The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Smurfy]

A lot of people do not like foreign things, even Northern Irish trains send them into a spin, which is so utterly pathetic to me!
I like to see how different countries have gone about solving the same problems regarding traction, and Germany was/still is one of the more interesting examples.

I also like Austrian, Swiss, Italian and Polish trains (purely because that's where I've been mainly).

Just pulling your leg! I wish we could have a TGV or Bullet network. However, I do find steam trains with red wheels rather painful to look at!

 

[Martyn H]

There's nothing wrong with some good German engineering - Maybach diesel engines and Voith transmissions - ooooh errrr! as in Hymeks, Warships and Westerns. I went over to Germany in 1984 to see the last of the V200 (Class 220) loco's. Our Warships were mechanically identical. Even managed to get a couple of footplate rides while there. And their Class103 electrics have to be one of the best electric locos ever built.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just pulling your leg! I wish we could have a TGV or Bullet network. However, I do find steam trains with red wheels rather painful to look at!

Red wheels are great! You can see exactly where you have to clean them!!

P.S. Yes, that IS me in Poland:

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There's nothing wrong with some good German engineering - Maybach diesel engines and Voith transmissions - ooooh errrr! as in Hymeks, Warships and Westerns. I went over to Germany in 1984 to see the last of the V200 (Class 220) loco's. Our Warships were mechanically identical. Even managed to get a couple of footplate rides while there. And their Class103 electrics have to be one of the best electric locos ever built.

I always liked the Electric locos like the class 103s, but I have especially nice memories of seeing green, blue and beige and red liveried class 140s, '141s '150s and '151s hurtling through the South German countryside on freights and of course, the occasional passenger service!

Also, I have always liked the class 155s, purely because they always looked so odd to me! and I remember getting hauled by many East German liveried class '143s after the fall of the Wall.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Not my pictures incidentally:

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

However, I do find steam trains with red wheels rather painful to look at!

Even this one?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Even this one?
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Only one of the greatest steam locos ever....

 

[TheDoctor]

Just pulling your leg! I wish we could have a TGV or Bullet network. However, I do find steam trains with red wheels rather painful to look at!

I like getting the High Speed trains down to Dover, largely because they're essentially a mini Shinkasen,

 

[Smurfy]

Even this one?
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Yes, and that one in particular. It's a minor abomination! Anyway, haven't they repainted the wheels black since that photo was taken?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Yes, and that one in particular. It's a minor abomination!

Seriously?

Anyway, haven't they repainted the wheels black since that photo was taken?

I doubt it, they are supposed to be red as per the original spec.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Seriously? I doubt it, they are supposed to be red as per the original spec.

Yes, Garter Blue livery! Only the later Experimental BR blue livery had black wheels (and removed valencies).

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

What MDB said^^^.

One of my favourite locomotive liveries.

 

[Smurfy]

Seriously? I doubt it, they are supposed to be red as per the original spec.

I fear you are correct, but red wheels are just so wrong. Best drop the Garter Blue livery so that the red wheels can be dumped! How about war time black? Will that work?

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I fear you are correct, but red wheels are just so wrong. Best drop the Garter Blue livery so that the red wheels can be dumped! How about war time black? Will that work?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How about war time black? Will that work?

Yes, I agree, it would make an interesting change on one of them, but have you HEARD even a fraction of the froth generated by The Flying Moneypit being painted the same?

Personally I find everyone getting into such a tizz over it quite frankly hilarious!