The 1919 ASEA engine running on the Thamshavnbanen
I have not given up neither the blog or the modelling, but more activity on the modelling front than the blogging one. It might change, but a nice postcard from the Thamshavnbanen is all you get this time.
Research is everything when it comes to fine-scale modelling. And its fun, too! Well, maybe not when you have to dig through dusty archival drawers in an unheated concrete building on one of the coldest days of the year…
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The Thamshavn Railway is in many ways a very unique railway. Not primeraly because it was a narrow gauge railway. Most of the Norwegian railway lines were originally built as narrow gauge lines (1067 mm) and later converted to standard gauge.
I really like the trains of the past. But they make me kind of sad.
Because most of them are gone. Just like my childhood. I dont really think the old trains in museums count. Again, my childhood is something different than the childish behaviour I can be prone to in my middle age.
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