PEMRC Newsletter Feb 2020

NEWSLETTER February 2020 In this issue:  Annual General Meeting  Proposed Club House  Diorama Competition 2020  ‘New’ Committee  PEMRC Calendar  Large Public Layouts  Going Underground  Famous Locomotive – Swiss Crocodile  FREMO  Club Library – Track Plans  Tailpiece

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PEMRC NEWSLETTER

FEBRUARY 2020 # 02/2020

PEMRC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - Abridged minutes The AGM of the Port Elizabeth Model Railroad Club was held on Saturday 18 January 2020.

18 members and a visitor attended plus 5 apologies were received.

Mike Smout thanked all of the Committee Members for their support and work put in for the Club during 2019. Most of his efforts had been directed towards the establishment of a new Clubhouse. Mike would be standing down after seven years as Chairman. J-P Kruger thanked Mike for his work on behalf of the Club.

Attie Terblanche presented his report. Income for the year was R21516 (mainly subscriptions and interest) and expenses were R7225 (mainly shop stock) leaving a surplus of R14291. It was agreed that subs would remain at R300 for 2020 but that once a Clubhouse is available this sum should be increased.

EFT is preferred: FNB Walmer Park, branch code 211417, Account no. 623 861 2205 7 Mike Smith reported that the lack of an actual shop had limited transactions. Consignment stock had been returned to members. Sales for the year amounted to R8601.

Carel van Loggerenberg thanked those members who had made their layouts available for Club visits. He invited members to make their layouts available for 2020. It was agreed that Carel should try to include visits to Johan’s layout in Joubertina and Roy’s layout in Makana (Grahamstown) in 2020.

PROPOSED NEW CLUBHOUSE: Mike Smout stated that the PE Locomotive Society approved of our plans and site for the new Clubhouse. PEMLS would inform the other clubs on erf 555 Sunridge of their intention to move a section of the back fence some 20m away from the station site in order to create space for the PEMRC Clubhouse and that the PEMRC would submit plans for the Clubhouse to the Metro. Once plans are approved construction could start.

Funds currently available on hand and donations promised would limit the size of the Clubhouse to 75% of what is planned. Every effort must be made to raise funds in order to complete the project as planned. The Club does not approach individual members for

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financial assistance but is asking all members who are able to contribute to help in raising the necessary funds. All paid up members of the PEMRC will become Associate Members of the PE Locomotive Society. The related fees will be paid to the Loco Society from the annual subs paid to the PEMRC. The site of the PEMRC clubhouse is marked in red on the Google map below and will be directly opposite to the PEMLS station and thus give us good visibility.

Formal approval by Municipality is pending. Mike Smout requested that there must be no public mention of the intention to build a Clubhouse until such time as the Metro has approved the plans.

Juan-Pierre Kruger will be starting with twice monthly evening workshops in February.

Diorama competition.

It was agreed that a Diorama competition would again be held in 2020. Details of the competition to be sorted out by the incoming Committee. In the interim we urge you to attend JP’s workshops and let him know that you want to participate. This year the end result will be for the Club’s use in the new layout being planned.

Election of Club Committee for 2020.

Roel van Oudheusden (Chairman), Attie Terblanche, Mike Smith, J-P Kruger, Carel van Loggerenberg, Graham Chapman, Mike van Zyl, Mike Smout.

Mike Parsons has stepped down.

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COMMITTEE 2020: Chairman:

Roel van Oudheusden

roelvanoza@gmail.com

Treasurer:

Attie Terblanche

terblalc@telkomsa.net

Clubhouse: Mike Smout

ma.smout@mweb.co.za

Layouts:

JP Kruger

juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

Librarian:

Carel van Loggerenberg

annie3@telkomsa.net

Editor:

Roel van Oudheusden

pemrailroadclub@gmail.com

Workshops: Graham Chapman

chapman22@telkomsa.net

Mike van Zyl Shop:

Mike Smith

carpencab@gmail.com WhatsApp:

078 069 7699

Email:

mwsmi5@iafrica.com

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PEMRC CALENDAR: Sat 1

Feb 2020

Workshop: Weathering

Tue 11

Feb 2020

Workshop

Sat 15

Feb 2020

Layout visit at: John Lemon

Tue 25

Feb 2020

Workshop

Sat 29

Feb 2020

Demonstration

Tue 10

March 2020

Workshop

Sat. 14

March 2020

Layout visit at: Johan van der Mescht

Tue 24

March 2020

Workshop

Fri 1 to May Sun 2020 3

118 Adam Rd, Charlo chapman22@telkomsa.net

14:00

Graham Chapman 072 103 4625

6 Corrice Road Charlo juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

19:30

J-P Kruger 082 321 2233

3 Honeysuckle Rd, Sunridge Park johnlemon@mweb.co.za

14:30

John 079 515 5823 041 360 4422

6 Corrice Road Charlo juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

19:30

J-P Kruger 082 321 2233

Mike Parson’s 18 Mowbray St 10:00 Newton Park

4th Saturday morning

6 Corrice Road Charlo juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

19:30

J-P Kruger 082 321 2233

7 PJ Retief Str Joubertina johanmargery@gmail.com

14:30

Johan 084 581 9964

6 Corrice Road Charlo juanpierrekruger@gmail.com

19:30

J-P Kruger 082 321 2233

PEMLS Live Steam Nationals including PEMRC public display at Londt Park Might include ‘night runs’ of live steam!

