My Rolling stock wish-list for a modern-era Wassen layout
- A passenger train with an Re460. Marklin makes a decent looking SBB passenger train set including the panorama car (albeit all in a previous livery). They also make plenty of Re 460s in weird liveries but its almost impossible to find a red one (and they probably all have the old three pole motors (why on earth can’t they produce a new one in red?)
- A freight train with Re10/10 (Re4/4+Re6/6). Marklin makes a delicious Re 4/4 that can still be found, but unfortunately nobody makes a 6/6 these days, so it would have to be a kitbash or Shapeways effort. SZL had a short run in brass a long time ago and there are Japanese bo-bo-bo chassis available… In the meantime it’s Re 8/8s all around…
- An intermodal container train - maybe with modern BLS power or Re10/10 plus a 4/4 at the back or DB 185s. Unfortunately there seems approximately zero modern euro intermodal stuff in Z and the BLS locos would have to be kitbashed.
- A coal train - not sure if they really run these over the Pass, but I just fell into 12 of these wagons, so an Re 10/10 or 8/8 would be the power, or a pair of DB 185s if I could find some.
So far I’ve accumulated some Re 4/4s, the coal train and half a freight train.
Other possibilities
- Open steel train (old BLS brownies)
- Closed steel train with telescoping-cover wagons (Re 10/10)
- ICN plastic fantastic railcars
- The little Mail Train (Re 4/4)
- Tank train (Re 10/10)
- Winner piggyback train (2+1 DB 185 locos or Re10/10 plus a 4/4)
- Holcim hopper train
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