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Thanks Aki. It explains well:

Transport buffer bar
The equipment of the snow throwers included a heavy transport buffer bar (800 kg) with pulling and pushing devices, which was screwed together with two U-iprofile beams protruding from the laterally protruding underbody during transfer journeys ...

Thanks, I was confused by the fact that it has front buffers.
I guess they must be removable. Otherwise the snow screw would not work, or not?

In the last video, who knows which locomotive is this?

Beautiful place to be. Thanks for sharing.
The island railway there is really fascinating. If I were not busy with already too many projects, I would be tempted to make a small accurate layout of it.

The "transalpina", as we call in Italian that line, was essential to the Austrian empire. It connected the heart of the empire to the principle port (Trieste). It was important for freight and passenger traffic. Most of the importance was lost after WWI and also after WWII the line was essentially ...

After almost 50 years of operation they still run.
When clean they have still pleasing look

I have used shapeways:
- brass, using the lost-wax process for locomotive shells
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- bronze, with steel powder sintering and bronze gap filling for chassis
- steel 316L with powder sintering for chassis
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Brass is ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8K23WHWSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS8K23WHWSM


It is very sad that the Regione Trentino chose to electrify the line of Valsugana.
Till no, the line run very unobtrusively and in harmony with the environment
https://www.photorail.it/covermese/coverNEW ...

I spent the whole month of November in Australia.
Among the many places I visited there was Byron Bay, where a group of volounteers has refurbished two 1950's railcars and converted them to solar power .
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The two aluminum NSWGR class 600 railcar were stripped of one of the two ...

Good initiative!
WIll be there and if possible bring the modular layout Italian-style we are building