We have a new photo diorama! As you can easily see, the great Rainer Imb from Artbeeren has built a wonderful photo diorama for us. We will be presenting it in more detail over the next few weeks. This week, we dare to take a furtive, almost intimate look into the backyard.
The 69ers! Rekowagen is a term coined in the GDR for two-axle tram vehicles rebuilt, i.e. reconstructed, at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk Berlin-Schöneweide, which were supplied in various designs from 1959 to 1975 to the Berlin transport companies in the eastern part of Berlin (BVG-Ost) and to other transport companies in the GDR.
The new c4 is here! Probably the most important gap in the proud series of Viennese tramway models has been filled by the highly innovative and detail-loving Viennese model railway specialists cbmodels®. Just in time for the Vienna Model Railway Fair in Liesing, the new c4 sidecar is finally being released after a long dry spell - and it is an honor and a pleasure for us to present it!
The wild 1950s in Vienna! The "Halbstarke", literally half-strengths, is an expression from the German-speaking countries of the 1950s. It was a colloquial and often derogatory term used to describe mostly male, working-class youths who had fallen prey to the harmful influences of rock 'n' roll.
The Stater Tram! The Stater Tram is the tramline of Luxembourg's capital city. Since 2017, it has been transporting around 17,000 people a day along an 8.5 km route to Kirchberg-Plateau, creating the basis for economic and demographic growth in Luxembourg City, where hundreds of thousands of commuters were stuck in traffic jams every day.
Welcome to the family! Coreless motors are electric motors with permanent magnets and a hollow, iron-less rotor. In this case, the stator, a permanent magnet, is located inside the rotor. The external motor housing provides the necessary feedback for the magnetic flux of the stator.
... from Berlin to the Lustgarten! Strausberger Eisenbahn GmbH (STE) operates the small railway of the same name in the Brandenburg town of Strausberg to the east of Berlin. The in some places quite picturesque line 89 from the railway station to the town connects the metropolis of Berlin with it´s local recreation.
The Game Changer. For several decades, the bogies of our models were driven by a Mabuchi engine and cardan shafts, and that was a good thing! But there is a better way - much better! The brand new and highly innovative bogie drives from HALLING Modelle are equipped with a small but powerful coreless motor.
The Manchester Metrolink is back! The M5000 from Alstom (formerly Bombardier) is a light rail vehicle. It belongs to the Flexity Swift series, which was specially built as a high-floor articulated streetcar for exclusive use on the Metrolink system in Manchester, England. It is a great honor for the small Viennese model railroad manufacturer HALLING Modelle to be able to realize this very successful prototype in a model!
A real piece of model railroad history! The Kriegsstraßenbahnwagen (KSW) were intended to replace the numerous vehicles that were destroyed during the Second World War. These classics were built in a correspondingly simple, robust and material-saving manner. Unsurprisingly, they continued to be used as work cars in many cities after their official end of service.
Christmas promotion - 10% off all models in stock! Even if the year seems to have flown by, Christmas will soon be here again! Behind us all lies a wonderful, albeit hectic time, which we now want to round off with a few quiet days. And we want to take the time to thank our dear customers: thank you for your encouragement, thank you for your ideas and, above all, thank you for your enjoyment of our models.
A wonderful Christmas tradition! Every year we are honored and delighted to finally be able to present the Christmas wagon. This year it took a little longer, but it was worth the wait!
The new historic real wood water car The ride on the unique and over 100-year-old Schneebergbahn from Puchberg to Hochschneeberg is a real narrow-gauge experience! Almost as exciting is the now completely revised and breathtakingly beautiful model of the legendary historic water car!
24 days - 24 percent - The HALLING Advent calendar! A daily look at the Halling website can sometimes be worthwhile during the Advent season. Every day - and only for this one day - there is a model with a 24% price reduction.
The Avenio Nuremberg is now available! With new residential areas, schools and a new university, the need for mobility in Nuremberg is growing. VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg is therefore expanding its streetcar fleet with low-floor vehicles of the Avenio type from SIEMENS. It is a great honor for the small Viennese model railroad manufacturer HALLING Modelle to be able to realize the very successful prototype in a model and thus expand the in-house Avenio fleet by another member!
The most honest Black Friday deals! In the United States, the Friday after Thanksgiving is known as "Black Friday". As Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November, the following Friday is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season. Black Friday has long since arrived in Europe and is celebrated with all kinds of enticing and special offers! Many customers expect promotions, especially in online retail, and we can't disappoint these expectations!
Witnesses to a lost epoch! A water crane is used to supply steam locomotives with large quantities of water for steam generation. As the steam is continuously ejected into the atmosphere, the water supply must be topped up regularly during operation. The normal water crane consists of a vertical pipe with a jib pipe that can be swivelled sideways over the tank filler opening of the locomotive or tender.
A very sought-after model has been reissued! The almost filigree prefabricated models of the authentic 660L refuse containers are exemplary painted and printed. The models of the completely revised new edition, consisting of up to 9 individual parts, now feature three different lid shapes, some of which are even movable. This means that there are now more than 30 different bin models available, enough to realise even the most ambitious recycling project down to the smallest detail.
The Vienna Cube Clock - a timeless classic! The first cube clock was already installed in 1907 next to the Vienna State Opera at the intersection of Ringstraße/Kärntner Straße. Even though the size, technology and dials were to vary over time, the basic shape always remained the same over the decades, which somehow also makes the design "timeless".