zugmann Penny Trains Kron Prinz Zug? Huh?
Penny Trains Kron Prinz Zug?
Kron Prinz Zug?
Huh?
Johnny
Hillarious! I think some of those barges are doing about 120 scale knotts!
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Well, now that this thread's been pirated by things nautical, and especially by that gorgeous live-steam Maerklin Tirpitz, have a look at this video I found.
And mind you, this is something that NO-ONE's EVER going to do with that $35,000 toy ship!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpMWnwiUq0
I'd be happy with that cheap'un on my shelf. It reminds me, I was in a hobby shop in Munich in 2009 and they had an R/C model of the S.M.S. Emden- that thing was 6 feet long and exquisite! I don't recall how much it cost but it sure wasn't cheap. I wish I had the money whatever it was and I wish I could have safely stowed it in the overhead locker on the aeroplane home. Really, that thing was amazing.
Well, isn't that cute!
And you're right Becky, $12 sure beats the heck out of 35 G's!
I wonder if Overmod should shift this thread over to "Classic Toy Trains" just to see what kind of stampede he starts over that live steam Tirpitz?
A tin toy boat for the rest of us:
It's only 8 inches, but it's also only 12 bucks! https://www.tintoyarcade.com/battleship-espana.html
So it IS live steam! Wow! And at 34" it's a big 'un, you could darn near ride it!
Yeah, my computer doesn't do the umlauts either, hence my spelling it "Maerklin."
As far as the idea of railroaders who were combat veterans sabotaging German made locomotives, I'd say anything's possible, although without solid proof I'd never make the accusation. I do know the rage and hate can last a long, long time after a war and some men never get over it. US fighter ace Don Blakeslee hated the Germans to the day he died and would never attend any fighter pilot gatherings or symposiums where any Luftwaffe veterans were in attendance.
Don Blakeslee was a tough combat soldier, he's been called "General Patton in a P-51."
For the record: it is Marklin (I spell it the way it was marketed here in the ‘60s; someone tell me how to get umlaut characters on an iPhone), it is live steam, 34” long, and said to be completely and lovingly restored. You might not want it as much if you knew its starting bid was $17K and expected hammer price around $35K, let alone that your buyer’s premium is 25%.
I wonder how many of these and so many other German steam toys were destroyed during the Wilsonian hysteria whipped up to justify WWI, and persistent so many years after. But that is politics not relevant here, and recrimination will not bring them back.
i do wonder if there were railroaders on SP or D&RGW who had lost buddies in the later war and might have disliked or even sabotaged the ‘German’ diesel-hydraulic locomotives in service... I remember not liking the Quarter Horse for its commie origins, but that design certainly needed no sabotage from anyone; its own ‘engineering’ did that readily enough!
Knowing the size would help, but I'm guessing it's a wind-up, there's a whole lot of superstructure you'd have to get out of the way to access a boiler and burner assembly.
I'd love to have it myself! Not much room in the bathtub for it but I'd figure out something.
Wow! That model is a beaut! Would that be a wind-up or live steam? Either way, me want it!
M636C Overmod Speaking of 'American-size larger' but German, how about this, in steam, from even before the era of the 'Atlantic Coast Line' 19 1001 motor locomotive... Not sure how prototypical that 'flag of convenience' is ... but I'd certainly have flown it proudly in my backyard fish pool! I don't think there was a German warship named Tirpitz until 1941. Tirpitz was an Admiral concerned with ship construction, so that may have led to the name on the model. Of course the cruiser Prinz Eugen was taken over by the USN after WWII and flew a US flag, so there was a precedent. I don't know if any ships were taken over after WWI. Peter
Overmod Speaking of 'American-size larger' but German, how about this, in steam, from even before the era of the 'Atlantic Coast Line' 19 1001 motor locomotive... Not sure how prototypical that 'flag of convenience' is ... but I'd certainly have flown it proudly in my backyard fish pool!
Speaking of 'American-size larger' but German, how about this, in steam, from even before the era of the 'Atlantic Coast Line' 19 1001 motor locomotive...
Not sure how prototypical that 'flag of convenience' is ... but I'd certainly have flown it proudly in my backyard fish pool!
I don't think there was a German warship named Tirpitz until 1941.
Tirpitz was an Admiral concerned with ship construction, so that may have led to the name on the model.
Of course the cruiser Prinz Eugen was taken over by the USN after WWII and flew a US flag, so there was a precedent. I don't know if any ships were taken over after WWI.
Peter
Quite true, the Tirpitz was launched in 1939 several months after the Bismarck. Naval tradition of any maritime country used to be you didn't name ships after anyone still living, hence my suppostion that Grand Admiral Tirpitz was still alive when that toy was built. Whoever made it indulged ina bit of artistic license.
