At the International 0+1 Gauge Days in Giessen, Mr. Wildi showed me a prototype of a French freight car, and information about it is finally available because the pre-order period is about to end.

Lors des « Internationale 0+1 Gauge Days » à Giessen, M. Wildi m'a montré un prototype de wagon de marchandises français, et les informations à ce sujet sont enfin disponibles, car la période de précommande touche à sa fin.

Today, Spur 1 Austria will open its online store for the Prussian P 8, which later became the class 38^10-40 and 038. Foreign versions will also be available. spur1info already has the details. A surprise is part of it, too.

Aujourd'hui, Spur 1 Austria ouvre sa boutique en ligne pour la locomotive prussienne P 8, qui deviendra plus tard les séries 3810-40 et 038. Des versions étrangères seront également disponibles. spur1info donne déjà tous les détails. La surprise fait aussi partie du jeu.

Overhead lines are not very common on gauge 1 because they are not only expensive but also difficult to install and only vaguely resemble the real thing. For this reason, overhead lines are usually not used when operating electric locomotives, or at best, masts are erected. This is understandable because catenary systems are highly complex networks that require a great deal of expertise and enormous manual skill to install.

Jean-Luc Declerck from Belgium is a model builder who has set about constructing fully tensioned overhead lines and shows how he did it here in 99 pictures. He designed a prototypical SNCB overhead line for 1:32 scale.

Wunder has announced several self-discharging wagons that are already impressive as hand samples and are extremely inexpensive. Among them is an Otmm 70 in the SNCB version. 34 photos with all the details.

And again there are more 1 gauge novelties.

Modern locomotives need modern freight cars. MBJ Modellbau Jaegers has new colorful models under construction. Especially impressive is the detailed, 810 mm long carrier for 80 ft containers.