July 2025

The Baden tender locomotive of the Xb class, later designated the class 92^2-3, is on display on the photo table as a gauge 1 model from Kiss Modellbahnen Deutschland. An impressive steam locomotive in the first photos.

On the return journey from Martigny to Chamonix, the Mont Blanc Express offers more spectacular views. And a small station building is particularly charming. 36 photos.

We have to change trains in Vallorcine, as the Mont Blanc Express can only cover a short section with the aid of a rack railway. The gradient down into the Rhône Valley is 200 per mille.

Traveling on a meter-gauge railway through the French Alps in Haute Savoie is a delightful experience.

Come along and enjoy the photographic impressions.

If the substance of an old Gauge 1 model is good, it can still be refined and brought up to date even decades later. Bernhard Lindlbauer has reworked a 28-year-old Dingler model of the Bavarian 5-ton crane of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and equipped it with functional details.

Since the technical fundamentals of railways have remained unchanged for many decades, old regional railway chassis could be used to build work cars. Steiner Modellwerke took a similar approach with its gauge 1 models of DB X cars.

Colorful collections of cars and exotic locomotives are not uncommon on museum and tourist railways. But finding a large class 52 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn at a small French operator is a real surprise.

Photos of the Moha milk cars from Steiner Modellwerke for gauge 1.

Photos and a brief description of the 1 gauge models of the Steinhauser juice cars from epoch IV b, which have never been photographed before and are available from Steiner Modellwerke.

There are countless spectacular mountain railways in France and Switzerland. The Chemin de Fer de Montenvers is short but good.

One model will be delayed until 2026.

The headline may be interpreted in either way. Occasionally, good things from America have lasted for decades: freight cars.

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