Ooh! Shiny!
It’s that time of year again, when model railway companies announce their products for the coming year.. Modelling Swiss outline in N gauge, two new models announced by Fleischmann are naturally of great interest to me.
First, the classic SBB Ae6/6. The full-sized locomotives are now in the twilight of their careers, but last time I visited Switzerland there were still plenty of them about. The first livery will be the Epoch III dark green dating from their introduction in 1952, but many of the survivors still carry this colour scheme in 2008. While there has been a Minitrix model of this loco available for many years, that model now very crude and dated by today’s standards. This iconic locomotive now looks like having the state of the art model it deserves.
And for something much more modern; they’re doing the BLS Re485, a relivery of the DB 185, which they’ve also done as an SBB Re482. This model is a limited edition for 2008; I can see I’m going to have to reserve one from my local model shop. It appears to be a repeat of a special edition they did a year or so ago for a Swiss dealer. If you model the BLS mainline, it’s an essential model.
It’s going to be an expensive year, I can tell.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Nice looking locomotives!
February 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Love the livery on the Re485
February 2nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
One of those liveries that works well on modern motive power, but doesn’t suit older locomotives at all. BLS have quite a few ex-SBB Re4/4iis, and have been painting those in the new silver/green/blue, and the effect isn’t dissimilar to One Anglia on a class 47.
February 2nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
[…] to my previous post about the new Fleischmann releases, here are a couple of photos of the full-sized versions, both from my Swiss trip in the late summer […]