Flåmsbana
This is an interesting rail line in Norway. It's a beautiful trip down the mountains to sea level.
This is a prototype I would love to model. Has anyone ever seen or heard of a model of it? Finding rolling stock and motive power would be a challenge I think.
Here's the specs.
The Flåm Railway
Length 20,20 km
Altitude difference 863,6 m
Upper station 865,5 metres above sea level
Lower station 2 metres above sea level
Steepest gradient 55 % - 1:18 (Gulp!)
Stretch > 28 % 16 km-79,3%
Minimum curve radius 130 m
Track width/gauge 1435 mm
Voltage 15.000 V-16 2/3 Hz
Maximum speed 40 km/h
Duration of journey Approx. 60 min.
Brake systems 5
Tunnels 20
Bridges 1
Water tunnels 4
Stops/halts 8
The Wikipedia page
The official website
The NSB EL-17s were the motive power when I rode the line in 2000 and B3 carriages were the rolling stock. I think they've changed the carriages but I can't find anything specific about that.
Here's a view from inside an avalanche shed. You can see the track lower down just before it enters a tunnel.
Larger version here.
Another view of some of the line.
Larger
Top of the line at Myrdal Station. Go Left to Flåm.
A view from the train.
Wouldn't that be a fun little area to model?
Very interesting railway line, very nice pics.
Sparky(Jeff)
Since it is already in a shelf layout arrangement, at least one step is partly done in developing the model. As you pick prime spots (like the nice little village) to piece together in a compressed version of the real thing.
All the best,
Charles
Very cool! Bet it would be awesome in the winter too...
(some one please send me to Europe before I die...)
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotive howling off to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further. - Jack Kerouac
forget about modeling it, i want to live there!!!
I'd love to live there, too.
Originally Posted by bigford
Do you know how many meters of snow a year they get, and how cold it gets in the winter?
No, I don't know either, just asking...
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
ES&BM Ry.
Flåm doesn't get too cold because the water at the bottom is really the ocean. It's on the Sognefjord actually. I was there in July and it was quite warm there. We took the train from Bergen to Oslo with a stop at Myrdal (the other end of the Flåm line) to go down to Flåm. We saw snow still in the upper elevations then.
This is from the webcam in Flåm about 5 minutes ago.
We have more snow here in Minnesota than they do there. Heck, it looks a lot like the amount of snow Charleston, SC got yesterday.
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