Z-Freunde International e.V.

Thanks to organisers, exhibitors and all for these two very rewarding days. Rewarding not only for me: in 2 attended editions of Altenbeken I am very glad that I managed to increase the Italian presence four folds (this year I managed to convince two additional country fellowmen to fly in just for s...

Beautiful locomotive and beautiful model. Bravo!

Yes it does. In the front is H0, and on the second track visible it is N and the rest shrinks in scale. The layout is probably 1.5 deep but gives an impression of great depth and vastness.

The train on the bridge, as the boat on the canal, the vehicles on the road and the zeppelin in the sky are all belt driven. Loek Bronkhorst is a master of belts. You can see videos of his earlier layouts in previous RAIL and EUROSPOOR [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMp1gki2HMM] De blauwe t...

Today I visited OnTraxs for the first time. On the plus side: 1- location, the museum is rich and beautiful and it is in principle a very fitting environment for a model train show 2- 90% of the layouts on show were of excellent quality. As usual the layout presented by Loek Bronkhorst ( this time t...

I will be there on Saturday

Very clever Hagen!

It has negative side effects. The tender wants to turn over. That's why it needs a decent weight. Yes you are right, that is the effect I also expected. The torque fed by the motor to the locomotive will have a reaction torque on the tender which will impart a roll motion. Having said this, the ext...

...another possibility that I was studying was to have the motor in the tender feeding the wheels in the loco with a double cardan joint. This would have allowed the locomotive body (cabin and boiler) made of solid brass and hence have considerable mass. essentially like this FS-Gr421(ex KPEV G7.1)...

The KPEV G7.1, after the big war was present in many other European countries. In Italy 17 of them arrived and were integrated in the Gr421 class (see scalaenne ) I had considered the model of this locomotive and I deemed that with a 615s motor the model appears doable FS-Gr421(ex KPEV G7.1).png alt...