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[heavyduty]

Hello friends.

Alan Chambers http://alan-lewis-chambers.fotopic.net/ has now inserted a link to one of our threads in his linklist. Name is "heavyduty's delight - german steam".
This is probably why you found the way to us. And I thank him very much for this and want to explain again, that he has a wonderful homepage with tons of incredible fotos. Really worth to visit! Thanks again Alan!!!

Those of you who dont speak german can find here some help to navigate our homepage and this is from now on the right place for questions and answers concerning our hp in english. So please feel free to ask questions, to comment things or to answer here in english.

So let me give you a

first overview:

This hp was created in order to enrich the MSTS-scene by constructing the very, very best models of german steam locos. You can find them in the part "downloads". Meanwhile you find there diesels and elctrolocos too, even coaches, cabs, sounds and so on. But see yourself.
All downloads are free and I was surprised if you could find downloads of higher quality, whereever you might search!
Our chief mechanical engineer (CME) is
stoney.

Second important part is the so called forum, where you actually are in the part "Stammtisch". Here you can talk about everything (mainly dealing with railroads, and especially old locos), see hundreds of historical fotos and newer fotos of preserved old locos. Our special interests lay in historical vehicles as you already have seen in our download area.

Different threads deal with fotos in that "Stammtisch". You can find them as:
"Als die Loks noch dampften...heavyduty's delight"
"Moderne Traktion" wich doesn't mean new locos, but old diesel- and electromotive power
"Hier könnt Ihr Bilder von Museums Fahrzeugen posten" or
"Plandampf"

All these threads are to be continued and so more and more growing. You will find there new fotos day by day.

Other threads are special reports from special events with historical traction material. For example:
"100 Jahre Amstetten - Gerstetten,..."
"Dampffest Heilbronn..."
"Heute in Heilbronn, Besuch bei 23 105 und 86 457" or
"Am 3.6. in Ettlingen - 35 Jahre UEF"


Member or not

As you have noted already, you can see the fotos and read the threads without being a member of this forum. But to post things or to show own fotos (Flo and I are absolute fans of british steam locos) you need to become a member.

This membership is completely free of any costs for you and you are not urged to post here but invited to do so. This hp is completely free of any financial interests. It exists only in the intention to increase fun with MSTS and historical vehicles in general and created by a bunch of crazy people wich once sucked accidentally on the chimney of a steam loco and were infected since then by a funny virus, wich one can not get rid off for the rest of one's life...

So friends, be welcome here, have fun and
please excuse me for my english is not absolutely perfect.

Best regards
Dieter

[heavyduty]

By the way:
My avatar shows me on the footplate of 44 1093, my beloved "Karoline", on which I worked as her fireman in September/ October 1997 when she was in Saarbrücken for eight weeks. The 44-type was the ultimate goods-train-loco in Germany, a 3-cylindered 2-10 machine with an axle load of 20 metrical tons. She was able to move far more than 2.000 (m) tons in normal terrain or 650 (m) tons on 2.5 % ramps. But on those ramps she was a fireman-killer.
When I was her fireman, she was oil-fired again, as she was before in the former GDR. So firing was a matter of moving two fingers of the right hand, nothing more.

See the following picture as an imagination of that wonderful machine.

It was taken in 1992 in the shed of the city Stassfurt. As you can see, she is coal-fired at that time. After her active time as an oilfired machine she was signed to be an active tradition-loco by the former DR, but rebuilt on coal-firing because of the energy-crisis in the GDR in the early 80'ies.

In 1995 she had to have a new boiler because the old one was very bad and more than 50 years old. And this was the right occasion to give her back her oil-firing device so that one can prevent fire besides the tracks in hot summers, caused by exhausted sparks from the chimney.

At the moment, she is standing cold and quiet in the shed of Arnstadt. The DB AG is not interested in her own history, and so, such a beautyful machine has nearly no chance to come back on rails again, even if it was not real expensive to do so. It's a pity! But it seems to be like it is in England: Nothing happens without private engagement...

BR
Dieter

[heavyduty]

Might be of any interest:

http://www.train-sim-werk.de/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=4268&sid=28b6689e8d32014959c308880fd79ede#4268

BR
Dieter