Saint Denys-sous-Bois

This is my latest freelance SNCF based effort combining H0 and H0e. Located in my garage along one wall it is approximately 14' long and 2' wide at it's broadest. Unfortunately the garage is unheated so it has a winter' lay-off'. Last year I re-vamped it and introduced a narrow gauge feeder line - albeit with German and Austrian style stock, but one can always say that they were post-war reparations.......! Some scenic work has been done, but the main area for the standard and narrow-gauge areas has yet to be tackled and this will be the project for 2018.

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Hi Gary,
H0e is similar to 009 - only it is 3.5mm H0 scale running on 9mm track. I am hoping to get it looking a bit more French. My present indoor winter project is to convert an old N gauge layout in to an H0e system - I'll post that as and when. In the meantime, when I get a handle on posting more pictures, I'll get some on the thread.

Roger.

 

A Liliput 0-6-2T on a test run during the re-build of the station area.


The standard and narrow gauge fiddle yard end.



This is the main scenic feature left from the old layout before I re-hashed the track design - Chateau Gris !

Hope you like these pictures.
Roger.

 

As you may have gathered this is a dual gauge layout - standard and narrow. The two systems remain separate and I have not gone in to the world of interlaced track, although this is quite common in France even today, where narrow gauge remains . Operation is from a Morley twin controller - the whole system is analogue - the difficulty of converting some of my rather historic locos to dcc, never mind the fairly huge overall expense means analogue remains in charge. At the moment it is all very much work in hand following the major re-build last year and things are stopped for winter - the progress will start when winter passes and I can get in to the garage again . The track is all re-laid and working following the big re-hash last year and although the layout was in bits for a time, it didn't stop me acquiring a few more items to run on it in the standard gauge department. Here are some units that appeared last year. This is a Jouef 141P - unfortunately this view does not really show off it's handsome lines. This is a common class of single unit rail car - the livery is really a little too modern for my era, but after all, its my train set etc.. The boiler and chimney in the left foreground belong to a 130TC which is a German loco which was ceded as reparations after WW1 - the model is by Trix. This magnificent creature is a 141TC = a bulky powerful loco used on a steeply graded line in the South West region of the SNCF. This one has migrated to Saint Denys-sous-Bois as the days of steam become fewer, having been replaced by other traction.