Or anyone who can read and translate Swedish, dealing with model railroading?
I have an old instruction sheet that is written in Swedish, it's for one of the old original HOO scale "Micro Trains" produced in Sweden in the late 1940's. The paper is in bad shape, but I can scan it and email it to anyone who would help!Thanks,
Al Reibel
Al,
check the site for a user named "Graffen" - he is a Swedish guy and should be able to help you!
Thank you Sir!
I've tried using translation websites for similar tasks in the past for some German paperwork, but a lot of the "technical" nouns won't go. I was hoping to find someone that would know the language and understand what they were talking about!
Al
Sweedish Meatballs. AMTK had some sweedish locomotives and they were called Meatballs. I guess they are all retired now along with the Toasters.
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Not yet!I did get it scanned and upoaded to my Photobucket. It was a "legal" sized sheet of paper so I had to scan it in two parts.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/areibel/HOO3_zpscerijfnl.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a113/areibel/HOO4_zps2hwu3fjb.jpg
It is missing a little section, about half way down just below the line that starts with "Dekalkomanier". If it doesn't work you can email me at areibel at aim dot com and I can send a PDF.
Thanks for any help!
A number of years ago we had a Swedish modeler who had the handle of "electrolove". I remember he was full of enthusiasm about recreating The Zephyr throught the Rockies. Don't know what happened to him or how his project went.
No, the pages listed cover the entire sheet, but the original is damaged and there is a small section missing. If you look at the first page you can see there is a white gap where I mentioned, but it's not very big.
And I don't have another page, just this one. It may refer to the diagram on the bottom of the page, it looks like just the coupler assembly but I can't tell.
Thanks,
When I scanned it I scanned it "text only", so the missing section shows up as white, just like the background. The missing section is to the right of the columns that start "Gron farg, brun farg, svart farg", and there are the numbers 0:90, 0:85 etc. after it, teh section between is what is missing. You can see a few letters that remain. I'm not sure if there was anything important there or not!
And I am posting for a friend that is not on the internet. He has the kits, the Hudson locomotive, two boxcars and two Pullman passenger cars. The only thing missing appears to be the motor for the locomotive but we're hoping it shouldn't be hard to find a small can motor for a replacement. We would just like to know if there are any hints or tricks before he puts them together, and it would be nice to know what it does say. It is 10 mm gauge, so it wouldn't work with N or HOn3 track but we could probably hand lay a short section to run it on.
areibelGron farg, brun farg, svart farg
That´s "green paint, brown paint, black paint"
Thanks Svein and Ulrich!
There are a few other words I can recognize, like pullmanvagn and godsvagn- I'm guessing Pullman car and freight car, but I've learned the hard way that sometimes the free translations leave much to be desired. I model in TT Scale, so a lot of my stuff comes from Germany. But when you take the time to type everything into a translator and it looking worse than when you started, then it is time for a native speaker!
THe HOO models are very interesting, my friend wants to see of he can make copies of some of the parts and build them- I think he would have the only operating HOO train in the US! It's amazing what Mr. Nordstrom was able to accomplish almost 70 years ago.
I´d love to see a picture of that loco!
TT is becoming more and more popular over here. It never played much of a role in West Germany, as the only company marketing TT trains went belly-up in the late 1960´s. In communist East Germany, TT scale was quite popular. The once state-owned Zeuke, later BTTB emerged into Tillig after the Berlin all came down. Since then, a number of new players have entered the market, even big names like Roco, Piko and now Arnold (owned by Hornby) have TT scale trains in their range of products.
I am afraid, US railroads are still a stepchild in that scale.
Thanks Ulrich,
I will post some pics up on my Photobucket this evening, so you can check them out. The locomotive is mostly die cast metal, but the cars have some sort of plastic sides, ends and roof that look really nice. It's funny that TT is only a little older but most of the freight cars then were wood and cardboard.
I started in TT with the old American prototype steam from HP Products, but things are getting better. Most of the "new" American TT comes from Germany, from Lok N Roll, Art & Detail and guys like Ingo Schwaetzer and Mirko Hoffman. And Shapeways has helped too, even if the quality isn't always great. But I am getting close to running some diesels now!
http://s10.photobucket.com/user/areibel/library/HOO%20Models
Here's a link to the album with pics of the current batch, there are a few pics of the first locomotive I found as well (you can see the motor shaft sticking out of the front of the tender on that one). The first pic shows a comparison with a Bachmann 2-8-0, and there's one of the earlier ones with a TT 0-4-0 Docksider in with them.