Notes

Happy New Year and all!

When it comes to model railroads, I already consider H0 (note that this is a zero, not the letter Ohh. Lots of people get that one wrong) to be too large, and the “Large Scale” ensemble with 45 mm gauge and ranging from 1:22 to 1:32 is, due to a lack of funds and space, completely out of the question. My father, however, has a nice (though not yet finished) garden railway.

This locomotive is an Aristocraft USRA Heavy Mikado (that’s a 2-8-2 in american/british and a 1’D1’ in german notation) in Rio Grande livery. With smoke and sound generator it is quite an imposing presence, especially if you lay the camera on the rails.

Interestingly, this layout uses LGB components only occasionally, a single used carriage is the only LGB rolling stock. The reason is that this locomotive here, including tender and DCC decoder with sound still cost less than some LGB passenger carriages. I never was surprised that LGB went bankrupt (and is now owned and operated by Märklin), I was more surprised that it took so long.