EuroCity 72/73 "Smetana" (Wien-Praha) - part 3

I bought the DC analog engine, so I needed to equip it with a decoder. It's a 8-pin socket, so I used ESU 59620 DCC:

EuroCity 72/73 "Smetana" (Wien-Praha) - part 2

With this formation, I had to find the appropriate engine: an ÖBB Class 1014. As I was looking for the miniature model of that locomotive, I came across this video that explains the rather interesting history behind the prototypical engine:

 

 

Only Roco produced this engine and again I came across a page with the history of the model this time:

http://www.bahnwahn.de/rocooebb1014/Geschichte/geschichte.html

 

This is the model I was able to find - Roco 63610:

And here's the full formation on Airtable:

 

 

 

 

EuroCity 72/73 "Smetana" (Wien-Praha) - part 1

This first post is about the train formation itself. I saw the two ACME sets for it, but they were released exclusively for the OKvláčky.cz store in Czech Republic:

ACME 90167 + 90177

ACME 90167 + 90177

 

 And here's the real train formation from this link:

 

ČD 359 Západní expres

 

Here's my ČD 359 Západní expres running from München to Praha in 2019. 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmostrainadventures/40558916783/

Here's the original on vagonweb.cz.

In HO scale, it is as follow:

Description	Image	Reference	In stock
ČD 362		MTB HOCD362-040	✔
ČD Bdmpee		ACME 55293	✔
ČD Bdmpee		ACME 55293	✔
DLB ABbmdz		ACME 55199	✔
DLB Bmz		ACME 55199	✔

And here's the video:

New engines

 Some recent acquisitions ...

Piko 96315 DCC Sound

ACME 60190 & ESU LokSound V5 DCC

MTB H0CD362-040 & ESU LokPilot V4 DCC

Piko 96341 & Piko 56569

Piko 51957 DCC Sound

Roco 63555 & ESU 58820 LokSound V5 DCC Micro 8 Pin

ALX / Ex ČD 357/358/359 "Západní expres" Munich/Munchen - Praha/Prague

I came across two sets of ACME passenger cars for the ALX "Západní expres" and managed to get them at a reasonable price. So, let's investigate this a bit further ...

Prototypical train formation

First, some videos and pictures:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mureseanu_976/53240900206/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/superbock/53251259356/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukasp88/50918187122/

Miniature models

As excepted, we can find great train formations on www.vagonweb.cz; here's what I could find:

• https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/razeni.php?zeme=ALX&kategorie=ALX&rok=2023
• https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/razeni.php?zeme=ALX&kategorie=ALX&rok=2020
• https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/razeni.php?zeme=ALX&kategorie=ALX&rok=2019

 And we will look at this one in particular:

Icon	Description	Image	Reference	In stock
	ČD 362		MTB H0 362-040	✖
	DLB 223		Roco 73752	✖
	ABmz		ACME 52761	✖
	Bdmpee		ACME 55199.3	✔
	Bdmpee		ACME 55199.3	✔
	ABbmdz		ACME 55199.2	✔
	Bmz		ACME 55199.1	✔

 

 More to come soon ....

 

RegioJet

 

I came across a cheap-er set of passenger cars from ACME for RegioJet in Czech Republic. So, let's take a closer look!

Prototypical train formation

There is a decent number of pictures on Flickr, and videos on YouTube. Here are some pictures and videos of what I'm most interested in.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/deltacze/23974375844/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robokubo/7076047711/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31357997@N05/9354182002/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vaclavrouca/21436598593/

And a couple of videos:

Miniature models

As excepted, we can find great train formations on www.vagonweb.cz; here's one formation among many!

Icon	Description	Image	Reference	In stock
	Class 162 RegioJet		ACME 60310/69310 ACME 60317/69317	✖
	Bmpz		LS Models 18000	✖
	Bmz		ACME 55174.2	✔
	Ampz		ACME 55174.1	✔
	Ampz		ACME 55174.1	✖
	Bmz		ACME 55174.2	✖
	Bmpz		LS Models 18000	✖
	Bmpz		LS Models 18000	✖

Here's everything I could find on models for RegioJet.

Engines

ACME 60310/69310 & 60317/69317

Piko 21657

Piko 59591

LS Models 18000

Passenger Cars

ACME 52647 ASmz “REGIOJET” business/internet cafe

ACME 55174.1

ACME 55174.2

ACME 55174.3

For ACME 55174, we have the following cars:

• 1 voiture 61 81 21-91 069-8 Bmz à compartiments
• 1 voiture 61 81 18-95-024-4 Ampz à aménagement "business" avec compartiments et carré
• 1 voiture 61 81 30-90 021-9 ABmz avec compartiments et avec zones dédiées au stockage des consommables pour la restauration

For LS Models 18000, there are:

• Road Number 91 80 6193 205-2
• Road Number 85 20-73 004-4 - Bpm ex SBB 2a classe
• Road Number 85 20-73 007-7 - Bpm ex SBB 2a classe

I'll follow more closely ...