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Voie Libre international

Editorial #113

BEMO: SCHÖLLENNENBAHN MOTOR UNITS ABFHE 2/4 AND FO BDEH 2/4

BEMO : A IV K 99 597 IN THE METAL COLLECTION SERIES

BACHMANN : THE QUARRY HUNSLETS

BEMO : NEW LIVERIES FOR THE LH45

TILLIG : A BOGIE CARRIAGE FOR THE HARZ

TILLIG : A BOGIE BOX VAN

TILLIG : A HARZ 4-WHEELER BOX VAN

ROCO : A SET OF CARRIAGES FOR THE WALDVIERTELBAHN

LILLIPUT : A ZILLERTALBAHN SET

TRAMFABRIEK : DISCREET COUPLINGS FOR YOUR ROLLING STOCK

SCHNELLENKAMP : WAGON AXLES

BACHMANN : RNAD WAGONS

TRAMFABRIEK : PUT A TIGER IN YOUR MINITRAINS ENGINES

SUPPLIES • AK INTERACTIVE: UNE NOUVELLE GAMME DE CARTE PLASTIQUE!

Book • LOCO-REVUE 90 SPECIAL ISSUE: BEYOND THE BORDERS!

PRESS REVIEW

BERNARD DÉLUARD

Edgar IS BACK IN THE LAND OF ITS ANCESTORS! • The arrival on a railway of a new steam locomotive in workingorderisnota frequentevent. This piece of news deserves a closer look …

Gang of Four • Nothing remotely political in the title above… We are talking here of a fine layout built by a group of friends!

Blajan: BRINGING THE CFSO BACK TO LIFE • The Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Sud-Ouest (CFSO) used to operate the secondary railways in Haute-Garonne and owned one of the most extensive networks in the south of France.

THE WHITE TRAIN

LAYOUT PROJECT Blajan station

BUILDING « MAJOR » the railcar that came in from the cold • As soon as we caught sight of it, we fell for this small steampowered railcar. So we decided to ask Charles Insley, its creator, to describe how he built it for the readers of Voie Libre.

The BellinzonaMesocco railway • Opened to services in two phases, on 3rd May and 31st July 1907, the Bellinzona-Mesocco (B-M) line served the Moesa valley, the river’s headwater being located below the San Bernardino Pass, in the Swiss canton of Grisons.

Saint-Michel-Saint-Cyran, Lingé and Chaventon: the smallest station buildings on the Blanc-Argent • In Issue n° 110 of Voie Libre, we had taken a look at the locomotives of the Petit Anjou and of the Chemin de Fer du Blanc à Argent (BA). We now travel to the part of the latter line located in Berry, to discover some less familiar stations.

Micros for all • It’s a current trend in the worls of railway modelling. One hundred percent modelling, a few steps away from the traditional large layout project. Here are a few creations, in many different scales, to prompt you to try your own hand… Unless you already have!

Squarefoot Mine

A wagon-load OF DIAMONDS • I am the happy owner of a fine 0 scale diesel tractor, but it has no wagon to haul! So I decided to build one, a beautiful one, so beautiful that it will be coated with… diamonds!

Integrating buildings INTO THE GROUND • Sometimes, we see on layouts buildings that are simply placed on the ground, leaving an unsightly and unrealistic gap between the baseboard and the bottom of the walls. Gilbert Gribi answers the question: should buildings be embedded into the ground? And he suggests a smart solution.

With digital control, MORE FREEDOM FOR YOUR TRACKS! • Whichever gauge or scale you model in, the range of DCC-fitted or DCC-ready narrow gauge locomotives has exploded over the last few years. So much so that it becomes tempting to switch to DCC and select a first central unit. T o help you make the right choice, we asked Éric Limousin for his expert advice.