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PUBLISHER: Christian Fournereau - christianf@lrpresse.com/ EDITOR: François Fontana francoisf@lrpresse.com /CONSULTANTS TO THE EDITORIAL TEAM: Éric Fresné (ericf@lrpresse.com), Jean-Paul Quatresous / WITH ASSISTANCE FROM: Yann Baude (yannb@lrpresse.c

It is generally accepted that railway modelling calls on a wide range of abilities: a touch of historical research, just to know where we stand and provide some context. A bit of technical know-how, to make sure everything works properly and smoothly

Motive power is back in the SBLC range, with a new locotractor based on a D22 agricultural tractor. As is customary, Richard has concocted a kit consisting of some 20 neatly injected resin parts. Once separated from their spruces, the parts are assem

Evemodel (China) produces a range of Diamond type bogies in H0 scale for 16.5mm gauge track. The price is ca. 12€ for a pair of bogies with metal axles or for 12 bogies with plastic axles (customs duties may apply). The diameter of the tyres at rail

H0-12 Built by SIG Neuhausen in 1908 for the Bernina line, it was transferred to the RhB in 1942 under number BC 1415, then converted to AB 1415 in 1956 when 3rd class was abolished. It became a 2nd class carriage (B) in 1973, and was withdrawn on 4t

H0-9 Schmalspurbedarf is a German retailer who sells Polish wagons from the national PKP network, made by the artisan Mano. The two new releases presented here are an open wagon and a breakdown box van. These very original wagons are 3D printed and f

This new model, with no end-balcony nor brakeman's compartment, reproduces the prototypes that run on the Schafberg Bahn rack railway. This Austrian line connects Saint Wolfgang, on the Wolfgangsee in the Salzkammergut region, to the Schafberg summit

Never produced in H0 scale, these small endtipper wagons used to be found all over public works sites and quarries from the mid-XIXth century until the 1960s. Their wooden structure meant that very few were preserved. Pascal Boivin has just released

This Italian artisan, based in Japan, has released some splendid 3D printed locomotive bodies. They are designed to fit over 0-4-0 driving mechanisms, produced in kit form by one of his Japanese colleagues, Model Imon. Most of the bodies consist of o

The British artisan Tramfabriek has produced these small autonomous lighting systems, MagnoLED, hyper-convenient for our tiny carriages. Just imagine: a circuit board carries on one side the components required for it to work, as well as a LED. On th

Launched a couple of years ago, the annual subscription price of the «Makers» offer by Solidworks has just fallen from US$100.00 to US$48.00 without tax. If you add to this a rather favourable euro/dollar exchange rate, an annual subscription now cos

In its issue 94, Rail & Industrie features a fine article by Louis Caillot dedicated to the locomotives used before WWI on construction sites. What with vertical boilered engines, those featuring a Brown valve gear, those designed for variable gauge

Meet narrow gauge enthusiasts and members of the Editorial team to exchange around our favourite hobby: - At MobExpo in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, on 20th and 21st April. - At the second edition of Passions Ferroviaires on the Kaeserberg layout at Fribou

Born in Berlin at the turn of the 1960s, Andreas’ very first train set was an Egger-Bahn starter one; it was love at first sight! He quickly became a keen modeller, an H0-9 fan, doubling as an enlightened collector of that brand. At the beginning of

A Swiss engineer, born in 1850 in the Zurich area, Roman Abt cut his teeth under the tutoring of Nicklaus Riggenbach, 33 years older and the inventor of a railway rack system in which a pinion driven by the motor meshes with a kind of ladder laid dow