Voie Libre international

Discover every three months in this international issue of Voie Libre in english, new products reviews, layout descriptions, model building, historical information on secondary lines and prototypes...

Voie Libre International

What’s New

Railexpo NEW RELEASES • As is the case every year, Railexpo provided the opportunity for many artisans to display their new releases and communicate about their projects for 2022. Metre gauge (in 0 scale and in H0) was prominent this year with top-of-the-range ready-to-run models as well as highly adffordable kits.

REVUE DE PRESSE

A MIXED GOODS-PASSENGER CONSIST IN H0-9/009 • We are now at the fifth… The fifth P’tits Kits Voie Libre set! This time, a mixed goods-passenger consist is available to modellers. Let’s take a closer look!

AN EXTENSION SET FOR THE NARROW GAUGE TRAIN IN BOX • Just one year after the release of the Narrow Gauge Train In Box, LR Presse is now marketing an extension set designed to complement the rear part of this H0-9 train set.

THE EXTENSION SET

PLAY WITH YOUR TRAIN IN BOX ! • So there, your Train In Box is built, decorated and the inaugural train has completed a full circular run. The time has come to play trains! And to get off to a good start, Voie Libre suggests a few operating principles.

HAPPINESS AT LONG LAST: shows! • Great news, a few modelling shows took place in late 2021. We visited them avidly. Here is a summary in pictures.

Don’s Quarry • Layouts using the Busch H0-6.5 trains are not that common. Jérôme Constantin took the plunge for Don’s Quarry, a fine industrial layout that runs beautifully.

The layout at a glance

3D printing made easy! A wagon-mounted crane for beginners • This small crane wagon will look great on a secondary railway or on a metre gauge line! Jean-Baptiste tells us how he tackled this small project.

LE MONTAGE PAS À PAS

WHAT EXACTLY IS 3D PARAMETRIC MODELLING?

THE ALS-THOM LOCOMOTIVE of the Chizeuil mines • A journey between the Saône-et-Loire and Rhône areas, to the mines of Chizeuil and Saint-Pierre-la-Palud, to discover pyrites. They supplied iron, copper, as well as sulphur, until the latter was extracted from gas at Lacq.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A FLAT WAGON WITH SWIVELLING BOLSTER on a REE basis • Christophe wanted to model the splendid pairs of flat wagons with swivelling bolsters used to carry logs. With a REE wagon, a few hours of design and CAD drawing, and his 3D printer, he tells us how he did it.

THE COUPLING SHANK

THE BALERICS, MAJORCA The Sóller harbour tramway • In the previous issue of Voie Libre, Sébastien Jarne, calling on photographs taken by Jean-Louis Rochaix, took us on a tour of the Palma-Sóller railway. Let’s continue exploring the Balerics by taking a look at the Sóller harbour tramway.

60CM GAUGE AND MAJOR PUBLIC WORKS: the sanitation of Paris • At the end of the 19th century, Paris reinvented itself as a modern city. This meant reconstruction on the surface, but also below ground with an improved network of sewers. A handful of gifted engineers called on 60cm gauge track for these major public works.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE

IMPROVING the MinitrainS Krauss • Christophe describes a simple and pleasant job. He leaves the mechanism (and the chassis) well alone, as they work perfectly and require no work whatsoever.

SUPPLIES

FITTING OUT your depot • After having built the engine shed, Éric Fresné abandoned Quittancourt depot for almost 3 years. This left him plenty of time to mature all his ideas for fitting it out.

TOOLING: THE BASICS FOR PLASTIC SHEET

A day at Aiseysur-Seine station • Gaby Bachet, who has studied at length the archives of the Chemins de Fer de la Côte-d’Or (CDCO) network, suggests we...