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Wooden Large Scale trains

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#1

I’ve seen this written-up in the Swiss mag “Loki”, but this is a lot better. The dual track gauge is 80mm for the NG and 127mm for the SG. Scale approx. 1:11

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyboMQRhXRQ[/youtube]

The trains are made at a training institution for delinquent girls.

Stills:

http://www.erlebniswelttoggenburg.ch/ausstellungen/holzbahnen

The second part is on an old (1950s) 0 scale layout, this was owned and built by the father of a kid who went to the same school as I did. They owned a modern textile factory with a large space above the plant, perfect for the trains. I spent many a happy hour at that place a few hundred meters from my parents’ business

#2

Is that “Chattanoogs Choo Choo” in German? Pretty cool.

Doc Tom

#3

I tried using wooden track before, I had some major conductivity issues.

Did you notice on the wooden wheels the wheel treads are black? I wonder if they put metal bands on the wheels so they would roll better, and hold up better.

#4

Maybe rubber traction tires?

#5

Joe yea I was thinking that, but then I saw some of the rolling stock had them. Some, not all.

#6

H-J - This was featured in GR about ten years ago. I would have liked to have seen the Mason bogie in motion, but I cannot see the video as it is restricted to certain regions - and excludes me.

tac
OVGRS

#7

tac Foley said:

H-J - do you know of the large-scale wooden train models made in Switzerland by a disadvantaged group of some kind? I bleeve that it was featured in GR about ten years ago. They made a remarkable model of a Mason bogie loco, among others.

tac
OVGRS

This is the one, an institution for girls who have problems fitting/conforming to the “expected norms” of Swiss Society.

I looked at their website and found some more videos of items they built.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZSjelqusM[/youtube]

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q19xdzeeyo[/youtube]

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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwO-7h5P4bw[/youtube]

On a completely different note, but scale related. My cousin (a have many of them) and his wife are visiting. The special present are some Swiss baked goodies - filled with almond paste. They come in different sizes, the smaller ones two to a package and those were stacked in 1:10 models of SBB-Euro pallets

A very nice touch and much appreciated.

PS that exclusions is most likely related to the music that is used in the video.

#8

Meh, that’s a no-mind to me since I’m deef.

I’ll go looking on Youtube anyhow.

Besp

tac
OVGRS

#9

Here’s one more with Mason-Bogie action, from opening day.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4n_NsJEKo[/youtube]

#10

I CAN SEE IT! I CAN SEE IT!!!

Whooohoooo!

I wonder why?

Isn’t that just great? What exquisite crafthoodness, eh? And BTW, what is the purpose of the small single-axle truck-thing being pushed in front of the streetcar?

tac

#11

tac Foley said:

I CAN SEE IT! I CAN SEE IT!!!

Whooohoooo!

I wonder why?

Isn’t that just great? What exquisite crafthoodness, eh? And BTW, what is the purpose of the small single-axle truck-thing being pushed in front of the streetcar?

tac

Looks like the mount for a small camera. Yes Sir, it is really very nicely done, superb craftman errr I mean craftwomanship. For the blow-by-blow instructions for a small pump handcar try this

http://spur80.ch/wsb/data/documents/Bauanleitung_Draisine_2013.pdf

Sorry all the instructions are in German and all the dimensions in Metric i.e. it is a double challenge.

#12

Hans, lets see, there are 10mm in a cm, and 100 cms in a meter, but how many hands in a cubit?

#13

Google says 4.5 which would indicate not quite a decimal system.

#14

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

Sorry all the instructions are in German and all the dimensions in Metric i.e. it is a double challenge.

Keine rolle. Bei mir is dass ganz egal.

tac

#15

tac , it’s easy for you to say .

Mike

#16

Sea, tá tú i’gceart. Tugadh mé i’dteaghlach ina raibh labhair sé theanga ar bhonn laethúil [dhá Ceilteach, ceann amháin Semitic, dhá Rómánsacha agus Béarla]. Gearmáinis - nach bhfuil i bhfad ar fhadhb.

tac

#17

Don’t swear at me in Welsh , mate , or I’ll return the insult in Pidgin . (What dey spik where man blonga big bird from heaven bling gift of eaties to make change from local tribe blonga cannibal meat)

I speak no Welsh tac , but have no doubt that what you say above is kind , encouraging and up to your usual friendly standard .

Mike

#18

It’s Irish.

tac

#19

Well , there you go , shows how much I know----and like yourself , I went to bandit country .

Mike

#20

tac Foley said:

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

Sorry all the instructions are in German and all the dimensions in Metric i.e. it is a double challenge.

Keine rolle. Bei mir is dass ganz egal.

tac

Yes tac, I gathered a long time ago you have no problem with German, it was just to preempt one of the common complaints.

Apart from that, Google’s Translate has improved over the years. It isn’t half as entertaining as it used to be. And there are other “helpers” on the Internet who provide services when required.

Yes, you are correct (rightly). I was i’dteaghlach (family) language in which he spoke on a daily basis [two Celtic, Semitic one, two Romance and English]. German - not much of a problem.

PS My cousin and his wife are visiting and I’m getting a refresher course on one of the dialects spoken East of Zürich. We also had an evening of entertainment relating stories from long ago when doing service in the Swiss Army. There’s family history there: don’t let them get you, if you can get them. As mentioned many laughs.