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 344/345 "Avala" (Vienna-Belgrade 1991)

A while back, ACME released two car sets to recreate the EuroCity 344/345 "Avala" from Vienna to Belgrade around 1991. There were:

• ACME 55074: 4-piece car set “Avala” consisting of 1x Alm and 3x Bl, Ep. IVb-V

• ACME 55310: 3-piece car set “Avala” consisting of 2x Bl and 1x WRm (Spiesewagen), Ep. IVb-V

 

It's a beautiful formation but it was lacking the locomotive V43 from MÁV, as shown on the box and catalog:

 

Piko released one at the time, but it was too recent as it displayed MÁV START which is a very recent name for the passenger service. The correct version just got released:

Piko 51447

 

I gave it the DCC address of 4365:

 

 

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:

 

EuroNight / EuroCity / InterCity

 

While creating the train formation from Vagonweb or from other sources, there are many formations from EuroNight or EuroCity, or even "named" trains. 

 

EuroNight

 

 

EuroCity

InterCity

 

Here are the links for further reference:

• Train categories in Europe - beyond EN, EC, or IC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_categories_in_Europe
• List of EuroNight trains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroNight
• List of EuroCity services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EuroCity_services and https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCity
  
• InterCity - list of IC trains in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterCity
• List of named passenger trains of Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_named_passenger_trains_of_Europe