The Railroad to Holzheim

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Technical Dates

General informations


Epoch 1952


Size Ho


Scale 1 : 90


Largeness
     Lenght: 6,9 m
     Depth: 1,6 m
      Area: 11 m2


Start of construction: Nov. 1949


Finished Route: from the Hidden Yard (=Blechhausen) to Holzheim


 
Tracks:


Overall Length: about  77 m


Number of Switches (DSS = 2): 44


Number of Decouplers 97


Smallest Radius: 625 mm


Railhead Difference: 0,5 mm


Length of Easements: 250 mm


Highest Point over floor: 1260 mm


Lowest Point over floor: 760 mm


Steepest Grade:
    Main Line: 3.5 Percent
    Industrial Tracks: 4.0 Percent


Rail Highness:
    At the Beginning: 2,4 mm, then 2,0 mm
    In the Hidden Yard 3 mm
    Today: 1,8 mm


Overhead Thickness: 0,3 mm


Lowest Point over Railhead 53,5 mm


Tension:: 9 to 16 Volts DC


Number of Controllers: 4


Control Mode: Tension


  
Rolling Stock:


Number of Power: 4 (Selfmade)


Number of Coaches: 14 (Selfmade)


Number of Freight Cars: 38 (25 Selfmade und 13 Industrials Rebuilded and Wethered)


Weight Proportion Rate of Model to original Car: about 5 g Model per t Prototype


  
Landscape:


Number of Bridges: 12


Number of Tunnels: 10


Shortest Tunnel: 180 mm


Number of Buildings: 39 (24 Selfmade)


Number of Street Crossings: 8


Number of Road Bridges: 1


  
Operation:


Total Lenght of Route: 38 m


Number of Stations and Stops: 7


Number of scheduled pairs of trains: 9 to 11


Number of different Carforwardings
(Like On-Line-Waybills):
about 260


Carforwardings per Model-Day: average 10


Model Time:: Tacts instead Fast Clock


Model Distances: 1 Model Kilometer = 2 real Meters


Hectometer Signs: every  400 mm


Number of Car Runs: 7


Beginning Operation:
    First Layout Part: Nov. 1949
    Part of Today Dec. 1974