s Fund which supports the charitable organisations across the UK and the Commonwealth for which Her Majesty acts as a Patron.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN Watch the film trailer as part of Hornby’s Signal box #70 episode of 24 April in the Hornby News segment, from 4’ onwards. The film will be released in cinemas in the UK on 15 July 2022. A very good production indeed featuring the LMS class 4F locomotive, available from Hornby as model #R30221:

Following from the Hornby train set launched in 1971 for the original film, the LMS Class 4F No. 3924 is a must-have for film fans and collectors alike.

A British 4-6-4T of the Railway Operation Div. (ROD) of the Royal Engineers has fallen into a canal on the Western Front during the 1914-18 war in France. It was part of an order of 40 for the Dutch State Railways (NS) built by Beyer Peacock & Co. in Manchester. UK. Fourteen had been diverted to ROD and were ‘inherited’ after the war by the French Nord Railways. The other 26 worked in The Netherlands.

1st and 2nd place winners in the 2021 ROCO MODEL RAILWAY PHOTO COMPETITION

SBB Logo history: 1890

1895

1905

1930

1938

1972

175 years Swiss railways On August 9, 1847, the "Spanish Brötli Railway" began operating between Baden and Zurich as the first railway in Switzerland. Since then, the railways in Switzerland have been on track with their customers every day. Today all Swiss public transport companies are standing together for a strong public service and ensure wellcoordinated connections between trains, buses, trams, ships, cable cars and mountain railways in all regions of Switzerland.

1847 replica in Zurich during1947 centenary celebrations.

The railways and public transport in Switzerland not only have a long history, they also have an important role to play in the future. The need for climate-friendly, comfortable travel and energy-efficient transport will increase.

A freight locomotive Re 420 from SBB Cargo and a passenger locomotive SBB Re 460 are unveiled in anniversary livery at the SBB workshop in Yverdon-les-Bains on March 9, 2022.

It shows a historic train on one side and one of the latest generation on the other. The two locomotives symbolize the connection between past and future. They will operate during the anniversary year and connect and transport people and goods throughout Switzerland.

Designs by Gudrun Geiblinger

The model railway manufacturers

Märklin and Roco-Fleischmann are the sponsors of the

two locomotives.

SBB CEO Vincent Ducrot says: “SBB connects Switzerland. Yesterday, today and in the future. Together with all Swiss public transport companies, we are taking the anniversary as an opportunity, not just the successful one looking back at the history of public transport, but also showing how it will continue to develop”.

Ueli Stückelberger, Director of the Public Transport Association, says: "It is important for the public transport industry to gain the trust of the public after Covid-19. Winning back customers so that they can quickly use public transport again as a means of transport. We are convinced that the importance of public transport will continue to grow in the future, because the climate goals will not be achievable without strong public transport.”

“By shifting freight traffic to rail, we are making an important contribution to climate protection and energy efficiency. To do this, we are gearing ourselves to the changing needs of logistics customers: even higher quality, more flexibility and speed and tailor-made transport solutions," says Désirée Baer, CEO of SBB Cargo.

The unveiling of the two locomotives marks the start of the anniversary year, characterized by five festival weekends. They take place from May to October in all parts of the country. With this, Swiss public transport is thanking its customers for their loyalty. At the public events, participants can experience all facets of public transport in Switzerland. To include, for example, open days or historical trips. Thanks to an anniversary day ticket from CHF 17.50, customers can travel

in

a

climate-friendly

comfortable way.

and

GALLERY Gudrun Geiblinger had done similar livery design for railway

company

anniversaries

and

ROCO-

Fleischmann and Märklin have produced them as models in both HO and N scale

Dream trains No shipping costs for combined orders of R2000 or more.

Shop online and fill your cart, even if less than R2000, then contact PEMRC Mike van Zyl, to combine your order with fellow club members and all will save.

Xrot 95403 and Gem 4/4 802 in Alp Grüm. R1633 with Allegra 3514 to Tirano on 5.02.2014 © Herbert Graf

Moon with 2622 metre Muchetta mountain and the Leidbachhorn on the left. The BERNINA EXPRESS is on the 4 hours journey over 196 bridges and through 55 tunnels between Tirano and Chur. © George Trüb

THE 65 M HIGH LANDWASSER VIADUCT

Ge 6/6 II # 704 "Davos", running for 54 years now, pulling the Interregio 1148 from St.Moritz to Chur over the 65 meter high Landwasser viaduct near Filisur on the Albula line. At the rear of the train are 3 mail containers on special low load cars.

During September 2018, the viaduct was "adorned" with huge flags (10 x 10 m) of Switzerland,

the

Landschaft,

cantons

of

Basel-

Basel-Stadt

and

Graubünden, which refer to an advertising campaign by Graubünden Ferien and the RhB and other partners.

Enjoy the images by Georg Trüb taken at various

times

and

from

different

viewpoints.

Aerial recording of trains crossing the Landwasser Viaduct. There are electric locomotive Ge 4/4 III № 652 with the Glacier Express train and electric multiple unit ABe 8/12 (Allegra) № 3515 with an Alvra train

Interregio 1121 of the Rhaetian Railway from Chur to St.Moritz is crossing the 65m high Landwasser viaduct with locomotive Ge 4/4 II # 631 and several standard cars type I from the 1960's - 8 Feb. 2021 Steam locomotive 2-8-0 type G 4/5 #107 of the Rhaetian Railway, built in 1906 is running through the 27m long Zalaint tunnel on the approach to the Landwasser Viaduct on the Albula line.17 Nov. 2020

Ge 4/4 III # 648 of the Rhaetian Railway, in the black publicity paint scheme for the news portal "Watson", is crossing the 65 meter high and 136 meter long Landwasser viaduct near Filisur, shoving the first train of the day from the Engadin to Chur, the IR 1114. The permanently coupled 6-car ALVRA trainset has a cab car At in front, and in the rear are two second class standard cars of type II near the locomotive.

Shortly after 7 PM on 6 Feb 2020, the red taillights of locomotive Ge 4-4 III of the RhB Interregio from St.Moritz to Chur draw a light trace over the Landwasser viaduct and through the short Zalaint tunnel between Filisur and Alvaneu on the Albula line. On the view point Nord above the tunnel is obviously another photographer evident by the red light there.