#Modellbahn

[modern-train-enthusiast]

Fulfilled my dream from when I was 10 and got a BR442 yippeee

[mechanicsandmagic]

Useful little train appears!

[trainsinanime]

28 & 33

I started writing a reply and then Tumblr killed it, grrr… Let me try again.

28 is „Do you collect anything“ and 33 is „any hobbies“, and I’ll answer them together because the answer is the same: Model trains! In N scale, otherwise unspecific, from any country and any era that I find interesting. My collection is unreasonably large; I won’t give any numbers because I frankly lost count years ago, but it is growing. Currently I have three trains are preordered.

This hobby is not just collecting, though. I also hilf custom electronics for it (here a very simple example), and I build landscape sections for it:

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There’s another that I finished recently but I need to do some more cleaning up before I can take good pictures of it. Anyway, thank you for asking, as you can see I love talking about this!

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Die Wuppertalbahn im Modell - Von Dahlhaus nach Kräwinklerbrücke

The Wuppertal Railway was put into operation in several sections from 1886 to 1910 and ran from the Bergisches Land to the Märkisches Kreis to Westphalia and of course back again. The line was closed in the mid-1980s. The Reviermodule e.V. association has recreated a piece of this historic railway line on several modules. The journey goes from Dahlhaus (Wupper) to Kräwinklerbrücke. The station buildings and bridges are laser cut from cardboard. On the way are typical passenger and freight trains from the 1950s and 1960s. A special feature is a push-pull train, pulled or pushed by a V36 with a raised driver's cab. In overrun mode, the locomotive driver sits in the front sidecar and transmits the driving commands to the mechanical assistant via a bell cable. This operates the diesel locomotive.

[trainmaniac]

E186 012-8 NS by Voller MF Via Flickr: Minitrix Sound Epoche VI, Video by: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdOStSXXHDA

[joergius]

Überraschungsmodell 2023 / Dampflokomotive 18 201 / Märklin TV Extra Fol...

[brother-olbeas]

Dann brauchst du schon ne Modellbahn Anlage. Ich glaub sonst verlierst den schnell.

Ja Otto, das brauche ich unbedingt in meinem Zimmer!

[apas-95]

no yeah sometimes I go on the stormfront modellbahn forum just because yknow like its a good place to discuss O-gauge sets. you people are all so fucking weird about stormfront like come on the whole internet is racist, you've been on twitter. why do I go on stormfront specifically? oh I just like the culture there it's fun, the people are nice. yeah haha there's some funny in-jokes, like. well ah yknow I probably shouldn't say that one

[modern-train-enthusiast]

CD Vectron / BR 193 with Eurocity meets BR 442

[andysfantasie]

Du hast mir gesagt: "Nenn mir nur zwei Gründe, das Spiel mit der Modellbahn zu beenden!"

[reichsbahnfan]

Spur N Modellbahn...kleiner Clip nach gereicht...Eurodual mit Zuckerzug..😁

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Modellbahn H0 von Los Angeles - Ein schmutziger Rangierbahnhof wie bei G...

[trainsinanime]

Something completely different: Some model railroad thoughts. I do have a bit of an odd conundrum: For a model railroading project I'd like a lathe in 1:160 scale. Not working, just for putting inside a factory building. Ideally some other machinery too, but the lathe is distinctive and large and would be fun. At that scale it would be just a couple of millimetres tall and wide, maybe 1-2 cm long, so really tiny. That sounds kind of difficult. At that scale you can't see much at all, so the supply of N scale building interiors used to be very limited, because few people were mad enough to demand it. Is there any chance of getting this lathe?

Well it turns out the problem is choosing which one, because there are two I can buy literally right now:

The Modellbahn-Union design is clean and clearly polished and comes with a cart. I can actually get this one painted (order number MU_N-A50006) or unpainted (MU_N-A00006), but I'm definitely going with painted. They also sell way more equipment, which is really nice to really fill out my factory. Great! I thought it was crazy that I could even find a lathe in that scale at all, let alone that it was painted.

The other option is from British company Langley Models (set A143). It's a set with a CNC lathe, a drill press and I think a bandsaw… and I don't like it. This is cast zinc, and it comes unpainted, so I'd have to paint it all by hand. That seems annoying. Or maybe I get it anyway just so I have some machinery at hand if I need to fill more space? The more complex surface does look nice, if I'm being honest.

Two different lathes in unreasonably tiny scales. That's really cool.

But that's not enough.

Right now all the model railroad manufacturers in Europe are announcing their new items, and besides trains, locomotives, freight cars and the like to preorder, that also includes accessories. And German company Noch uses color 3D printing to provide entire scenes with people and equipment, like this (set 35904):

Look at that. People! Table! A drill press! Grinders! Welding cart! Anvil! And in the middle, a nice-looking lathe! Should I buy one of the existing lathes, or pre-order that set? The official announcement just says "2025", I might be waiting until December for this, which would be annoying.

And then a few days later dutch company Artistic released their news, including set 316.143:

Look at that. A giant lathe, with an operator, and a drill press and a cart as well. Artitec's stuff is all hand-painted and looks gorgeous and full of detail, and this is no exception. Fewer people and equipment, but it looks better.

And so at the start of this quest I thought, "hm, will I ever be able to find a tiny lathe in 1/160 scale for my model railroad?", and now I'm wondering, "which tiny lathe(s) should I buy and/or pre-order, there are way too many to choose from". I don't have a moral to this story, it's just interesting the kind of stuff you can find to buy for model trains.

(But the DB class 643.2 in Euregiobahn livery, which I see daily on my way to work? No chance. The base model hasn't been made since the early 2000s, and never in this paint scheme, which is interesting considering it's the only paint scheme they've worn for most of their lives. Urgh.)

[twosibold]

Modellbahn Union Fährboot-Wagen Tcefs 845 DB IV No.6