3 Way.

So far in my German railway modelling, I have only used Peco Setrack, as it was what I had.

Yesterday, I was at an exhibition and bought a couple of Roco Line points for a bargain price, to see how they compare with Peco.

There's a whopping great curved point, but what really interests me at the moment is this 3-way. The curves seem to be about equivalent to Peco 2nd radius, but it could still form the nucleus of a small layout, perhaps in an APA box or similar. Not sure about the big boxes for switching on the sides; these incorporate springs so you can run against the point (may be useful) but don't look great. I'll have to investigate means of hidden actuation, I'm sure such exist.

James Hilton has recently featured a couple of excellent small European themed schemes for H0 on his blog, here: https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/2024/02/kohlenbachbruke-eastern-european.html and here: https://paxton-road.blogspot.com/2024/03/commission-european-secondary.html and although the track layout would be different, I think something of the same ilk could be formed around these few bits of Roco Line.

I already have a couple of German industrial locos, a Trix DHG500 6-wheeled Diesel and a Lilliput 0-4-0F; most rolling stock would be drawn from Schinkendorf's existing eclectic mix, some of which is probably pushing it a bit for a DB branch line anyway. 

What industry? No idea, yet. The Fireless is marked up for a sugar factory, though another idea would be a scrapyard as per Tim Hale's project, here: https://timhaledisposal.blogspot.com/?m=1

Later on yesterday, I popped into Gaugemaster at Ford and bought a couple of lengths of Roco Line concrete sleepered flexi track to make sure I won't run out(!) but what I'm using below are a few small bits that came as part of the set I bought my Köf III with. 

For an initial test, I tried a single Roco van plucked off the layout, and just pushed it through the three routes..it runs through beautifully.

So...it could well see use at some point in the future, though probably not before we've moved. Probably. 

A taste of things to come? Maybe...



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