Gerhard du Preez 072 226 2553

Please support these events

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LARGE PUBLIC LAYOUTS Railz Miniworld in Rotterdam, according to its own statement, the largest covered exhibition layout in the Netherlands. http://www.miniworldrotterdam.com/

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MINIATURE WORLD FACTS .....................................................

Total surface Scale Rails Switches Signals Trains Wagons Roads Cars Controlling PC's Buildings Stations Large bridges Figures Trees Lights Wiring

: 535 m² : H0 (1:87) : 2,3 km : 500 : 180 : 150+ : 1.800 : 500 m : 30 : 23 : 2.800 : 13 : 11 : 27.000 : 7.000 : 19.000 : 44 km

A wonderful miniature world of 535m² and recognizable Dutch landscapes with numerous scenes that arouse the imagination. There is a whole world to discover and experience!

Visitors can see how new parts of the layout are built in the open workshop.............

Extension Great Britain.

A whole new world under construction. Since September 2014 a start has been made on the construction of a spacious building site of over 190 m2 with the theme Great Britain.

From the white cliffs of Dover, through the sloping hills of Mid-England till the spectacular mountains of the Scottish Highlands.

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A voyage of discovery through Great Britain It will be a four – dimensional anthology of all that Great Britain is known for. From the Celtic legends and Neolithic monuments through the turbulent Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution to the present day.

Progress with modelling of Conwy Castle in Wales and Stonehenge:

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GOING UNDERGROUND: Spectacular Glendower 00 Gauge Layout in a 4ft high basement! This amazing layout is accessed via a trapdoor in the kitchen floor!

The 10 minute (70MB) documentary on Dennis Parker and his layout of a lifetime can be viewed/downloaded here. These are some screenshots from the video:

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FAMOUS LOCOMOTIVE - SWISS CROCODILE Crocodile (German Krokodil) electric locomotives are so called because they have long "noses" at each end, reminiscent of the snout of a crocodile. These contain the motors and drive axles, and are connected by an articulated centre section. The centre section contains the crew compartments, pantographs and transformer.

Configuration: Wheel arrangement: Gauge: Wheel diameter: Trailing dia.: Wheelbase: Length: Adhesive weight: Loco weight: Electric system/s: Current pickup(s): Traction motors: Transmission: Performance figures Maximum speed: Power output : Tractive effort:

AAR: 1-C+C-1 UIC: (1′C) (C1′) 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge 1,350 mm (53.1 in) 950 mm (37.4 in) 16,500 mm (54 ft 1 5⁄8 in) 19,460 mm (63 ft 10 1⁄8 in) 103 long tons (105 t; 115 short tons) 126 long tons (128 t; 141 short tons) 15 kV 16 2⁄3 Hz AC Catenary Pantograph 4 single-phase commutator type jackshaft and side rods 75 km/h (47 mph)) 2,721 kW (3,649 hp) at 45 km/h (28 mph) (1 hour rating) 30,000 kgf (66,000 lbf)

Class Ce 6/8A prototype locomotive, SBB-CFF-FFS Ce 6/8 I number 14201, was ordered in June 1917. The production "Crocodiles" were the series SBB Ce 6/8 II and SBB Ce 6/8 III locomotives of the SBB, Swiss Federal Railways, built between 1919 and 1927.

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The Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) celebrated the 100 year jubilee of this epic locomotive in 2019 with several special excursions with rolling stock from SBB Historic.

There were 33 class Ce 6/8 II and 18 class Ce 6/8 III, making a total (excluding the prototype) of 51 locomotives. These locomotives were developed for pulling heavy goods trains on the steep tracks of the Gotthardbahn from Lucerne to Chiasso, including the Gotthard Tunnel.

Š RailPictures.net Georg Trueb - "Crocodile" Ce 6/8 II #14253 with a short passenger train in the Wattinger curve near Wassen The electric motors available at the time were large and had to be body-mounted above the plane of the axles, but flexibility was required to negotiate the tight curves on the Alpine routes and tunnels. An articulated design, with two powered nose units bridged with a pivoting centre section containing cabs and the heavy transformer, met both requirements and gave excellent visibility from driving cabs mounted safely away from any collision. The two motors in each nose unit were geared to a jackshaft between the drive axles farthest from the cab, with side rods carrying the power to the drivers.

Class Be 6/8 Between 1942 and 1947, thirteen members of class Ce 6/8 II were upgraded with more powerful motors, to allow a higher top speed, and these became class Be 6/8 II. This required raising the jackshaft above the plane of the axles, necessitating a more complex system of side rods. In 1956, all eighteen members of class Ce 6/8 III were upgraded and became class Be 6/8 III. These locomotives, sometimes called the "Swiss Crocodile" or "SBB Crocodile", were highly successful and served until the 1980s. Several are still in operation as preserved historical locomotives. The name was first applied to Swiss locomotives. Sometimes the term is applied to locomotives in other countries of a similar design.

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In front of the shed in Erstfeld from left to right: double locomotive Ae 8/14 11801 from 1931 with 5416 kW (SBB Historic), "crocodile" Ce 6/8 II 14253 from 1919 with 2688 kW (SBB Historic) and "Seetal crocodile" De 6/6 15301 from 1926 with 850 kW (Association Seetalkrokodil 15301). Railpictures.net - Georg Trueb Narrow gauge Rhaetian Crocodile in BergĂźn As well as standard gauge Crocodiles, there are also narrow gauge versions. The best

known are the Rhaetian Railway (RhB)'s metre gauge locomotives of class Ge 6/6 I, the Rhaetian Crocodile. Several of these still run on passenger trains on special occasions.

They are also used on freight trains in busy periods. The Bernina Railway also built a single Crocodile type, the Ge 4/4, nicknamed the 'Bernina Crocodile'. This locomotive survives and is being restored to operating condition.

Two other Swiss narrow-gauge railways also have locomotives nicknamed Crocodiles; the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ) uses series HGe 4/4 I, known as the Zermatt crocodile, while the Chemin de Fer Yverdon-Ste.Croix owns a solitary class Ge 4/4 #21.

Neither of these locomotive types have an articulated body, which leads some rail fans to nickname them "false crocodiles".

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The special train to celebrate the 100 year Crocodile jubilee has arrived at Airolo for a checkup and lubrication halt; Ce6/8 III #14305 with Be 6/8 #13302 and Ce 6/8 II #14253 Stefan Wohlfahrt https://www.bahnbilder.de/

Crocodile Ce 6/8 III #14305 is crossing the 25 meter high and 128 meter long RĂźmlingen viaduct built in 1858 on the Hauenstein line with the 1930's passenger train.

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FREMO - Friendship of European Railway Modellers (Freundeskreis Europäischer Modelleisenbahner e.V) FREMO aims at operating as close to prototype as possible. Modules are used as this allows to temporarily set-up large layouts requiring space, which can't be rented permanently. As no unprototypical circles are formed, the modules may have almost any size and shape. Only the module’s faceplates need to meet some basic standards. This allows even the largest radii you can think of and stations may be built fully to scale.

The only limit is the amount of bench work, tracks and scenery you are prepared to build and carry around. Modules allow starting with a small piece of layout to practise your skills.

FREMO members are from different countries: Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Czechia, Belgium and any more in ten other countries. In total there are more than 1900 members as of August 2016. As the FREMO was founded in Germany there is little surprise to find most members there. But the small groups like in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and Czechia are very active. Most model European prototype.

The largest group is H0 standard gauge (H0-RE), followed by H0n30 (H0e), H0n40 (H0m), Proto 87, N scale, fine scale N, 0 scale, fine scale 0, 0n30 (0e), 0n40 (0m) and TT. Additionally some are modelling USA prototype in H0, and an N scale group has just started.

Photo: Ben Verheijden. View the FREMO video here But even when modelling in different scales, gauges and levels of perfection we share our type of operation. Just plain track, straight or curved, including features like semaphores, set of segments forming one big module, stations and yards from small to large. The only restriction is the standardized face plate, allowing to put together the modules in any sequence. As you can imagine from the member count our larger meeting have reached quite some size. Meetings with combined layouts of more than 300 meters of modules have become relatively common.

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FREMO 2016 35th Anniversary meeting in Riesa, Germany

The FREMO: 87 is a group of railway modellers who attempt to recreate the prototype as closely as possible. To that end, they developed standards for H0 and H0e which are compatible with Proto:87 and H0-Pure. The difference between FREMO: 87 and other FREMO groups is its accurate scale replication of the wheel and rail system and its operation with functional screw couplers. The functionality of our standard was successfully demonstrated at a 2002 FREMO meeting in Hammelburg. Since then, many new modules have been built. A 28 page PDF of their HO standards can be downloaded here.

(Or will be mailed to you upon request to the PEMRC editor.)

E.g.: Module width 500mm Module height 1300mm above floor (measured at top of the rails not the module) Centre of track to be at least 100mm from the side of the module The end of the modules have to be absolutely vertical Tracks end rectangular to the end profile of the module Two pairs of legs for each module 14

CLUB LIBRARY - TRACK PLANS

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TAILPIECE Relying too much on your car’s navigation system....

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