Monday, November 29, 2021

Catenary maintanance car

Even on a freind's German layout, I can't resist an interesting piece of rolling stock. 

This is a Deutsche Bahn overhead line maintainence car. It's a Trix model, and very fienly detialed. The pan can be raised and the working platform swung out with the handrails raised. 

All in all, a nice, compact unit. Why don't we do this sort of thing in the UK? It all looks so neat to me. 

Quickly searching on the number brings up a photograph of the prototype. 

I think the model looks nicer, but I'd definetly have photographed the real thing if I'd seen it!


3 comments:

Andy in Germany said...

This is one of those moments where I'm reminded that what is normal for us isn't normal for everyone; these are not an uncommon sight in the region...

Anonymous said...

Definitely has a look of a WuM German railbus about it.

Luke Stevens said...

They were indeed based on the VT98 railbus.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB-Baureihe_701
Luke