This is part of my small 70'-80's Lima,Jouef,Rivarossi collection. My wife took these pictures for me. She also photo shopped them for me. Ok here goes. Lima#1 I bought this on ebay not too long ago. It is a Swiss Federal railways electric railcar. It is a powered unit. Lima power units quite honestly suck. I think Lima's forte is their beautiful selection of colored Passenger coaches. Lima#2 This is a French double decked end coach. the prototype contains controls and head lights so this is used as the engine when driving the train backwards, opposite a powered engine. Lima#3 This is a SNCF/French First class Coach with baggage section. You will notice that all european trains share the yellow line above the windows to connote 1st class. My uncle sent this to me from Italy back in the seventies. I have no idea why he picked out french coaches.I suspect it is because he loved vacationing on the French rivierra. Lima#4 One of this years EBAY.It scores. This is a German Federal railways, DB, Baggage coach. Just to brag I only paid 7 euro's for this with the original box. I have not been able to find deals like this anymore. Everyone bids on stuff and runs the prices way up. I'm a cheapskate. [ August 28, 2005, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: traingeekboy ]
Here we go again. Lima#5 This does not have any national markings. I am not sure what this is. Another of my Uncles gifts to me when I was little. Possibly Belgian? Lima#6 A second class French coach. SNCF. I believe this is another of my 7 euro wonders. I keep looking, but now they sell for 20 euro's+. Lima#7 This is a french railways passenger coach on a highspeed train. Pre-TGV erafrom the seventies. Lima#8 This is the diesel power unit for the previous coach. the two units connect with a metal drawbar instead of couplers. There would be two of these head end units, one on each end of the train, so that it would not require turning any units or switching anything for a return trip. This is a dummy unit, the two I have posted were sent to me by my uncle. I also have a whole set of two end units and one middle coachwith one end unit being powered. they have seen a bit of use and not look this nice. I plan to take the guts from thepower unit and put them into this powered unit at some point. [ August 28, 2005, 03:42 PM: Message edited by: traingeekboy ]
Lima#9 This is a Frech 1st and 2nd class passenger coach. Once again, thanks uncle Giancarlo. Stourbridge has mentioned one of the trains he saw on vacation was hard to identify. I thought the paint scheme looked similar to this one. Lima#10 This is a German 1st class coach. Another 7 euro ebay score. Wish that vendor still had more but he was just selling his childhood trainset. Rivarossi #11 This is a Ferrovie dello Stato, Italian Federal railways, 1940's era 1st class coach. I used to see many of these even in the seventies. This is one of my favorite Italian paint schemes that has endured a long time. Though I do not know if it can be found anymore. European railfans have devised a roman numeral system for dating their trains. Era I,II,III,IV,V. This, I believe is Era III. Hope you enjoyed my european continent train collection. I have some more but they are disassembled having just gotten washed in the kitchen sink. [ August 29, 2005, 10:21 AM: Message edited by: traingeekboy ]
What a mixture you have there! Yes, the Lima #5 is a Belgian Railways one. I have ridden in these and they are not very comfortable! Luckily they were used mainly for short runs I think they have now all been phased out along with the locomotives which hauled them.
Here is a pic of a Belgian class 51 with a rake of these coaches, after they were repainted into the red livery. [ September 28, 2005, 04:25 AM: Message edited by: Alan ]
Was it one of this straight backed wooden slat seated wonders? I have ridden similar cars in Italy. Ouch they do smart.
Some used to be wood I think, others looked as though they had padded seats covered in leather-look plastic, if you sat down on them expecting padding, you go a nasty jolt
The class 51 were built 1961-63 by Cockerill, with a Cockerill/Baldwin diesel engine of just under 2,000 hp. They sounded great! Here is one at Shaarbeek depot (Brussels) in July 1997. [ September 28, 2005, 04:26 AM: Message edited by: Alan ]
A broadside view of one at Brugge in February 1996. [ September 28, 2005, 04:26 AM: Message edited by: Alan ]
I envy you being able to travel to those countries so easily. Your photo collection shows a nice variety of trains. We do road trips by car to visit various places here in the USA. For instance if we go see my wifes parents just outside Kansas city, it is a 10 hour drive from Denver. Santa Fe New Mexico, via raton pass, is about 6 to 7 hours. You guys are just lucky as far as i'm concerned. Out here in the west everything is very spread out.
That's what makes traveling all the more fun. Here you seem to be able to go forever and get no where. Else where you can go just a few miles and everything changes Both have there good and bad points depending on what you are in search of... I love where I live and I enjoy the places I travel... <a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Europe/aar.jpg"> </a><a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Alaska/aaw.jpg"> </a> <a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Europe/aay.jpg"> </a><a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Leadville_Colorado_Southern/abi.jpg"> </a> <a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Europe/aam.jpg"> </a><a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Green_Mountain_Railroad/aae.jpg"> </a> <a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Europe/aec.jpg"> </a><a "http://www.railimages.com/albums/Forney/abf.jpg"> </a> See what I mean...
here in Australia, it takes a day of driving, to get to a State border. and the state of Western Australia is the size of Western Europe with the poulation less than London!!
Hey, Darren, those pictures look great! Could you post links so we can see them in bigger size? My only pics were taken last year on an install in Germany, where the client wasn't ready, so we had some time for real travel So one day on a whim we decided to do what Alan does, and across Austria into Italy, to the little town of Tramin, where they make GewurtzTRAMINer wine, for lunch. Spaghetti, what else? To cross the steep mountains on the way there, one has to go over the Brenner Pass, where they take the trucks off the road and put them on a train, tractor and all, to deposit them on the other side.
Nice shot William Those Rollende Landstrasse trains are very impressive, and sound very different when passing, as they have VERY small wheels, on two 4-axle trucks per car
