Ferieekspressen "København - Hamburg - Venezia SL" - part 2

 

ACME released multiple versions of the FS E.652 and so did Rivarossi. It took me a while to pull the trigger, but I got this one at a reasonable price:

ACME 60608 - FS E.625.039 - Ep V.

 

I bought the DC version and added a ESU LokPilot decoder:

 

 

Ferieekspressen "København - Hamburg - Venezia SL" - part 1

 

A while back, ACME released 2 carriage sets for the Ferieekspressen "København - Hamburg - Venezia SL". I wasn't able to find any pictures besides what is in the 2024 ACME catalog:

 

 

Here are the 2 sets:

ACME 55295 - 1x WRD (service car) and 3x Bc-t of the DSB

ACME 55296 - one WLABm 174 (Munich-Kassel bogies) and three Bcmh 246 (2x block brakemen, 1x disc brakemen) of the DB

And here's the train formation on Airtable:

 

I had everything except the engine, at least until recently! 

 

 

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 22/23 "Johann Strauß" (Köln Hbf–Wien Westbf) - 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:

 

ESU 59620 LokPilot 5 DCC Decoder - NEM652 8-Pin Interface

 

 

EuroCity 22/23 "Johann Strauß" (Köln Hbf–Wien Westbf) - part 2

With this formation, I had to find the appropriate engine: a DB BR 103. I was lucky enough to find Roco 72394 at an okay price:

 

https://www.roco.cc/rde/72394-elektrolokomotive-br-103-der-db-ag.html

 

 These are all the cars I need for the train formation:

 

I have one ACME 90126, therefore I need:

• ACME 90125
• ACME 90127
• ÖBB Bmz 73 from ACME 90125 or RailTop 32211, 32212, 32213
• ÖBB Bmpz 73 from ACME 90126 or RailTop 32221, 32222
• ÖBB Amz 73 from ACME 90125 or RailTop 32101 

 

 

EuroCity 22/23 "Johann Strauß" (Köln Hbf–Wien Westbf) - part 1

I recently purchased an ACME car set for the "Johann Strauß" train - I have one and I'd need to find the other two.

 

ACME 90125, 90126, and 90127

Here are several photos from the real train formation between 1993 and 1995:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/185503811@N08/49556368307/

https://www.facebook.com/100057333555342/posts/103-212-7-ec-22-johann-strauss-wien-westbf-k%C3%B6ln-hbfwien-westbf-27021995foto-pete/309087741012342/

https://www.bahnbilder.de/bild/deutschland~e-loks~br-103/843796/103-123-mit-ec-23-johann.html

 

And here's an example of the train formation on vagonweb.cz:

https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=22&rok=1997&lang=en

https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=22&rok=1996&lang=en

https://www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&kategorie=EC&cislo=22&rok=1995&lang=en

 

Z 24500 NPDC en livrée d'origine

 A while back, I purchased body shells of a Z24500 from Jouef, since the actual train set is almost impossible to find. I had the shells done to match the original livery. I then changed the body from a set I got with a livery I'm not interested in.

 

Prototypical EMU

Here are some pictures from the real thing:

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhhumber/5474243189/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/16412147@N08/8666123100/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/plzen242/49358365702/

 

Miniature Model 

Here's what I got made for me:

Here's the set I'm going to convert:

It's the reference Jouef HJ2122. It's the Métrolor livery for the Lorraine region. The body shell came with no pantograph, so I had to unscrew them from the Métrolor  body to the other one. It was very straight forward.

I added the two ESU decoders from Train Modelisme and some figurines as well. Here's the result:

 

Videos 

Interior lighting for Z 24500 - part 6 of 6

In the previous post, I successfully installed the ESU lighting strips in the intermediary car of my Z24500. Shortly after I removed the "old" LED strip from the two other cars thinking it would be now easy to upgrade with the ESU lighting strips.

I did the tear down and started looking into the ESU strips. As it turned out, there's very little head space in those cars because of the decoders and also in the upper section.

I left that project quite literally collect dust for many months, until today. As I was working on another Z24500 with the original livery, I came to the decision that I will not waste more time on that and gave up on adding the ESU strips.

As we stand today, that Z24500 has only the intermediary car with the ESU trip. I might, at some point, come back to it and reinstall the "old" LED strip. We'll see ....

 

BR 112 Roco - part 3

 As planned, I ordered a tiny sound decoder trying to make everything fit in there. I chose ESU 58820 LokSound 5 Micro DCC Decoder:

Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of how all of this fits in the engine, but it did! And I loaded a ESU sound project. A video soon ...

 

I then moved on to adding the details. Back with my BB 16500 Vitrains, I struggled quite a bit to add details and found that my pliers of low quality were not doing the job. I upgraded with Japan-made tooling ...

A couple of days later, I finished installing the details:

This machine is now complete!