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Re: Furka Oberalp Loco at NMRA
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Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:23:32 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Steve Demlow wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Tim David wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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.
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. As a matter of interest the FO no longer exists, it has merged with its
end-on neighbour, the Brig-Visp-Zermat, to form the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.
Its title (Oberalp) had become a bit of misnomer anyway when they opened the
Furka base tunnel, more like the Furka Unteralp! I have to say I don't know much
about the Bruenig, might have to do some research.
One of my current projects is to build an MOB (Montreaux Oberland Bahn) loco
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/ch/narrow_gauge/MOB/eloc/mob_1.jpg It might be
a while before it sees the light of Brickshelf tho!
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> 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.
I look foward to seeing that!
Thanks for taking the time to reply
Tim
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| (...) 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. (...) (19 years ago, 14-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains)
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