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Sunday, January 26, 2025

Ost-West-Express - Summer 1995 - Bruxelles-Midi -> Moscow–Belorussky

Here's my first video of a complete Ost-West-Express train formation! This is the original picture:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/157299819@N02/52329486814/in/photostream/

It nicely matches exactly what is provided on vagonweb.cz. I eventually managed to have every single passenger car required for this formation.

Description	Reference	In stock
DB BR 112	Roco 63555	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABmee	LS Models 48010, 48011, 48012	✔
RŽD WLABm	ACME 55136	✔
UZ WLABmee	LS Models 48023, 48211	✔
PKP WLABd	Roco 6200062	✔
PKP Bcdmnu	ACME 55055	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bdmnu	ACME 55135	✔
PKP Bcdmnu	ACME 55055	✔
PKP WLABd	Roco 6200062	✔

Here's the running formation:

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

D 1248/1249 "Saratov-Express" Berlin - Saratov

As I was browsing the production from ACME, I came across very colorful sets for the "Saratov-Express".

Prototypical train formation

There is a decent number of pictures on Flickr, and videos on YouTube and even a playlist. The great website Trains World Expresses has also a section on this train.

https://trains-worldexpresses.com/500/511.htm

https://www.flickr.com/photos/trains-en-voyage/17561769439/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141594386@N03/25774045248/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/141594386@N03/52455668590/

Miniature models

The passenger cars have been released in the last couple of years by ACME in three sets:

ACME 55149 3-piece carriage set of the D 1248/1249 “Saratov Express” consisting of 3x WLABm of the RZD. The paintwork and lettering corresponds to the Ep. V
ACME 55150 3-piece carriage set of the D 1248/1249 “Saratov Express” consisting of 3x WLABm of the RZD. The paintwork and lettering corresponds to the Ep. V
ACME 55152 2-piece carriage set of the D 1248/1249 “Saratov Express” consisting of 2x WLABm of the RZD, Ep V

ACME 55149-1 WL

ACME 55149-2 WL

ACME 55149-3 WL

ACME 55150-1 WL

ACME 55150-2 WL

ACME 55150-3 WL

ACME 55152-1 WLAB

ACME 55152-2 WLABm

There are a couple of cars that have been released as single cars:

ACME 52104 RZD sleeping car with modified windows for use to/from Kaliningrad
ACME 52108 Sleeping car WLABm of the RZD in current livery, Ep V
ACME 52109 Sleeping car WLABm of the RZD sleeping car in current livery, Ep VI
ACME 55139 2-piece sleeping car set of the RZD consisting of 2x WLABm in red/blue livery corresponding to the 90s, Ep V

ACME 52104 WLABm

ACME 52109 WLABm

ACME 55139-1 WLABm

ACME 55139-2 WLABm

I only found those 2 pictures of the models on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/83260132@N07/47081382742/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/83260132@N07/47133706061/

And a couple of videos while waiting for my own videos 😁. The first video is in Polish but seems to contain a lot of detailed information. I'll look into it closer later on.

It seems those ACME sets are pretty hard to find ...