Voie Libre international

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TRAINSMANIA BRINGS US TOGETHER

Voie Libre International

PREMIUM CLASSIXXS : A TATRA T3 TRAMWAY

TILLIG : BOGIE WAGONS

TILLIG : THE T1 RAILCAR IN MEG VERSION

ROCO : 6-WHEELER WAGONS

BUYING IN JAPAN

ABE : PRIMER PAINTS IN SPRAY CANS

AUBERTRAIN : TWO PAIRS OF METRE GAUGE AXLES WITH 17MM DIAM. WHEELS

GÉDÉO : BIORGANIC RESINOUS GLAZE

SCALESCENES : A MICRO-LAYOUT MADE OF PRINTED PAPER

DVD • TRAMWAY ARCHIVES 1950 – 1975

A REAL COLLECTION CATALOGUE

Book • LE SALÈVE ET SON CHEMIN DE FER À CRÉMAILLÈRE [THE SALÈVE MOUNTAIN AND ITS RACK RAILWAY]

BOOKS FOR PROPER RAILWAY HOLIDAYS

PRESS REVIEW

GATHERING • ABRESCHVILLER 10TH AND 11TH AUGUST 2019

A VERY GREEN PRAIRIE • Heljan moves into narrow gauge! The Danish manufacturer has produced a very attractive Prairie 2-6-2 T of the Lynton & Barnstaple railway in 009. Let’s take a closer look.

JEAN-LOUIS ROCHAIX Farewell to a friend • Jean-Louis Rochaix has passed away. No longer shall we hear his railway stories and anecdotes, which he always told with a comic twist. No longer shall we meet him on a station platform, camera round his neck, ready to shoot and list all kinds of rolling stock.

TRAINSMANIA 2019 The passion that unites us • This was indeed a very fine gathering. With Trainsmania 2019 now over, let’s take a look at a few particularly impressive layouts.

CARRY WAGON • Right from the outset, narrow or metre gauge railways were faced with the problem of trans-shipping goods to or from those networks.

THE MODELS REVIEWED

THE GLÖCKNER SYSTEM

THE CAMBRÉSIS 2-8-2 T engines • The Cambrésis railway extended from the slag heaps of the Nord department all the way to Saint-Quentin in the Aisne. Fine 2-8-2 tank locomotives ran on this system, let’s take a closer look at them through photos and diagrams in our central folder.

Detailing a Minitrains BOX VAN • How about a small quiet Sunday morning job, to keep your fingers nimble and make use of a few bits and pieces from your scrapbox?

MAIN SUPPLIES

A sweet-tasting ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE • Do you remember La Mine de la Sucrée : a micro-layout in 0 scale, built on an A3 sheet! It was one of the layouts that took part in the Voie Libre/RAMMA challenge in 2017 (VL92). Alain, its creator, tells us about the electric engine!

A RAILCAR for our rural communities • A Verney railcar in kit form, a few historical references, a slightly unusual station building and a layout project… Here is a special railcar dossier to keep you busy during the holidays. Have a great modelling summer.

Verney railcars IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE ROAD • We have focused this railcar dossier around the release of the MJModélisme kit in H0-12. Jean-Louis Rochaix had prepared a selection of photos from his collection, illustrating the more recent Verney units.

A Verney railcar ON A GMC CHASSIS • Marcel Joly Modélisme has released an ancient contraption, a real dinosaur of the railcar era in H0-12. Let’s tackle its assembly!

A PRETTY LITTLE STATION, printed in 3D • François Fouger shows us how to design and assemble a building (almost) entirely 3D-printed; and how to do so at home!

The proper adhesive for PLA

Grignan, two minutes’ stop!

How to avoid unpleasant surprises

Ancer, high up on the plateau • Here is a simple layout project, small enough to fit into the corner of a room, where railcars and short locomotive-hauled consists in H0-12 can run.

Making corrugated sheet-metal...