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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by Reichsbahn Yes, I model a "foreign" RR, the German Reichsbahn in the mid-1930s. Great steam engines with "Wagner" smoke deflectors, black locos with red running gear, lots of quite interesting passenger coaches, and very interesting (and different) freight cars. Lots of quality stuff available from Roco, Trix, Fleischmann, Piko, Liliput, etc. Operation includes a fair amount of passenger traffic. Of course, even the Reichsbahn had a diversity of "regional" and distinctive locos (Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon, etc.) So my Bavarian trains come in from the south and the Prussian & Saxon trains from the north. Trackwork is Peco & signals are Veissmann. Only "reservation" is that we who model the Reichsbahn need to keep the livery pre-1940 to avoid the Nazi stuff. Even though the stuff is available, I personally do not own and would not run Reichsbahn trains with the swastika for the same reason that US prototype modelers would not have a 1940s train station in the South with "colored" and "white" waiting rooms. So, expand your horizons - it's a big and interesting world-wide hobby. [/quote] The "Reichsbahn" (Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft = DRG / Deutsche Reichsbahn = DR) existed, under both private ownership and public ownership, from 1920 to 1945 (give or take a year or two, depending upon definitions and caveats, at both ends of the period -- which is known as "Era II" among model manufacturers). The *** came to power in 1933 -- after which the swastika (Hakenkreuz = twisted cross) was added to the already-existing corporate logo: the German imperial eagle (Reichsadler). However, "Era II" German-prototype model rolling stock after 1932 (produced by European firms such as TRIX, Maerklin, ROCO, Liliput, BRAWA, etc.) does NOT include the prototypically correct swastika (still much despised all over Europe): instead, a rather non-descript, undefined geometric design (looking much like a 4-leaf clover) fills the available space within the medallion suspended from the claws of the stylized imperial eagle. "Era II" is considered to be "The Golden Age" of railroading in Germany: high-speed streamlined steam locomotives pulling skirted passenger cars competed with high-speed streamlined diesel trainsets for the traveling public's attention (as well as railroad management's bottom-line satisfaction). And railroad electrification projects competed with both steam and diesel propulsion alternatives in the unending pursuit of greater speed, as well as improved economy, on the [then] largest and most efficient railroad in the entire world.
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