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How I detailed Greif THE MINITRAINS TENDER 0-4-0

When I saw this engine in its display case in Nuremberg, I fell for it at once! It’s the true representation of the steam locomotive as drawn in comics and graphic novels, a combination of clichés that are the very essence of a Western steam engine!

Created from scratch around an industrial 0-4-0 T built by Henschel, Greif, as such is its name, runs every day in a park in Karlsruhe, with a string of low-slung carriages, whose bodies are evocative of the famous Airstream caravans.

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