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As someone who knows very little German (unfortunately I did French at school umpteen years ago..), you may not think I'm particularly qualified to review a book in that language, but the useful thing is that there is not a vast amount of text, but an awful lot of interesting photographs in this publication!
I saw this book, a 144 page hardback, recently published by "Eisenbahn Kurier", mentioned in the last edition of "Todays Railways (Europe)" and thought it might be interesting, so ordered a copy through Amazon (a lot cheaper) and got a copy for just under £19 as opposed to the (German) price of 42 Euros!
As the name suggests, it covers light railways in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and although you might think initially it deals with military lines, there is limited coverage of these and it actually covers a very wide spectrum of operations ranging from Autobahn construction through to forestry work, mines, industrial lines and major building projects.
The locomotives (primarily steam and internal combustion, though there are a few electrics) used on these lines are covered in detail with numerous works photos, pages from sales catalogues and advertisements etc. There is even a section on locos powered by producer gas plants (Holzgas) which would make an interesting conversion for a garden line, as there is a nice photo of a Schoma diesel converted to run this way with its own plant on a 4-wheel trailer.
Photos of the lines themselves are full of modelling inspiration and I would certainly reccommend this book to anyone interested in railways of 600mm to 750mm gauge.
A book that is well worth adding to your narrow gauge collection!
I saw this book, a 144 page hardback, recently published by "Eisenbahn Kurier", mentioned in the last edition of "Todays Railways (Europe)" and thought it might be interesting, so ordered a copy through Amazon (a lot cheaper) and got a copy for just under £19 as opposed to the (German) price of 42 Euros!
As the name suggests, it covers light railways in Germany between 1933 and 1945 and although you might think initially it deals with military lines, there is limited coverage of these and it actually covers a very wide spectrum of operations ranging from Autobahn construction through to forestry work, mines, industrial lines and major building projects.
The locomotives (primarily steam and internal combustion, though there are a few electrics) used on these lines are covered in detail with numerous works photos, pages from sales catalogues and advertisements etc. There is even a section on locos powered by producer gas plants (Holzgas) which would make an interesting conversion for a garden line, as there is a nice photo of a Schoma diesel converted to run this way with its own plant on a 4-wheel trailer.
Photos of the lines themselves are full of modelling inspiration and I would certainly reccommend this book to anyone interested in railways of 600mm to 750mm gauge.
A book that is well worth adding to your narrow gauge collection!
