The following photos show an interchange taking place where one train changes its motive power.
The BR39 steam engine leaves the depot, to take over from an E91 which has just arrived with an oil train.
Trainwatching around Altkloster-8.
OK here's the drum. I don't actually watch real trains at Altkloster.
I make it all up.
These are only models, and I can weave a pretty good story around them. In reality,
these toy trains are my play things.
But because I am the driver, signalman, despatcher, and fat controller all at
the same time, my brain gets confused.
I have numerous diamonds (tracks crossing other tracks) on my
layout, and 4 trains running at most times.
This inevitably results in crashes, because I cross one train into the path
of another.
I do have some signals, by which I have control to stop trains, but sometimes
I forget to use them. You can see why I would never get a job on the real railways.
Anyway, I often physically place a hand in front of a running train to impede its progress, to avoid slamming into another train. Luckily most of my models are robust and none have come to any real grief.
While all this mayhem continues, the trains do their jobs as
described below, and I make believe that I am watching them go about their duties.
The following photos show an interchange taking place where one train changes
its motive power.
The BR39 steam engine leaves the depot, to take over from an E91 which has just
arrived with an oil train.
Here is the westbound oil train arriving in a loop off the main
line. It arrived in the loop by crossing a diamond on the eastbound main line.
As the E91 crossed the eastbound, it narrowly avoided (I stopped
it with my hand) the VT04 which was speeding eastward.
This two car diesel set was built in 1933, and was used to prove the operational
practice of internal combustion engines on main line railways.
The E91 turns across the eastbound line to the westbound line
to return light to the depot. Then the BR39 backs on to take the train west.
