HLD 5114 with M2 passenger cars

 

New engines

 Coming back with some new engines:

DU 65 6.119 - REE MB-035S

241 A 004 Est - Trix 25241

Vectron RTB Cargo - LS Models 96100S

BB 22255RC - Base LS Models 11058S

BB 522263R - Base LS Models 11103S

BB 22352 - LS Models 11102S

BB 26199 - Roco 70857

BB 10004 - LS Models 10488S

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:

Test Stand

I bought rollers to have a test stand for HO engines. I bought a set of 4 and an additional set of 2 to cover both BB (4 axes) and CC (6 axes) engines. They are available at Miniatures Passion here, they come from DCC Concepts - link.

Let's see how it works:

The blue pieces without the wheels allow having a test stand at a different scale:

Let's see for a CC 40100 - 6 axes. This is Trix 22574:

And for a short video:

And now a BB 67300 - 4 axes. This is Lima 208011: