The beginning of my
LGB virus
I started
with LGB on christmas 1982, as present of my family when I was 3 years old. I
got the Lehmann starter kit with
a freight
train. Stainz2, open freight car, crane waggon (as you can see on the pictures)
During the
christmas days there was chaos at our living room and around the big christmas
tree.
I got a passengerwaggon
from my grandmother, and another freight waggon from my second grandma.
After
christmas the train travelled in our bureauroom. But after my birthday in april
this room was too small, I got the
track sets,
so I had more track and the room was too small…and the PLAYMOBIL accessoires
grew up also.
So I went
in one of our cellar rooms (this room was larger than my first room !! ;-) ).
Where the
train is situated until today. During the years I got more and more
rolling
stock and the PLAYMOBIL population grew up to more than 400people today.
So I got
the 996001 steamloco, OEBB dieselloco and the DB 251 and in the 90’s I got my
first red modern
passenger
car of the Furka-Oberalp, a waggon of the famous Glacier Express of RhB, FO und
BVZ in Switzerland.
After our
trip to the original in Switzerland I got the RhB virus.
And on
christmas 1995 I got the Ge 4/4 II 615
“Klosters”,
meanwhile I
had the RhB dining car and the luggage car of the RhB.
In 1999 LGB
produced the new RhB loco of type Ge4/4III 641 “Maienfeld” and I got the train
set.
On
christmas 2000 the FO Panoramawaggon fullfilled my Glacier Express, so I had
two complete RhB trains,
the Glacier
Express and the Bernina or Heidi Express (or fast train).
And my
interest goes on…
You will
hear of my latest LGB and RhB activities here on my Homepage…
My model railway today
My railway
is supposed to be in Graubuenden/Switzerland.
So the
official railway is the rhaetian railway (Rhaetische Bahn, RhB).
Station
names are full invented by myself.
The track
is 30metres long. It is divided into 3 electric circuits.
engines: 7
2 electric
3 diesel
2 steam
passengerwaggon: 17
11 four axles
6 two axles
freight waggons: 23
8
four axles
15
two axles
switches: 10
electricity: 1x
51070/50110 5A/18 Volt
1x 50070/50060 2A/18 Volt
2x 50080 1A/20 Volt, one
for lights and switches
On track one there is manly freight traffic, on track 2 there you can mostly find the
passenger trains.
There is
one fast-train with Ge 4/4III 641 “Maienfeld” to Davos and a panorama
fast-train with a panoramawaggon
and
sometimes a 1st class pullman salon waggon and a dining car, for hungry
travellers,
this train
has the Ge 4/4II 615 “Klosters” as a powerful machine.
Freight
trains consists of OEBB (austrian
railway) dieselloco or the loco of the DB and a lot of different stock cars
like the big
ones of the RhB “Calanda Braeu” and “Valser”. Mostly all cars are inscribed
with RhB logos.
You can
also find a service train with a small orange SCHOEMA dieselloco and a MATRA
crane waggon.
As historic
trains you can “borrow” two steam locos, “DR-Harzquerbahn 996001” from Germany
and the “Stainz2”
from
Austria with different passengerwaggons.
The centre
of my railway is the three-track railway station called Koeln. Beside the track
one you can find the busstop
for busses
to Flims, Lenzerheide or St.Moritz via Tiefencastel-Savognin and Julierpass.
The freight
station is situated at the south part of the station. Here you can load freight
from trucks to railway and
the other
way around.
freight
station
When you
cross the “Bahnhofstrasse” you will reach the business center which is situated
in the old castle.
Here you
can find the POST, a travel agency, a jewellery, a sports shop and a motorbike
service station.
On this
side there is also a small supermarked “Volg”. Beside the castle you can find
the restaurant “Zur Post” with
typical
swiss menus and a terrasse. A cheese store is situated at the station parking.
You will
also find three privat houses in the middle of my railway.
shopping center at Koeln station
On the
other side of the railway station Koeln you will find the stop Koeln-Neustadt
in the middle of the pedestrian
precinct
called “Promenade” with a lot of shops, banks and restaurants. Also you can find
some parking spaces
and a bus
stop at the railway platform.
At the side
of my railway you can also find a wonderful one family house with big garden
and a garden house.
At the
right edge there is a small farm with lots of animals, cows, pigs, rabbits and
horses.
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