The newly formed Department of Lands and Forests Railway Test Facility recently received their first locomotive for testing: a German Gmeinder. It had just been released from the paint shop, and stopped by the test loop before continuing on to the letterer. The Department photographer was on assignment, so the great railway photographer himself was called upon to document this auspicious event.
Is that a narrow gauge locomotive?
ReplyDeleteYes, it's a Minitrains Gmeinder diesel locomotive. It's HO scale, and the gauge is 9mm, so it runs on N gauge track. I've seen the scale of these things also referred to as HOe, HO9, HOn2-1/2, and HOn30 (and I might have left one out as this is all new to me). It runs surprisingly well for such a small mechanism.
DeleteMR june 1958 Trackside Photos - Old #5 on the Eagleroost & Koontree RR
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A One Evening Project - Put Your Figures to Work! MR July 1957
Thanks! I'll have a look.
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