No. 108

Voie Libre international

The magazine for the narrow gauge railways enthusiast.

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Voie Libre International
PUBLISHER: Christian Fournereau - christianf@lrpresse.com/ EDITOR: François Fontana - francoisf@lrpresse.com /Consultants to THE EDITORIAL TEAM: Éric Fresné (ericf@lrpresse.com), Jean-Paul Quatresous / With assistance from: Yann Baude (yannb@lrpresse
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What’s New
0-16,5 /0-14 A must-build for 0 scale narrow gauge enthusiasts in the 1990s and 2000s, who discovered them at the Expométrique show, the Wrightlines kits had become unavailable since Kay Butler retired. After a few years of uncertainty regarding the
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Railexpo NEW RELEASES
Seven new models in H0-12 are now available: the Corsican Billard A 210 D 101 et D 102/106 railcars and the short Renault ABH 5 railcar of the Chemins de fer de Provence (CP), as well as CP trailers (XR 104/105 ex-Billard A 210 D, rebuilt, Billard R
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Revue De Presse
Do you know what is a PCC tram? Issue N° 306 of Voie Étroite tells the story of these affordable trams invented in the U.S.A. and extensively used in Europe. The Rail et Industrie team takes a look at a Swiss gravel quarry in Issue 85 of the magazine
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A Mixed Goods-passenger Consist In H0-9/009
Three bodies, two bogies, a 3D printed roof. A sheet of laser-cut card for the door and window frames, the end-balcony gates, the floor of the open wagon and the roofs. Eight nylon axles with 6.2mm diam. wheels. Six piano wire coupling loops. A sheet
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An Extension Set For The Narrow Gauge Train In Box
The Narrow Gauge Train In Box allows modellers to build a miniature train layout in H0 scale using 9mm gauge track. Once assembled, the layout measures 80 x 70cm, the contents of the box provide for decorating the front part of the layout – on a surf
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The Extension Set
A 3mm thick sheet of MDF, for the track baseboards 2 turnouts, 2 lengths of track, 2 H0-9 electrical supply rail joiners 1 lime kiln, 1 office, 1 shed, all laser-cut 6 trees, 1 bush 1 Norev van 3 Noch figures Ref: Extension TIBVE Price: 169.80 euros
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Play With Your Train In Box !
AtthetimetheNarrowGauge Train In Box was designed by the LR Presse team, it was imagined as an entry point into the world of railway modelling and its many aspects: laying and electrifying track, relief, scenery, vegetation, buildings, but also opera
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HAPPINESS AT LONG LAST: shows!
Four shows in just four weeks! Enough to fill eyes and hearts, prompt new ideas, a kind of new jab – without the needle! Things to discover, admire, inspiration for a future project. We started with the small and somewhat local show at Montbrison in
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Don’s Quarry
Eric Fresné: Jérôme, what gave you the idea of building Don’s Quarry and of using the Busch H0-6.5 range? Jérôme Constantin: Micro layouts or animated dioramas had been attracting my attention for some time. A few years ago, I bought a set of Busch F
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The Layout At A Glance
Scale: H0 (1/87) Dimensions: 60 x 40cm, fiddleyard concealed below the scenery Principle: point to point layout with a return track allowing for continuous running when demonstrating Infrastructure: 5mm thick MDF caisson and 3mm thick MDF trackbed, w
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3D Printing Made Easy! A Wagon-mounted Crane For Beginners
The prototype that inspired me is preserved by the «Maison des cheminots» in Montluçon. Jean-Claude Auboueix told me about it, when I was seeking an unusual way of adding a crane to my layout. And I instantly fell for this quaint little crane wagon,
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Le Montage Pas À Pas
1 Preparing the parts: removing the flash and the printing supports with various sharp tools. 2 Gluing the jib onto the body of the crane with superglue. 3 Gluing the stays, the gears and their fairings using quick wood glue. One side after the o
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What Exactly Is 3d Parametric Modelling?
Parametric software packages require a specific approach to modelling an object. As indicated by their name, a certain number of parameters must be entered, such as measurements (lengths, angles, distances between two given points, etc.) and constrai
