times since the counter was installed.
NOTE: Page size is limited by HTML to some 30kB;
thus, I have been forced to add new pages just for Z-Scale, more Z-scale, and articles about Z-scale.
Berlinerwerke-Z Saga
Berlinerwerke Saga (HO, included with Horseshoe Curve info.)
Z-Scale model railroading, at an incredible 220 times smaller than life size, or slightly under half the size of the familiar HO scale, with rails only 6.5mm (~¼") apart, continued ...
Z scale is about 2½ times smaller than HO! In Z scale, a scale ¼-mile is exactly (and only) 6 feet; in other words, a mile is only 24 feet!
Because much information about Z scale is in German, you might find Chris Ozdoba's Eisenbahn- und Modellbahn-Wörterbuch - Deutsch-Englisch / Railroad and Model Railroading Dictionary - German-English of value.
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I have a great nostalgia for ESSO (not EXXON) and was very pleased to
get an ESSO tanker, as well; it is #814 from H(annes). Fischer
GmbH, D-7988, Wangen/Algau:
Ztrack Magazine
The Newsletter for Z Scale Model Railroading
Ztrack now has a separate page of its own - ztrack.html.
Z-scale VehicleZ - continued
The section on Z-scale Vehicles on page 3, Z-Scale
Vehicles and Rubber Autos, overloaded the page so I am carryiong it forward on this
page.
Here's a slightly different Esso one and others decorated for Aral, Shell, and BP:
(20/21 Sep 05 photos by and © 2005 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Next, here are a miscellaneous bunch of vehicles I've acquired (the two VWz are from Lájos Thek and have turned aluminum axles with real rubber tires); in the center, the station wagons are Mercedes 250Ts (Noch 4724) and the vans are VW Transporters (Noch 4732); I have four of the the great vans at upper right but had no clue from whence they sprang and only pictured the three that had different side windows and roof detail (turns out they are from the Märklin 8903 set pictured above and also below):
Noch 4724 Mercedes 250T | Noch 4732 VW Transporters
(21 Sep 05 photos by and © 2005 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
I turned up even more vehicleZ (these photos were simply appalling and were reshot but some are still bad); there was the full Märklin 8904 car set and the full Märklin 8903 truck set (with the M-B star) and I took shots of those, plus a pair of Märklin 8918 trucks (without the M-B star) and a detail of the grilles of the two big trucks from each set (not that much shows but you can just make out the star in a circle on the left two from 8903 and the blank circle on those on the right two from 8918), and the undersides of the Noch cars showing how they are made from clear plastic and the Thek VWs showing their aluminum axles with real rubber tires(!):
Märklin 8903 and 8918 Truck Grilles
Märklin 8903 and 8918 Truck Grilles (enlarged)
Undersides of Noch cars (clear) and Thek VWs (showing Alum. Axles and Rubber Tires)
(21 Sep 05 photos by and © 2005 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved)
Now, the Noch 4780 flat bed truck, was in the 1985 Walthers catalog with a wooden log load@ (and the 4781 flat bed truck carried pipes@); was the log truck ever really released for sale and does anyone out there have one with which they'd part? Ayuh! I thought I'd gotten one (for the Mercerized BentZ plant):
WhoopZ - that'Z lumber, not logZ! Back to the drawing board? It's Noch's 4745. That means I still want a 4781:
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I was still looking for the Noch 4780 semi-trailer with log load; well, change that to the Noch 4781 and asked if anyone out there had one they spare? Well, thanks to Ron Rygielski, I now (26 Jan 2007) have one! It is just perfect for the Mercerized BentZ plant. Note that the 4781 is a Euro 2-axle tractor with 3-axle trailer while the 4745 with lumber load is a standard American-style 18-wheeler:
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Ron Rygielski, who so-kindly furnished the Noch 4780 and 4781 photos, is a dealer in Z items.
Whil(e)(st) at the Z get-together at host Ron Ruddell's
London Bridge Collector's Toys in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, on 12 Jul
2008, I picked up the Märklin 89021 set, one that had snuck by me.
The vehicleZ are hollow die cast metal
I have not yet troubled to look up what it contains, so I'll play a
guessing game here:
(13 Jul 08)
My guesses:
VW Truck (open) / M-B 170 / BMW / VW Bug (maroon) / caravan
VW Truck (w/tarp) / M-B 170 Van / M-B 220SE / VW Bug (blue) / Citroën 2CV
Sure does! These were from the 2005-2006 programs and represent Era III, the Economic Miracle period. The Mercedes 170 is the 170V model (duh - I knew that!), the BMW is a 501 V8, the Mercedes van is a 170T and the 220 is "only" a 220S; the caravan is identifed as a "trailer" and is "suitable" to be hauled by the VW Beetles.
Best regardZ, S.B.,III
The courtesy page for Ztrack Magazine is now on its own page, q.v.
To tour the Z-scale pages in sequence, the arrows take you from the Z-scale index page
to the main Z-Scale page, then to the Sub-Z-Scale page and continuation pages 1, 2, 3 and on,
the Z articles page, the 6 BW-Z saga pages, and, and finally to the current Ztrack page.
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