Re: Modeling opportunities abound!

Hi,

To what genius did it occur to ship a railroad locomotive on a flatbed
trailer?

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Funny ;-)

Actually that happens all the time... When the Deutsche Bahn built a new
track to link the Munich central station to the high-speed-line going
north, they removed the track going in and out of Krauss-Maffei (now
Siemens) engine factory. As the factory is also doing a lot of "heavy
maintenance" they had to ship *all* engines in and out by truck (taking
large detours...). I'm not sure if this has been fixed by now...

At another point the factory mad a few engines for South Africa (which
has metre gauge). They had to be shipped by truck trailer and rail
trailer through half of Germany, then by river-boat to the North Sea and
on via ocean ferry ;-)

Have a nice day...

PS: The Munich engine factory built a large series of modern electric
loco's based on a design requested by Deutsche Bahn (DB) - which DB
didn't take, so they were sold to Austria. By now, DB has rented a large
number of them from Austria, because they drive their loco's into
disrepair. The joke is - they could have bought them in the first place,
but they rather pay more money to rent them, in fact they could save
even more money if they'd stick to the maintenance intervals... So
instead of saving money they pay much more now - and are probably the
only large railroad still trying to move to road transport... I'm quite
unhappy with them in general...
.