I just got finished with getting this one fixed up and running!
I've been trying for a while to find some info on it, but nothing seems to be coming up. All I can determine is that it's probably a model of a German E45 electric. Does anyone know more about these?
_________________________________________________________________
Thank you for another great video.
Your re-winding of the motor was very interesting to watch. It made me sad that it did not work perfectly after that.
The CD-Drive motor installation sure looked neat when it was done.
I am not up to tackling a project like that, yet, but I enjoyed every bit of it.
Thank you.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Thanks! I wish the rewind would've worked too, but sometimes things just don't go as planned.
One of the comments on the video got me some info on this model. It was apparently a model of a German electric, but was painted and numbered to represent an Austrian electric instead of making a correct body. That would explain why I wasn't able to find a matching prototype!
Darth Santa Fe Thanks! I wish the rewind would've worked too, but sometimes things just don't go as planned. One of the comments on the video got me some info on this model. It was apparently a model of a German electric, but was painted and numbered to represent an Austrian electric instead of making a correct body. That would explain why I wasn't able to find a matching prototype!
There was no "German class E45". Class E45 was allocated to Austrian locomotives of class 1170 after Austria was absorbed into Germany in 1938. See the movie musical "sound of Music" for one view of the "anschluss".
After the end of WWII, Austria partially reverted to the pre war classifications. However, there was some variation in the way this was applied. It seems that a few locomotives were built to class 1170.3, although the first of these carried the class E45.3. These look very like your model, except that the photo I have of 1170.307 has only two cab windows rather than three. to confuse things further, these were reclassified as class 1040, and had an angled cab end with larger windows fitted at overhauls, which matched later Austrian locomotive classes.
The mechanism looks like that used by an early Austrian company "Kleinbahn", although Piko, an East German company might have built it.
My source is the book "Die Lokomotiven der Republik Oesterreich" by Josef Otto Slezak published in 1973.
I think that your model might be correct for the earliest of these locomotives as built. There is a diagram on page 103, and photo number 121 illustrates the unit.
Peter
Thanks for the info!
M636CI think that your model might be correct for the earliest of these locomotives as built. There is a diagram on page 103, and photo number 121 illustrates the unit. Peter
That was one of the best responses I have read.
Thank you for typing all of that.