Re:LGB railbus?
uhhh...i have a goody for those who cant decide.
But be careful, it is a bit dangerous with becoming "hooked on":
http://www.bahnbilder.de/name/einze...and~Museumsbahnen~Hartsfeld-Museums-Bahn.html < Link To http://www.bahnbilder.de/...feld-Museums-Bahn.html
A southern German narrow-gauge Railbus with SG-buffers for a "roll-on-roll-off between gauges"-circulation. No clue how its called in English.
another narrow-gauge railbus was modelled for 1:22,5 45mm looking quite the same. Mr. Diesener, former owner of "thiel-gleis" had one and it was a great pleasure to give it a ride......
The piko-railbus is -as far as i know- in 1:27.
NOONE really knows, why piko did this just because of ONE thing:
With this "trick" the standard-gauge models fit the LGB-Thing as well. But they dont match neither gauge II nor gauge I.
The "loaded railbus"-video is nice. Beeing empty, we shouldnt think the (prototypical) railbus wont make it. It had 2 engines and often enough they got a 4-axle express-freightcar to the railbus-consist.
the most common consist -btw- for a railbus is tiple: motorcar, car and forward-control-car.
but we met it as motorcar and forward as well. beeing on more than 3, mostly they got 2 motorcars. Sometimes the DB used a complete "Double-triple", a sixpack so to speak.
An for more:
if u are interestet in converting models to prototypical interesting OTHER models:
there was a racktrack-conversion of the DB railbus called 797 with forwardcontrol cars 997.
From outside they were looking just the same as a normal 796 or 798. Maybe interesting for those how have a racktrack.
More infos on that on www.zhl.de under "fahrzeuge" "797 xxx".
greetings
Frank
