schienenkönig
I'm a tram enthusiast and have made trams Scale G
I promised to post some pictures from the event at the Tram Museum in Wuppertal. My problem was that I'm at a campsite with my scouts. A friend of mine runs the tram layout for our scouts. On Monday afternoon I came to dismantle the layout. I had a 30 min. go through the depot to shoot some photos.
This view show the little depot, where the models have been in.
This old VW T1 was worth a photo.
A good model builder is just making a Schwebebahn car of series 03, build in 1903. (Suspension railway) He is absolutly perfect with all the details of his trams. (A lot better than me.)
His father makes the following models. He makes them in G scale, but the measurements are not correct. They look like the original cars, but... He does it for fun and sometimes he sells his models away.
He make during a year a lot of models.
They have been in plastic boxes, so reflection comes into the photos.
The shapes of those models are not perfect, but they look very close to the original cars.
At first I started to build this tower car with a young friend. But he couldn't stand our jokes...
... and wasn't looking for correct measurements. So he decided to make it with an other scratch builder. Later you see other pictures with more comments on it.
Here a view to a new section in between the loop. The Cargo Sprinter is on test ride. May be, I make an 8-axle Wuppertal tram out of it.
Some trams on the tracks.
For the first time in service, Tram 266 with a trailer.
At loop 1 you see some action.
My self made work tram Track grinder 3241 from Wuppertal still alive in Denmark’s tram museum.
An over view with an other tram layout in the background
Loop 1 with parking lanes.
Back to the tower car. It looks good. Some details I would have made better. The colour is wrong. Too thick and too light. It shows a grey what the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke used in the 90. This Car was running in the middle 60.
625 was a meter gauge tram.
The model run on analogue, or RC controlled battery power.
Two work cars. Left Car 641 a 1435 mm gauge tram and Tower car 625 a 1000mm gauge tram. In Wuppertal we had both systems.
Some more impressions with work cars.
An easy build scratch build car 53 and trailer 425.
Tram 220 and trailer 485.
Tram 220 and 266.
Car 53 and trailer 422.
Some trams are waiting for next service.
Work tram 641.
Tram 266 and trailer 422.
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My friend Wilfried, right and me left having fun to run our trams. But mainly kids riding the models.
On a big kid and family event hold on a big park in Wuppertal, we did the tram layout again. With the tram we can't earn the money for the transport. So my scouts sold cake and coffe and drinks.
A lot of trams came into service on that day.
For running the tram the scouts made a tram cabin (is more than 25 years ago.)
In the sun the car are looking much better.
Me steering the overhead tram and a child running the analogue tram.
And our scouts are the instructors for the beginners.
The kids can steer the trams with this self made controller.
Even the youngest can do ot.
The destination signs saying; "Driving School"
And it makes a lot of fun,
Concentration is it all.
Arround the parking tracks tram 266 and trailer 485 are doing the best.
This freelance tower tram did first test rides. It is not ready yet.
An over view to our tram layout. I hope this report was not too boring.
This view show the little depot, where the models have been in.
This old VW T1 was worth a photo.
A good model builder is just making a Schwebebahn car of series 03, build in 1903. (Suspension railway) He is absolutly perfect with all the details of his trams. (A lot better than me.)
His father makes the following models. He makes them in G scale, but the measurements are not correct. They look like the original cars, but... He does it for fun and sometimes he sells his models away.
He make during a year a lot of models.
They have been in plastic boxes, so reflection comes into the photos.
The shapes of those models are not perfect, but they look very close to the original cars.
At first I started to build this tower car with a young friend. But he couldn't stand our jokes...
... and wasn't looking for correct measurements. So he decided to make it with an other scratch builder. Later you see other pictures with more comments on it.
Here a view to a new section in between the loop. The Cargo Sprinter is on test ride. May be, I make an 8-axle Wuppertal tram out of it.
Some trams on the tracks.
For the first time in service, Tram 266 with a trailer.
At loop 1 you see some action.
My self made work tram Track grinder 3241 from Wuppertal still alive in Denmark’s tram museum.
An over view with an other tram layout in the background
Loop 1 with parking lanes.
Back to the tower car. It looks good. Some details I would have made better. The colour is wrong. Too thick and too light. It shows a grey what the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke used in the 90. This Car was running in the middle 60.
625 was a meter gauge tram.
The model run on analogue, or RC controlled battery power.
Two work cars. Left Car 641 a 1435 mm gauge tram and Tower car 625 a 1000mm gauge tram. In Wuppertal we had both systems.
Some more impressions with work cars.
An easy build scratch build car 53 and trailer 425.
Tram 220 and trailer 485.
Tram 220 and 266.
Car 53 and trailer 422.
Some trams are waiting for next service.
Work tram 641.
Tram 266 and trailer 422.
---
My friend Wilfried, right and me left having fun to run our trams. But mainly kids riding the models.
On a big kid and family event hold on a big park in Wuppertal, we did the tram layout again. With the tram we can't earn the money for the transport. So my scouts sold cake and coffe and drinks.
A lot of trams came into service on that day.
For running the tram the scouts made a tram cabin (is more than 25 years ago.)
In the sun the car are looking much better.
Me steering the overhead tram and a child running the analogue tram.
And our scouts are the instructors for the beginners.
The kids can steer the trams with this self made controller.
Even the youngest can do ot.
The destination signs saying; "Driving School"
And it makes a lot of fun,
Concentration is it all.
Arround the parking tracks tram 266 and trailer 485 are doing the best.
This freelance tower tram did first test rides. It is not ready yet.
An over view to our tram layout. I hope this report was not too boring.
