Voie Libre international JANUARY / FEBRUARY / MARCH 2024 - 116

January, february, march 2024 LONG-STANDING… … New Year resolutions! Our readership keeps expanding and our readers remain faithful. We are honoured but also obliged. Obliged to be ever more inventive, creative and thorough. We take care to apply all three of those qualities to each editorial board meeting, and I may assure you that at all levels of the magazine’s production process, these are our guiding principles. Our modeller-contributors, proof-readers, illustrators, our translator, our graphic designers and our entire commercial team, not forgetting the editorial board, all of us shall keep them firmly in mind. Thank you for your continued support, thank you for your comments, thank you for your active involvement. May our resolutions be lasting, and Happy New Year to all!…

You are not dreaming! This is indeed an 0-16.5 Magic Train set! For ca. 150 €, it contains an oval of track and a Christmas train you can install around the tree (even though this is more the time to be hoovering up the needles), And the transformer is supplied! The excellent driving mechanism of the attractive Stainz engine, smooth and silent, will ensure hours of trouble-free running, that should help inoculate children with the railways modelling virus. However, keep your dreams in check… We are not talking here of a comeback of the range, there is no sign of this set being followed by other references. The motion of the Stainz incomplete the ecccentrics and the Stephenson valve gear slide are missing -, which is hardly surprising at such…

Built by StEG in 1902 under number U 25 for the Bregenzerwaldbahn, it is produced here in Steyrtalbahn version, Garsten shed, with an overhaul date of 27/04/66, meaning Era III/IV, These engines generate 165 kW power and can reach 35 km/h in service. This locomotive is currently based in Bezau, on the tourist stretch of its original line. H0-9 Liliput has been producing versions of its well-known U class for many years, but these models do feature a few mistakes… Signature locomotives, they would deserve to be brought up to date by Bachmann/Liliput! In addition to a body whose engraving is obsolete and not always accurate, depending on the versions, the front and rear lamps are not prototypical. Dolischo had produced some proper lamps and supplied two turbodynamos, required on…

H0-12/H0-9 This is a model of a Bautzen 1932-built carriage based on the metre gauge Spreewaldbahn from March 1953 (transferred from Freitai-Hainsberg) until September 1970, when this system closed and the carriage was retransferred to the Harz. It is in green livery with dark grey roof. A bag of additional accessories contains what is needed to outfit the buffer beams, with a reproduction of the central buffer, of the couplingsd and of the brake hoses. This carriage is also available in 9 mm gauge. Jacques Royan TILLIG REF. 13986 PRICE OBSERVED: 45 TO 50 €…

Tillig has released two versions of the 4-wheeler carriages built by Linke Hoffmann Breslau in 1897, and of the 1897 Werdau composite/brake van. These units were originally built for the Spreewaldbahn. Regarding the carriages, do not look for brake shoes, they were unfitted, unlike the composite where you will have to fit the brake shoes. Jacques Royan H0-12 /H0-9 TILLIG REF. CARRIAGES 13907 AND 13908 VAN 13956 PRICE OBSERVED: 40 €…

Would you rather take the dog out or collect potatoes? With Merten ref, 0212589, it’s time to take Fido for a walkie! Four figures in contemporary clothing are walking four dogs. Each pet must find its master! H0 In the Preiser range, ref, 10605 is more joboriented, six figures in working clothes, in the 1930 to 1950 clothing style, are harvesting potatoes. The attitudes are perfect, the paint is neatly applied, you have everything here for vivid life-like scenes. François Fontana…