[The Kibri Website: auf Deutsch and in English.]
Here is a Kibri heavy hauler with a tubular load; although an HO-scale kit, I picked it
up ready-made and slightly shop-worn in a hobby shop in Hannover, Germany.
It is missing the rear bunk but is otherwise almost complete and I keep it on an 89' TT
flat for scaling.
(photo by and © 2000 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
And here's an even longer version from the
Scheuerle site:
(photo from the Scheuerle site)
A Web friend who supplied photos of the M65
Atomic Cannon moving through a German village also sent these images, a DB
(German Railways) photo and diagram of the LS 250, a powered 10-axle road
companion to a DB Schnabel railcar:
(LS 250 photo and diagram from DB)
[Thumbnail images; click on the photo and diagram to bring up LARGE images.]
These remind me that I have squirreled away somewhere a whole slew of
never-attempted Kibri HO models based on this same Scheuerle design, which I
bought while in that same Hannover hobby shop and never even started because of
the tedium of assembling the endless sea of roadwheels! Scheuerle makes the
prototypes on a modular concept, powered and trailed, and there is almost no limit to
the permutations and combinations (there are, however, limits to the number of
versions Kibri offers and to my wallet and patience!).
Kibri came out with an HO model of a road version of DB Uaai #687.9 [their #
16502, a 20-axle {2x(5+5)} unit]:
(Photo courtesy of T. Daspit - all rights reserved)
Märklin brought out their HO #18820 Scheurle type LS 250 28-axle dual road tractor
set, the "Heuler" ("Howler") (in DB Cargo red), to carry the trafo load from their HO
#48295 Uai 839 Schnabel rail car on the
highway:
(01/02 Mar 05)
(Slightly retouched from photo courtesy of P. Ziegler - all rights reserved)
Märklin gave me specific permission to post their images of the #48295 car
and #18820 LS 250:
(Photos courtesy of and © Märklin USA by special written permission 01 Feb 2005 - all rights reserved)
I couldn't very well let those two separate images just sit there, now could I?
I trust Märklin will forgive me this melded image:
(Image created 01 Mar 2005 by S. Berliner, III from photos courtesy of and
© Märklin USA - all rights reserved)
[There is major coverage of the LS 250 models on the
Schnabel page 2.]
(05 Jun 08)
Road Load Miscellany
From across the pond comes STG (The
Specialist Transport Group) with some wondrous photos; here's a sample -
124 tons worth of wheels, wheels, and more wheels:
(Photo from STG site)
Next, I got a notice from Paul Bowers, of Piping
Design Central in Montréal, that he is discontinuing his own site and offering me
his pictures, so, here they are in no particular order (the first two were scanned from
color xerographic images, resulting in the strange moiré effect):
(all photos courtesy P. Bowers)
[All but first two are thumbnail images; click on pictures for larger images]
Some of these images are Paul's, of jobs where he did the piping, and some are from
Cloutier-Powney and Associates, structural engineers, also in Montréal.
Will you just look at the prestress in the picture of a vessel being loaded!
At first glance, that second-to-last picture looked like the Miller unit, above (it's not)
and the last is actually Paul's background tile (wallpaper image) and I found that
image so interesting (it's a HUGE, empty road schnabel) that I show it here and will
shortly show the unaltered original (moiré pattern and all!).
I have now collected all of Paul's images; they are HUGE! I'm working on
paring them to fit (there is actually a limit to how much bandwidth I'll give any
subject), but here's a heavily-moiréd preview:
times since the counter was installed.
