Trainini magazine - April issue

[fshbwl]

Hello everyone,

The April issue of the Trainini international edition is now available at

https://www.trainini.de/download/Trainini_int_2021-04.pdf

Contents:

- Märklin's new SSy 45 heavy goods freight car with Leopard 1A1 battle tank cargo;
- Type V 23 livestock freight car;
- Herpa's 1:200 scale DC-3 in Pan-Am colours ;
- New Z-scale overseas shipping crates from Joswood;
- Report on NoBa-Modelle, a small-series accessories producer;
- Letters to the editor, product announcements and other news.

Happy reading!

Chris

[nkalanaga]

I downloaded it about 8 hours before you posted this!

Loved the DC-3 article.  We used to see those all the time in Pasco, Washington, USA in the 60s and 70s.  There were quite a few still flying in the Northwest.

Mom's first airplane ride was in a DC-3, from Wenatchee to Richland, WA, in the mid 50s.  Rather turbulent, and she didn't fly again until 1981.

[fshbwl]

Thank you for the feedback and glad you liked the DC-3 article. After last month’s article about the DC-9 we were slightly concerned that yet another airplane article might be a bit too much for a railway modelling magazine.

My mother also has memories of this iconic airplane. She’s from Berlin and was eight when the Berlin airlift started. She lived right under the flight path into Tempelhof airport and heard and saw the constant stream of incoming cargo planes.  And she still remembers with horror the day in the summer of 1948 when a C-47 crashed into a nearby street. Tragically, both pilots died in that accident. Berlin owes a lot to this airlift and the heroic crews risking their lives to keep the city running and its people feed throughout the blockade.

[nkalanaga]

At least in North America, planes and trains have a long history together.  In the early years of aviation, both people and mail could cross the country in both, on the same trip.  Fly by day, take the train overnight, then catch another plane for the next hop.

And, of course, a lot of airports have, and had in the past, rail service, both for passengers and for air freight.

The Tri-Cities Airport, in Pasco, was a US Navy air training center during WW II.  After the war, several of the hangers and warehouses were taken over by various companies, who had rail/road service to one end, and air service at the other.  Very handy, and I imagine that happened at a lot of fields around the world.

[nickelplate759]

Some railroads even got into the airline business.  For example, Boston & Maine and Maine Central formed Boston-Maine Airways in the early 1930s.

[nkalanaga]

But, no, the Seaboard Air Line wasn't one of them!