OSE N7 Rgmms Flatbeds East German-built 1990

[BalkanExpress]

Christo,

PLease, you can count on me for these wagons. Please, reserve me two units. Is it possible?

Regards

BalkanExpress

[GAZKGK]

Built by VEREINIGTER SCHIENENFAHRZEUGBAU G.D.R. VEB WAGGONBAU NIESKY, 1990.

31 73 396 6 003-5 - Volos '' Διαλογή '' station

31 73 396 6 015-9 - Kilkis

[Dimitris]

Christo hello and good morning.

Will this wagon be out of etched-brass parts? So, that may be soldered? Or plastic, like, i.e. ROCO?

Thanx in advance

Dimitri

[christo]

Dimitri,
The bogies are going to be proprietary plastic. The body I am experimenting. I have already started drawing. I will tell you soon what I find.

christo.

[TimCC6558]

I'll certainly have four of them. Meanwhile, here's one doing what they do, groaning under the weight of an M48: Rodopoli, 2000.

[BarbaPanagos]

great "in action" photo! thanks Tim


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[TimCC6558]

Thanks - I wish I'd taken a few more shots at the time but we were a bit worried about being jumped on by the Army types, who in the event didn't seem to care! I have two or three other pix of this train but where to post them? Should we start a thread on military trains, are there enough photos out there to make it worth doing?

Tim

[christo]

Tim,
You can open a new Army Carrying Wagons topic or even Army Equipment topic (to include wagons) or carry on posting wagons in their correct topic or you can do all three. I will agree to whatever you decide. I am afraid I haven't snapped much at army subjects in fear of ending up arguing with the top brass. However there is a lot of Greek army photos out there in cyberspace. I have downloaded as many as I could but I do not want to post them here without the relevant permissions.

christo.

[TimCC6558]

OK, I'll do that later, although I've not much to start it with - as you say, they can be touchy about it over there. I recall walking along the quayside in Rhodes with a camera over my shoulder and being shouted at by the crew of a Navy patrol boat - 'no photos, GO AWAY!' and I wasn't even looking at their boat!

Tim

[christo]

A friend from this forum has told me a story when he was photographing outside the oil installations in Salonica and was arrested but I hope he will start writing his own stories on this forum because he hasn't so far.

Also worth noting that at times in the 90s the Thessaloniki Shunting yards at Dialogi were loaded with loads of army trains going North to the various Yugoslav wars. Flats with tanks, support vehicles, containers, logistics etc, belonging to the various Nato forces taking part (and Greece allowing passage as a fellow Nato member) but though I photographed them with my memory, the camera never came out of my pocket. My family was young and I reckoned they still needed me
Not many mobile phones in those days.

christo.

I think we are off topic. I may open a topic for old geezers stories