Great Little Things
It's time again to let the great little things take center stage!
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The new year is still young, and many new models, miniatures and drives have been completed but not yet advertised. So, without any particular order or claim to completeness, we hope you enjoy browsing through the following articles!
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Üstra's first underground train! Hanover is currently celebrating one anniversary after another. Construction of the Hanover underground began 60 years ago – a project of the century and the largest construction site Hanover has ever seen. Just ten years after construction began, the first train rolled through the underground of the state capital in 1975!
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The first Hoobl! The Freiburg im Breisgau tramway, formerly known colloquially as Hoobl (wood plane), has been in existence since 1901, was electrified from the very beginning and is now operated by five lines in regular service as well as the vintage line 7. The current model replicates a railcar from the very first series of electric vehicles in Freiburg!
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The first „Salzburger Lokalbahn“! In July 1907, the ‘Rote Elektrische’ (Red Electric) connection from Salzburg Local Railway Station to Drachenloch station was opened, and shortly afterwards the section of the line from the German border was electrified. As early as its first year of operation, 15 passenger cars were in service. However, the city and local railway also always transported goods, especially marble, sand and cement. In the interwar period, a buffet car was even added to increase the attractiveness of the railway.
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10% off all drives and components!* When it comes to drive technology for model railways, there is no getting around the deliberately simple HALLING drives. Like no other model railway manufacturer, the company founder Leopold Halling understood the importance of drives and also offered drives from his own models individually. At that time, the company had a handful of different drives that were actually intended to motorise the so-called souvenir models of the Wiener Linien.
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Back to a new century! The Graz tramway was electrically powered from 1898. The already uniformly green set dates from the years 1900 to 1912 before the open railcars were modernised, windscreens were installed and the lyre bars gradually gave way to the more reliable scissor bars. First individually, later as a set, the Grazer Tramway brought the people of Graz into the city.
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Buy three, pay two! Everything has an end, only the model railway layout often has quite a few track ends! In order to do justice to the variety and without claiming to be complete, we present around 20 (!) different, mainly H0e buffer stops!