Rolling Stock MRE

Inital heat up for a test ride. All inscriptions are still missing , September 2006

Rotary steam snow plow no. 1 of MRE

 
Rotary Snowplow in front of the MRE depot in Bad MoosbachRotary Snowplow on the tracks pushed by engine 50Rotary Snowplow on the line to Marbach pushed by engine 50Rotary Snowplow inside view with engine, gear and steam boiler

Registration number: MRE 800—001

 

The MRE could acquire a snow blower of the Leslie design in the year 2004. The reconstruction started in spring 2006 at the MRE workshops in  Bad Moosbach to  adapt the snow plow to the requirements of the MRE.

Test run for the personnel briefing on the track to Nuschelstadt, September 2006

The BR50 will also be used in the future to push the Rotary, test ride September 2006

Inside view with engine, transmission and steam boiler, MRE central workshop, April 2006

Model:

Based on Rotary Snow plow Leslie patent Athearn kit no.1197 with 9 mm Trix Express axles.

Tender: used  3T16 of a Trix Express BR24

Rotary wheel engine: Faulhaber 1224, 24 V

Electrical connection: Tender with a middle collector shoe and isolated axles at the rotary snow plower

Lights: 2 LED front work lights, 3 LED for interior with 5 V voltage regulator and GoldCap capacitor.

Model of the steam boiler

Prototype:

Type: Henschel, US Leslie Patent

Builder: Henschel & Sohn

Construction year: approx. 1941

Netto weight: 60,9 t

Service weight: 66,12 t

Rotary wheel diameter: 2900 mm

Power: steam ca. 700 PS

History:

Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany started to supply 1895 Rotary snow blowers licensed by the American Leslie patent to European Railways

animated semaphoranimated gandy dancerend of train!

A journey to the Moosbach-Rheinheimer-Railway
Altes Plakat der MRE

3fahrt - Dream and fiction in 1:87

3fahrt

A journey to the Moosbach-Rheinheimer-Railway

Equipment of Moosbach-Rheinheimer Railway

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