A551 - A560 ELECTROPUTERE CRAIOVA

[christo]

Andy, please let me answer your question:

Once sufficient orders have been collected, I will ask for a substantial deposit. Three to four months later, I will start delivering the locomotive. Delays in filling the order book and/or paying the deposit will affect delivery times. Bear in mind that this is born out of necessity, since I do not have the funds to take further financial risks as I did in the past with previous models.


christo.

PS. I could win the lottery or sell some of my carriage stock

[Olympus]

Christo;

i order also 1 Model please !

[christo]

Thank you. You are no.12

christo.

[theo]

searching on google look what i found.....many years ago i saw on a site,maybe in amnizia before the big crash,photos of a model that a person built by metal in lathe...i think thats it....i searching railway museum...and found the romanian lady......
Christoooooo????

[jsimantov]

Hi Folks,

This 'model' was displayed for years in the OSE stand at the Thessaloniki Fair. It was common practice in the past years, when a new loco class was delivered, to deliver along a scale model of the loco, usually made of wood/metal, on a wooden stand with a nice brass plaquette!

The last time I saw this model, which was about 1 meter long, it was in the early 90s at the Thessaloniki fair.

The Romanians were real masters in this art, and models of the FAURs were occasionally displayed. Statistically, the more the loco was bad, the better the model the factory used to send!!

I am wondering in which OSE warehouse are these objects stored nowadays; as far as I can remember, there were also models of the Alsthoms and the Ganz Mavags, both standard and narrow gauge.

Cheers,

Iossif

[christo]

Ah , if it is the large scale model, I saw it too.
In the 80s it used to be in the office of OSE's General director of Northern Greece in Dodekanissou street. I was particularly impressed by the detail of the bogies of the model. I was told it was static rather than operational.

christo.

PS. Adding to what Iossif saw at the International Fair of Thessaloniki, I also saw once a scale model of the AEG in about O gauge displayed there.

[GAZKGK]

When ordering rolling stock (both tractive and non-tractive), SEK and later OSE used to include and ask, in the contracts with the builders that "if the builder can also construct a model of ... size for the Railway museum." And, of course, their answer was positive.

Some of them are surely in the room just below SFS of Athens' office at Siokou street, and belong to the Railway Museum of Athens. This room is "waiting to open for visitors" some day in the unknown future .

Although i had seen them from too far away, i remember that unfortunately their condition was horrible, truly reminding of the condition the actual vehicles are (vandalized, missing parts and windows, etc.).

I also have some notes of the models that exist down there... and i will upload them when i go home.

[jsimantov]

I forgot to mention (my brain has a certain mileage...) that on display was also a model of the Siemens-Jung diesel...

I would strongly recommend our SFS friends to carefully preserve those models 'like their own eyes' , since we may discover one day that they are the only available sources for modeling!

And, since we are talking about the Craiovas, allow me to mention an old man's anecdote...

When the Craiovas came to our beloved country, they were so trouble-plagued that the presence of Romanian technicians in Rentis was a very regular feature.
At some point, a greek engineer asked his romanian colleagues how come these locomotives were so bad. I should mention here to our younger friends that in those days all commercial transactions with Eastern European countries were carried out using a 'clearing' process: a certain financial level was agreed for the transaction, and each party was supplying whatever they had for export to the agreed total price in exchange to the goods they received. Now, in those happy days of the late 70s, the main exported items of our beloved country were fruits and vegetables...

So, it is reported that the romanian technician replied, 'Don't forget, you gave us tomatoes, we gave you potatoes in exchange; if you had given us dollars, you would have received locomotives in exchange...'

Also, for your information, an alternative was proposed then: Electroputere had proposed to supply locos similar to the DR 118 CoCo diesels (the 'U-Boote'). Needless to mention here that these were also among the most trouble-plagued engines of the DR before they were Germanized!!

Is it necessary to mention here also the case of the BR class 56 ??

Iossif

[GAZKGK]

One of the builders' models of class A 551-560....

[christo]

Are these models no longer the property of OSE? Have they been sold off?

christo.