TEE RAe

 I was lucky to purchase the TEE RAe set ...

Prototypical unit

There were only 5 of those units and they were assigned to routes between Switzerland and Italy, with one route going to Paris - more details here:

• TEE Gottardo, Zürich – Milano
• TEE Cisalpin, Milano – Paris
• TEE Ticino, Milano – Zürich

https://www.flickr.com/photos/160979841@N05/52350769514/

Miniature model

My model was made by LS Models referenced 17021. I got the analog version and want to convert it to DCC Sound.

There are two sound projects on the ESU website:

But, when looking at the details of the available functions, it has a limited number of functions:

Especially on the lighting functions available on the notice:

I decided to open a car to make sure the lighting was already installed even though I bought the analog version, and great news, there's the lighting strip in the car:

We can even see that the destination panel can be lighted.

Looking at the units and notice, it seems that:

• Current is picked up from the two end cards
• Motor car, the one with the 4 pantographs, carries the PCB where to position the decoder and speaker

I'm now trying to find the original sound decoder from LS Models:

TEE Paris - Bruxelles - Amsterdam

 

Another post about train formation; this one about the TEE route between Paris, Bruxelles, and Amsterdam, also known as PBA. Those TEE formations had names:

• Ile de France
• Brabant
• Etoile du Nord
• Rubens
• Oiseau Bleu

Through the years, different formations were used for those years. I'm focusing here on the CC 40100 with the PBA Inox passenger cars. 

Prototypical formations

Besides one of my most treasured books about the TEE, I found little information online. I will write a new post if I found more ...

In the meantime, I found some interesting videos, especially considering most of them are from the late 80s, early 90s:

Model trains

Those two links provide good information on model trains available in HO scale: traintamarre and gamos81.

Here's what I ran today:

And a couple of videos: