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Some of Lionel HO trains between 1974 and 1978 were made by Athearn. On July 15, 2005 Roco Modellspielwaren GmbH was declared bankrupt and taken over by the creditor Raiffeisenbank. After restructuring, a new company Modelleisenbahn GmbH was formed to consolidate the model railroad market. The Roco brand and associated logo continued to be used.
Also, beginning in 1971, Atlas began importing a line of O scale locomotives and rolling stock produced by Roco in Austria. New items were not advertised after 1973, though some pieces remained catalogued through the 1980s. [7] Atlas entered the market for ready-to-run HO scale diesel locomotives in 1975, importing models produced in Austria by ...
The term HOn30 (and sometimes HOn2½) is generally used when modelling American prototypes while H0e is used for European prototypes. In Britain, the term OO9 is used. [1] All these terms refer to models of narrow-gauge railways built to the world's most popular model railway scale of HO (1:87) but using a track gauge of 9 mm (0.354 in)—the gauge used for N scale models of standard-gauge ...
A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for size Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is ...
Roco may refer to: Roco (model railroads), an Austrian manufacturer of model railway equipment; Roco (surname), surname; Roco Sandu (born 1966), former Romanian ...
The wheel arrangement was mostly used to describe Mallet locomotive types and in some occasions, Double Fairlie locomotives. A similar wheel arrangement exists for Double Fairlie , Meyer , Kitson-Meyer and Garratt locomotives , but on these types it is referred to as 0-6-0+0-6-0 since both engine units are pivoting.
Norfolk and Western 2156 is a preserved Y6a class 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotive. The Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) built it in 1942 at its own Shops in Roanoke, Virginia as the second member of the N&W's Y6a class. No. 2156 and its class are considered to be the world's strongest-pulling extant steam locomotive to ever be built.
DRG steam locomotive 01 046 at the former RAW in Frankfurt am Main-Nied in the year 1938 Manufacturer's plate of 01 118 of the Frankfurt Historic Railway. The firms of AEG and Borsig, who were the main manufacturers of these engines, together with Henschel, Hohenzollern, Krupp and BMAG previously Schwartzkopff, delivered a total of 231 examples of this Einheitsdampflokomotive between 1926 and ...