AMTP or Association du Musee du Transport de Pithiviers, the first tourist line in continental Europe. It’s a preserved 60cm gauge line in south of Paris. This line was laid on for commercial user, Tramway, but is mainly used for sugar beet transportation. A complete description could be found on the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramway_de_Pithiviers_%C3%A0_Toury.
Now some pictures:
A train along the road, with the setting sun. The steam engine is a Couillet 060T, here are some other pictures from this engine:
A view at the end of the line, ‘Boucle de Bellebat’
And at the station/museum.
Another beautiful engine, the ‘Crochat’ railcar, see here at the terminus.
The AMTP museum keep also some interesting engine like: an Alco 262T, a Meuse 260T, some Decauville steam engine and others like this KDL and the little Schneider.
Regards
Stefan
I’ve made a short video of my K1 Garratt struggling hard on the 1 in 28 ‘up the bottoms’ on the Pentewan Light Railway. As can be seen there is much scenic work to do. The K1 also needs more weight as it’s wheels are spinning as it moves out of shot – if any more wagons are added it grinds to a halt!
The video was taken on a small digital camera and all the sounds are from the loco (CT Elektronic SL51 decoder). No post production editing was applied – I wouldn’t know how to do it!
Please find a few shots of Little Wonder under construction and sitting at Dinas station for interest, together with some prototype shots. The prototype shots are courtesy of the Ffestiniog Railway official Archives.
Paul Holmes
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- Little Wonder at Dinas
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- Powered smokebox and motor/fan unit
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- Reed switches to drive powered smokebox
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- Updated photo of the newer – correct (I Hope) firebox
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- new firebox detail
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Le P’tit train de la Haute Somme is a preserved 60cm gauge sugar beet line (with WW1 military origins) in the Somme area of France. As well as steam and diesel stock it has an extensive museum with plenty of interesting 60cm/2ft locos and rolling stock (and some O14 models). A trip on the line is particularly interesting as the line has a Darjeeling style reversing zig-zag to help it climb out of the valley onto the plain above.
The society are also the publishers of the Voie Etroite magazine so there are plenty of current/back issues and other tempting reading material for sale.
Website: http://appeva.club.fr/index_e.htm
Railway museum with an extensive collection of 600 mm narrow gauge passenger railcars. The ÖSlJ operates traffic on two different lines:
- Traffic with steam on the 600 mm narrow-gauge line with locomotives and carriages dating from the period 1890-1925 between Mariefred and Läggesta junction, circa 4 km.
- The line from Läggesta and Taxinge-Näsby, circa 7 km, was relayed as narrow-gauge and re-opened in November 2011 giving a total round trip of 22km around the lake shore.
Wikipedia page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostra_Sodermanlands_Jarnvag
Official website: http://www.oslj.nu/index_en.html
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During a recent visit to the Le P’tit Train de la Haute Somme I spotted this superb little diorama in a glass case in the museum which I assume is O14.
Work is progressing with the Kerr Stuart Wren -
[image title="Kerr Stuart Wern" size="full" id="667" align="none" alt="First CAD drawing" ]
Some sample parts will be produced to prove some of the technical aspects before the design and details are finalised.
