Swiss Heavy Metal

I get a namecheck from Electric Nose, who’s talking DCCs and Ae8/8s. Magnificent beasts. It’s a pity I didn’t take more photos of them when they were in general service.

BLS 271 at Spiez, 1991

By the time of my most recent visit to Switzerland, only a single survivor was still working, on spoil trains for the Lötchberg base tunnel.

They will long continue to run in model form, by Roco in HO, and by Kato in N.

OMS: Marillion – Afraid of Sunlight

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2 Responses to Swiss Heavy Metal

  1. John Bruce says:

    Ahem. I have an HO version from HAG, about 25 years old, in my display case.

  2. Tim Hall says:

    I’d forgotten HAG, but then since I’m into N I don’t always keep track of who makes what in HO.