Tilman - Old pics
From the pictures around here you can see that i was caught by trains as a young boy. And here you have them in scale 1:1. Pictures are all taken around 1968 when we visited my grandmother in Braunschweig. I got a simple camera by a friendly woman living in the house of my grandmother. Here a homepage in the german language covering the Gliesmarode area.
I took my camera and walked numerous times down to the tracks to see if there where any trains going past.
The
tower seen to the left in the picture was populated during day
hours by a man that where looking after the track-changes and
semafores.
One day I was invited to walk over and wisit the man in the tower.
I in fact helped him to set the semafores using long metal sticks and
wires. You can emagine that this cought my interest for trains......
Guess why I have bough myself a model engine of this sort now ?? Isnt
it all about nostalgia? The fun thing is that I had the oportunity to
see these great engines in the end of the sixties when most trains where
pulled
by diesel and electric engines.
Here i am with my camera, overlooking the tracks in Gliesmarode/Braunschweig. You never know, there might come a huge loco to catch in the celeoloid.
Here Michael, my little brother stands to left of me when we keep a god eye on a lovely series V100 Loco thundering down the tracks.
All over the place these small diesel-engines (type KÖF) where hauling waggons in teh right position. The small 120 bhp engine managed to bring this engine to the maximum speed of 45 km/h.