The US did take possession of two German warships after World War One, at least two that I know of. One was the battleship Ostfriesland, the other I don't recall the name of. As per inter-Allied agreement any ships taken from the Germans were to be kept only for evaluation and then disposed of. Ostfriesland and the other German ship were eventually sunk as targets for General Billy Mitchell's bombing tests.
Pretty much the same story for Prinz Eugen. The Prinz ended up as a target ship for both Bikini A-Bomb tests. Remarkably, it survived both tests and was towed to Kwajalein Atoll and sunk there due to unrepaired hull leaks from the bomb tests. The Prinz is still there too, a popular wreck dive site.
Penny Trains Firelock76 What a great looking toy! Wonder if it's an Ives?
Firelock76 What a great looking toy!
Wonder if it's an Ives?
Could very well be, I was thinking Maerklin myself.
A model of the Prinz Eugen would make a nice nightlight.
Firelock76What a great looking toy!
What a great looking toy! Although the Germans broke tradition naming it "Tirpitz," I'm sure the Grand Admiral was still very much alive when that toy was new.
Probably just too nice for some rich kid to play with, which is why it's in such good condition.
Probably worth a hell of a lot more than any of us would be willing to spend!
A little bit of "Antiques Roadshow" here on the forum.
54light15 ... wasn't the KM a diesel-hydraulic like a lot of German diesels?
Yes, but larger -- American-size larger.
According to Trains, the hydraulic transmission was one of the chief problems, but not in the way you'd see coming. First was that with Teutonic thoroughness, the transmission was interlocked so it 'sequenced' through reversing and couldn't have power applied until it had thoroughly settled. This took some time, and on a typical pair of these there were four separate transmissions -- this was one of the very few things slower to load when switching than a pollution-optimized GE. Apparently anything involving repeated reverses was slow and agonizing compared to what's required for a MUed diesel-electric consist.
Second, and perhaps the kiss of death, each transmission contained a great deal of hydraulic fluid. Every liter of which, along with the lubricant in all those Cardan shaft bearings and gearboxes, was supposed to be replaced every 30 days, under the terms of the guarantee, and only German fluid was supposed to be used ... I don't know if this was Pentosin, or the Esso equivalent that BMW used in the ZF transmissions, but it was mind-numbingly expensive in the early '60s. It might be interesting to see how the Alco C855 compared in this respect.
Add in the requirement that fairly frequent wheel turnings had to be made to prevent premature gearbox and shaft damage... and you're rapidly running out of the advantages gained by using the MD870s and synchronized slip-resistant drive...
In the early 60's, DB was pretty big on torque-converter rather than electric transmissions. The 21 KM's exported to the United States were based on European designs modified for North American usage.
I kind of like the nickname of the S.M.S. Seydlitz, "The Iron Dog." (I have a card model of it on a a shelf right behind me as I write this.) But anyway I drove a Mercedes 300 like that once for the woman who owned it but couldn't drive it. The reason was, standing still it was almost impossible to turn the steering wheel. Parking must have been fun! But, when it was in motion, it was like it had power steering. Unusal to say the least. But, wasn't the KM a diesel-hydraulic like a lot of German diesels?
I went into the archives here at the "Fortress Firelock" and "Penny Trains" isn't too far off the mark.
There was a German battleship during the First World War named the Kronprinz, later changed to Kronprinz Wilhelm.
Scuttled with the rest of the Kaiser's High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919, she's still there.
"Der Alte." That's not bad either.
Crown Prince Train.
Der Alte...the Old Man
You folks are missing the boat (pun intended) - this thing is a working success and a grand achievement, and yes, they appear to have crossed their Ts very successfully indeed, all down the line.
I suggest there is a more appropriate name for that locomotive, and it follows the naming condition that was used for
Name it after Adenauer.
(I don't think he was still Bundeskanzler when 9010 was built, but he certainly was when it was ordered ... and in the early years of the Amerika-Lok program.)
OK, how about we go back further in history to the dreadnought era?
The Kaiser class was a series of dreadnoughts built 1909-1913.
Ten 12-inch guns were the main armament.
The way that thing is smoking in the video, it does look like it is burning Ruhr coal.
In fact, the ghost of Admiral Beatty and the First Battlecruiser Squadron may be steaming into San Francisco Bay towards the smoke at this moment.
So here is a suggestion of "The Kaiser", just for fun.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Not bad, not bad at all!
Prinz Eugen popped into my mind earlier, but that was a heavy cruiser, not a battleship.
Nah, GE had first dibs on U-Boats.
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