Bemo Om..first car in pictures

That is a very nice car, Lafondue -- and you take nice, clear photos also, much appreciated.

I'm pretty sure that 22.5 mm / S gauge as a 'standard' for 0m appeared well before Fama arrived on the scene, as defined by an NEM norm [ 010, from memory ];  I just can't find a hard copy of the basic NEM standards going back that far, though I think I have it somewhere.

You might want to buy or borrow a section of S track, preferably scale S, and see how well the Bemo car tracks on it, given that it's only 0.3 mm narrrower.  If that works, then you may be able to run this car with Fama usw items, which would be both expedient and economical.   Turnouts [guardrails ? ] might be a second step.

If you do this, let us know how it works.

With best regards,

SZ

Note: NEM are similar to NMRA RP's / standards in concept

Lafondue,

- I did not express myself too well above:  I meant to indicate that NEM 010 established S gauge as the 'standard' for 0m well before any commercial models appeared on the scene.

- Your point about the curve radii is well taken;  typically the larger fine-scale rolling stock, like a Krok, won't go around those Fama curves.

- At one time I had thoughts about an 0 + 0m layout, and acquired quite a lot [ I don't mean 'a lot', I mean 'a LOT' ] of 0m in the Fama through Roco eras -- but I just didn't have the space to do both.  Of course, those mfgs never concentrated on the RhB, only the Gem4/4 being offered, + Bernina cars, basically.  But I've always been an RhB fan, though primarily in the green [ loco ] era.  Here's three from a 1966 visit:

With best regards as usual, SZ

@Steinzeit...well I hope you still have all your 0m, even by today standard they are still good looking/ running model..true that they never offered a lot of RHb model, maybe 1 of their mistake, since the RHb have fans all over. The "after Roco" Alpinline did correct that with a good amount of RHb model (maybe even too much in the short amount of time, could never recoup the tooling cost for such a niche market)...they are darn hard to find on the secondary market.

Thanks for these 3 pics...specially the 2nd one, that's an amazing sight of this ABe 4/4 with the original pantograph and in green, since already in the early 60's most where repainted red.

You probably know this site, but in case  http://www.railpix-ch.de/  the narrow gauge archive of Switzerland with almost 20'000 pictures...but even there no pics of the ABe 4/4 I in green.

Sincerely,

Nice green pictures!  And yes, the bottom of the cars are too light, but this is also a trait of the LGB and KISS G gauge versions of the same equipmet - I guess it must be a universal trait over there.

The Kiss cars also have a light underbelly.  In fact, at first glance I thought the Om model looked remarkably like a Kiss model.  It's interesting to note that the Om model has remarkably better underside detail than the G guage model, but this also seems to be the norm; G guage skimps on truck and underside detail to help equipment run on tight radius track in a rough outdoor environment, while focusing on roof and body detail.  However, some of the more recent LGB releases (at least those with new tooling) of RhB fright and passenger cars have much better underside detail than the old stuff.

@Glenn..thanks for the pics...interesting to see that the axle is mounted on a "pivot"..is that common on G scale train, even for the short 2 axles cars..??

Nice to see a "La vaudoise assurance" pic on this forum..

Interestingly Kiss did produce a "Bemo" version of the GBk-v car, doubt they will ever do it again !!!

And to stay on the G scale topic....the new 2013 LGB catalogue offer some interesting new tooled items (finally..!!!)

http://www.gbdb.info/data/expe...ung/LGB/Neu_2013.pdf

Sincerely,

@Glenn..thanks for the pics...interesting to see that the axle is mounted on a "pivot"..is that common on G scale train, even for the short 2 axles cars..??

Yes, and it probably began with the original LGB lineup because of the need to run on tight radius curves.

Nice to see a "La vaudoise assurance" pic on this forum.

Can I ask what this means?

On your 1st pic..the ad on the car is for the insurance company "Vaudoise"..wich is the French name of Waadt Versicherungen (since it's a RHb car probably also has the Italian "Vodese" and/or even Rumantsch "Vadaisa" logo/name.)

They now only use the French name accross Switzerland..so the ad on the car can be considered as "Historic"..they also removed the straight line in the larger "oval" of the logo during the rebranding.

But they still put ad on trains..here a branded RBe 4/8 from the LEB railway (also a metric gauge railroad)