Large Scale Central

let's see your engines!!

Wow Matt, great shot!

Matt , that’s brilliant !

Mike Brit

That’s really sweet!

No picture of the complete roster, yet, but the list reads

RhB layout Grischun

Steam

G 3/4 11 “Heidi” Mogul (LGB)

G 4/5 108 Consolidation (Brawa)

Diesel

Tm 2/2 62 switcher (LGB)

Tm 2/2 91 MoW (LGB)

Electrics

Ge 2/4 205 (LGB)

Ge 6/6’ 407 “Krok” general purpose (LGB)

Ge 6/6’ 413 “Krok” general purpose (LGB)

Ge 4/4’ 607 “Surselva” general purpose (KISS)

Ge 4/4" 611 “Landquart” general purpose (LGB)

Ge 4/4" 612 “Thusis” general purpose (LGB)

Ge 6/6" 705 “Pontresina” general purpose (KISS)

H-J,

The topic title is “Let’s SEE your engines”. I don’t “see” yours (yet). :wink:

Joe Zullo said:

H-J,

The topic title is “Let’s SEE your engines”. I don’t “see” yours (yet). :wink:

They’re a-coming, don’t worry

(http://www.rhb-grischun.ca/P1a/Ge6_6_705.jpg)

Ge 6/6" 705 "Pontresina"

Ge 4/4’ 607 "Surselva"

Tm 2/2 62 (orange) and 91 (yellow) on a MoW train

G4/5 108

Thanks! :slight_smile:

Three more ready for picture taking but not in a thunderstorm/downpour.

D&H RS-3 # 908

Tac, not Shawmut, checked with Jerry yesterday.

This is an expertly created unit, one trait for ID is that the couplers are painted the gray as the body. Something keeps telling me I have seen this before?

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

G4/5 108

That is a great looking piece! Who made that?

Vincent D’Agostino said:

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

G4/5 108

That is a great looking piece! Who made that?

BRAWA, it was their entry into the LS (2m) market along with the matching passenger consist. Top notch stuff, the only drag was them farming out the drive train through ARISTO resulting in less than stellar performance for the first batch and for anyone who wanted to retrofit a decoder.

BRAWA issued a recall and fixed the problem on the basis of the DIGITOYS solution http://www.digitoys-systems.ch/cms/index.php i.e. a Maxon motor http://www.maxonmotor.com/maxon/view/content/index and a timing belt instead of reduction gearing.

Mine was shipped after they made the correction. Runs like an expensive Swiss watch.

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It’s a bit odd , I bought the G4/5 just before I got the set of 4 Brawa coaches , but the loco fleet number is 107 . I don’t remember the drive problem either . Senior moments ? I seem to remember that 107 has a belt drive to 1 and 3 Drivers .

I suppose I should look at it tomorrow in daylight (its 2140 here and dark)

Mike Brit

Yea, I remember seeing them advertized. I really liked the look of them and wanted one. Until I saw the price, E-Gads!

David Maynard said:

Yea, I remember seeing them advertized. I really liked the look of them and wanted one. Until I saw the price, E-Gads!

It’s the “quantity or quality” conundrum.

Mike Morgan said:

It’s a bit odd , I bought the G4/5 just before I got the set of 4 Brawa coaches , but the loco fleet number is 107 . I don’t remember the drive problem either . Senior moments ? I seem to remember that 107 has a belt drive to 1 and 3 Drivers .

I suppose I should look at it tomorrow in daylight (its 2140 here and dark)

Mike Brit

OK , Saturday ; broad daylight shows it to be a KISS model

Odd to relate , it has no maker’s name on it that is visible . It might have one tucked away inside , but it weighs a ton and would not take too kindly to handling .

Mike Brit

ps some of us have quality and quantity , nothing wrong with that .

Here’s the other steamer residing on RhB layout Grischun

The steps by the pilot axle were added when the engine was used for switching duties at Chur, one could call it the brakeman’s platform.

Two of the oldie electrics that followed the steam era.

In this formation they would often show up pulling excursion trains with an assortment of old coaches.

Or heading up a heavier than usual freight train.

Other than that it was light local passengers for 205 and wayfreights and/or local passenger trains for the Kroks. As mentioned before: era '69 - '75 on the upper Albula line.

Just arrived Ge 2/4 212

Perfect condition, she will see switching duty at both Samedan and Thusis.

PS the big V designates the front (Vorne)

PPS a few more to take pictures of.

Here’s a shot of my recently acquired Shay that I was asking all the questions about…

Here are some of mine.