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: