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Here you will find a collection of interesting articles about N gauge! We have put together a small editorial team from a few editors from N-BAHNER, which was discontinued in December 2014 after 20 years, who are extremely knowledgeable about our hobby and regularly publish news, trade fair reports, instructions and much more here. Experts from the scene and employees of DM-Toys also report here in the blog. In addition, the N-TIME! a few test reports on the structure of this area. Have fun browsing!

Please understand that older articles are only available in German. We provide new information in several languages.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

Arnold's new train “The Berliner” RTC

Recently there has been an increasing number of vehicles from various manufacturers that date back to the times of the Cold War between West and East. A more recent example was the US Army's Minitrix tank cars, which were built in Germany. The latest example is the occupier train of the British Army of the Rhine (Royal Transportation Corps = RTC), which Arnold brought onto the market in autumn 2023.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

New Otmm 64 from Fleischmann

In December 2023, Fleischmann released a labeling variant of the Ed089. It is identical to the Otmm 64.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

New apron mail van from Fleischmann

As a trade fair novelty in 2024, Fleischmann presented a postal car in Epoch III in N, which was also delivered in December 2023. It is an apron mail van from the Roco heritage.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

The new Tal 963 swing roof self-unloader from Minitrix

In late autumn 2023, Minitrix delivered a set as a one-off series with four Tal 963 swing-roof self-unloaders (#18271). This is a new design of a standard freight wagon in N gauge. The wagons are labeled in Era IV and look as if they all came fresh from the AW. All cars have two platforms and type 931 bogies. The relationship to the Fad 167 (OOtz 50) can be seen on the chassis. The opening roof is reproduced, although in the original it can only be opened to one side. The wagons were built for all types of moisture-sensitive goods, such as: B. lime, coke or potash, but not for food such as grain.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

New makeshift luggage cart MDyge986 from Minitrix

In the 1950s, the DB was looking for new business areas. Due to the changed political framework, the country had grown into a north-south structure, where transport also had to be reorganized. In addition, there were changes in purchasing and sales habits that the railway wanted to respond to. This is how express freight transport was invented. Unfortunately, there were no suitable vehicles for this yet. The DB was faced with a two-fold dilemma: there was no money for new vehicles, but on the other hand, the DB had many vehicles from the war that there was no longer any real use for. They were the MCi-43 makeshift passenger cars. This is how the idea came about to build two of these vehicles together. The whole thing as part of a renovation program. After a few test cars, the starting signal was given for the series conversion.

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03/2024 by Klaus Kosack

New Ghlmmss [14.051] from Fleischmann's DR

A problem for the Reichsbahn (DR) in the GDR was the lack of large-capacity covered freight wagons, as most of the Gl came from the imperial era, along with a few Gl of the exchange type. They were old and worn out and repairs had become too expensive. From the 1930s to the 1950s, no new GLs were put into service.

Added to this was the emergence of express freight transport. In contrast to general cargo transport, express goods were loaded into baggage wagons or suitable freight wagons. The special feature was that this took place on passenger trains. General cargo wagons were normal freight wagons that were approved for speeds of up to 120 km/h. If necessary, they could also be used for the postal parcel service when postal vans were not sufficiently available, for example during Christmas traffic. The freight train mail cars were painted green.

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01/2024 by Klaus Kosack

New: Our translated blog

Hello Great Britain! Our blog will also appear in English from 2024. The German website contains almost 300 more articles!

Have fun while reading.

(This post also serves to create all the topics on which you can read posts in the future)

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