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THE ALS-THOM LOCOMOTIVE Of The Chizeuil Mines
Originally mined by the Beauchamp forges in the XVIIIth century, iron pyrites from Chizeuil were worked by John Cockerill until 1853. The Givors Forges Company, but also Schneider, worked other parts of the deposit from 1852 to around 1870. A concess
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Bibliography - Acknowledgments
- History of a mine, Chizeuil, Former miners and friends of the Dardon, new 2017 edition. - Les anciennes mines de pyrite de St-Pierre-la-Palud (dites Mines de St-Bel) («The former pyrite mines of St Pierre-la-Palud (aka St Bel mines»), Alexis Cherme
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A FLAT WAGON WITH SWIVELLING BOLSTER on a REE basis
Carrying logs on a narrow gauge railway is always a pleasing modelling project. The recent release by REE of sets comprising two Hv type flat wagons provides a good basis for evoking the pairs of HTv wagons fitted with swivelling bolsters, such as th
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The Coupling Shank
To represent a pair of swivelling bolster wagons, the buffers can be replaced by some 3D printed ones. This means that a shank can be used to couple both wagons. The shank is either 3D printed, or made out of a 1mm diam. length of brass wire with two
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THE BALERICS, MAJORCA The Sóller harbour tramway
The «Secondary and strategic railways» bill having facilitated the financing of new lines, an extension of the Palma-Sóller railway, from Sóller station to the harbour, was put into service on 4th October 1913. Built to the same gauge, 914mm, it was
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60CM GAUGE AND MAJOR PUBLIC WORKS: the sanitation of Paris
By 1850, the population of Paris had grown to one million inhabitants and the city still had no more than a few dozen kilometres of sewers. In the context of a cholera pandemic, sewage wound up either in cesspits that were seldom waterproof, or worse
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Bibliographie
Bechmann & Launay, Notice sur les travaux de l’aqueduc et du parc agricole d’Achères («Note on the Achères aqueduct and agricultural estate project»), Annales des Ponts et Chaussées, Mémoires et documents, 1897, 2nd semester. A. Berthonnet, Léon Chag
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IMPROVING the MinitrainS Krauss
Start by dismantling the engine, by unscrewing the funnel which holds the superstructure onto the chassis. Then, unclip delicately the superstructure. Watch out for the crosshead slides, they must be eased out gently to avoid bending them. Getting pa
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Supplies
Brass wire diam. 0.3 and 0.5mm Brass tube diam. 1.3 x 0.2 Flat brass strip 0.2 or 0.3mm thick Plastic sheet in various thicknesses Washer, outside diam.12mm, inside diam. 6mm AMF87: lifting rings (A001), lamps (A015), lamp triangles (A035), faucet
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FITTING OUT Your Depot
A depot on a model railway provides a good reason for displaying your locomotives and shunting them around. It is also a rewarding scenic and staging exercize, as it features many typical elements of a railway atmosphere. After having left the topic
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Tooling: The Basics For Plastic Sheet
Working with sheets or strips of polystyrene requires only quite basic tooling. Here is what could be found on my workbench when having completed this article. For tracing, I use a fine permanent felt-tip, a thick ruler, two squares including a heel
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A Day At Aiseysur-Seine Station
Let us imagine a junction on a metre gauge line, serving a short branch line. Let us imagine that the junction is not located at the station, but out in the countryside, a few kilometres away, at the end of a common stretch of line. Let us imagine th
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The Token
Uncommon in those days, the common stretch between Aisey-sur-Seine and Vaurois junction, 2,576m long, was operated with an electric token. This is how it worked: trains could not move onto this stretch without the token. An electric safety system pre
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To Find Out More About The CDCO
Take a look at the excellent book published by Editions du Belvédère: Histoire des chemins de fer départementaux de la Côte-d’Or («History of the chemins de fer départementaux de la Côte d’Or»), by Yves Artur, Gaby Bachet and François Cheveau. ■

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