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Attention: All used names and descriptions on these pages are pure fiction. Similarities with persons, places or companies are purely coincidental and not intended.

                                                                

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Come with us to the  MRE Moosbach-Rheinheimer Eisenbahn at Moosbach

 

You don‘t know Moosbach? Bad Moosbach is located in Germany in the hills of the beautiful Odenwald somewhere near the river Neckar. Some years ago, after the discovery of the healthy effect of the springs, it received the status of a spa resort “Bad” Moosbach.

 

The Moosbach-Rheinheimer-Railway is developing since 1992 as a private HO-layout with the fictional stations Bad Moosbach and Rheinheim recreating situations in the Odenwald area in middle Germany. Original planned as a layout in L-shape, the segmentional concept allowed over the years 3 moves including changes into a double layer U-shaped layout.

Read on this pages stories and pictures about layout construction, technology and equipment of the MRE.

 

New in April 2011: Fantastic city views and the story of the Victoria bicycle Works at Impressions of Bad Moosbach.

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A journey to the Moosbach-Rheinheimer-Railway

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MRE at a glance

 

Name

Scale

Size

Prototype

Locale

Period

Layout style

Length of mainline run

Layout high

Start                                         

Benchwork

 

 

Track system

Minimum radius

Maximum grade

Roadbed

Scenery                                     

Backdrop                                  

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Moosbach-Rheinheimer Eisenbahn

HO 1:90 (Trix Express, TTR)

3 x 4 x 3,5m,  U-form on two levels, average depth is 80cm

Freelanced

Southwest Germany

1955 –1970

Linear walk around

27 meters (20m visible, 17m hidden) + 40m storage

lower level: 0,80m, upper level: 1,40m, maximum elevation 1,90

1993, reconstructions 1999 and 2001

Open grid and L-girder combined

Build on Segments, today 11 Segments on 2 levels, Segment size max. 1 x 1,2 meters.

Trix Express new 3-track system (produced 1964-2003)

Trix Express R2 (401.7mm)

2,5 percent (in Helix)

Cork

Sculptamold over extruded foam isolation board

Cardboard (architecture modelling board) with commercial backdrops

DCC or DC control selectable in 4 circuits (cab control wiring)

Trix and Trix-Express are trade marks and registered trade marks of Trix Modelleisenbahn GmbH & Co. KG, Göppingen/Germany. Trade marks or  product names mentioned are trade marks or registered trade marks of the respective owners.