Baby Deltic Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edcayton Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Don't know how the Swedish iron ore train got there, but I'm glad it did  Ed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Some more layout action here: Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backofanenvelope Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Thats amazing quality not just the video, but also the layout... T. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 4, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2012 Where'd it go - I'm just getting a blank space Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 That must be some of the finest track laying I've ever seen, going by the smoothness of running. A real tour de force of a layout! Thanks for posting, BD . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Excellent; a bit like Proof House Junction with a whiff of Gauloises. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Where'd it go - I'm just getting a blank space   Same here, just a blank space where the video should be!  Willy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodshaw Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Good grief! I don't know how people find the time, but I'm glad they do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 J'aime! Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted November 4, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 4, 2012 Same here, just a blank space where the video should be!  Willy  The links (as embedded video) have now appeared for me on the third time I have opened the thread - worth the wait Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 That must be some of the finest track laying I've ever seen, going by the smoothness of running. A real tour de force of a layout! Thanks for posting, BD . It's Peco code 75 but that's very close to scale for French main line trackage in 1/87. There's a lot more including tracklaying on http://www.biscatrain.fr/ and the wallpaper shot of the terminus is amazing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNCF stephen Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 A superb layout and the attention to detail is immense. I keep having to pause the video to look at the details. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baby Deltic Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 I like his track cleaner: Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted November 5, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted November 5, 2012 I could spend days looking at this blog! He has even extended the layout by adding new loops suspended below the existing trackbed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan452 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Awesome. Spent an hour looking at this last night. Â Â Just one little observation - one would assume the BB9200 hauling Le Capitole is likely to 'fry' under 25kv AC OHLE rather than that on its 1500 volts DC home territory? Â (On a more serious question.) Were the coaches for this train (circa 1967-71) built especially or converted from existing stock? Answers will be gratefully recieved. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I must be getting old. It reminds me of The Model Railroad Club's layout in Union, New Jersey a lot of lines all entangled together, giving me a headache looking at them! Brilliant, hard work but leaves me a little cold. Â Sorry to be a dissenting voice....very clever, though, but. Â Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Joseph_Pestell Posted December 4, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 4, 2012 Awesome. Spent an hour looking at this last night. Â Â Â Just one little observation - one would assume the BB9200 hauling Le Capitole is likely to 'fry' under 25kv AC OHLE rather than that on its 1500 volts DC home territory? Â (On a more serious question.) Were the coaches for this train (circa 1967-71) built especially or converted from existing stock? Answers will be gratefully recieved. Â Although based on the standard design, the carriages were, I think, delivered new for the service. Not long on the service before being replaced by the superb "Grand Confort" stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan452 Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 RE: Le Capitole - (UIC) coaches for this train circa 1967-71 (Prior to CC6500 + 'Grand Confort' stock.) Although based on the standard design, the carriages were, I think, delivered new for the service. Not long on the service before being replaced by the superb "Grand Confort" stock. Just done some more research in-to my original question and found this-: http://www.mlgtraffi...NCF_E_V_UIC.xml which looks to be of invaluable reference (for France in general). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Re6/6 Posted December 5, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 5, 2012 ....and there was me planning to sell all my continental stuff! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 .....Brilliant, hard work but leaves me a little cold. Â Sorry to be a dissenting voice....very clever, though, but. Â "C'est magnifique, mais c'est ne pas la gare.....?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Got a little bit worried when I saw the subject line, until I realised "Smashing" was being used as an adjective, not a verb! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 "C'est magnifique, mais c'est ne pas la gare.....?" Â Excellent. One of the best misquotes I think I've ever seen. I'll remember this one. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan452 Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Although based on the standard design, the carriages were, I think, delivered new for the service. Not long on the service before being replaced by the superb "Grand Confort" stock. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryD1471 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 I do like Horsetan's quote. "C'est magnifique......." Â It's one I have come out with from time to time and it's good to know that someone else's sense of humour works the same way! Â The layout is unbelievable; it wasn't until we saw some of the overhead shots that I could begin to make sense of the scale of it. Superb attention to detail and it makes me wonder how on earth the builder accesses some of the parts of it to work on it. Â The time period it's set in seems a bit flexible, but then I guess that it's Mr Barbut's train set, so he can do what he likes. Inspirational nonetheless! Â I still reckon that French railway engineers were the world's best; the GWR had to buy in some de Glehn Atlantics to acquire the best of current practice, Messrs Gresley and Stanier learned much about internal streamlining at the feet of Chapelon and Chapelons own 240s and the 242A1 remain unsurpassed in terms of power for size, not to mention Marc de Caso's several designs for large express Baltics. Â Back to the layout; it is magnificent and I am inspired to go back to the shed and get on with my own (much ) poorer efforts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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