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Re: Furka Oberalp Loco at NMRA
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:50:47 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
> Does anyone have any more info on the loco and train seen in the background
> of this shot?
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1292838
As Bill mentioned, it's mine, via the GMLTC members who made it to Cinci. I
didn't realize it was even there until today. The loco is indeed the well-known
Furka Oberalp from the Swiss Glacier Express route. The cars are from another
regional Swiss line, the Bruenig-Bahn (I think), that operates around the
Brienzsee. I snapped some pics of it at the Interlaken Ost train station. As
John Gerlach put it, "They just scream to be built out of Lego" with the
black/white stripes, etc. The cars are quite prototypical (except the
undercarriages - total guesses there); I built two standard passenger cars, a
dining car (yellow stripe), and a panoramic window passenger car.
Although I am an American my only experience as a train passenger has been in
Germany and Switzerland, so I enjoy building based on those experiences. We are
working on a Swiss mountain section for the GMLTC layout, which should be done
around 2007 at the glacial (ha!) pace at which we build.
On a totally different tangent, I didn't make it to the NMRA show this year, but
on my way back from Michigan a few days ago I did bump into the GMLTC members
who did - we happened to be at one of the Chicago Lego stores at the same time.
Not too big a surprise, I suppose - Pick-a-Brick calls!
Steve [GMLTC]
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| (...) I have to say I was quite exited when I saw it, I thought I was the only Lego trains person interested in Swiss metre gauge stuff! The loco looks good and I would have recognised it (maybe a little slower) even without the big FO on the side. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains)
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