Does anyone know from where I might be able to download or purchase plans for an 0-4-0 600mm gauge Henschel HF 110 C circa 1939 - 45? I have exhausted the local library and interlibrary loans and while there have been many fine photographs, no plans! I don’t read german BUT did find an english language german railways site, still no plans! This attempt may be my “last chance”. The research has been fascinating, if unproductive. I never would have thought of the railway equipment and structures of a Patagonian or Norwegian whaling station myself. At any rate any help would be most gratefully appreciated.
You will be very hard pressed to find many Henschel und Sohn locomotive drawings on the web. The drawing office suffered a fire in the early 50’s, which seems to have got most of the drawings that RAF Bomber Command -missed…
You will be down to how I produce most of my locomotives -home photogrammetry!!!
Print out the pictures on graph paper find a dimension that you KNOW is correct and scale it from there.
Thank you very much Cabbage. I was not aware of the fire. It answers my question as to why I could find all sorts of Orenstein & Koppel drawings but finding Henschel drawings was like finding the proverbial Hens Teeth. The odd thing is it is from a Garden Railways site that I managed to get a side view drawing but no front views. So I am caught halfway in between. (With a very heavy sigh) I fear you are correct and I shall have to drag out my old airforce photogrammetry “stuff” and so to speak “reverse engineer” the front view. If I recall correctly I should be able to get to within 1/2" to 1" of the correct meaurements. Bit of a pain laying out all those vanishing lines and view planes but if that’s the only way then c’est le Fer (Chemin de Fer that is). Thanks again.
Cheers from the Heart of the Continent
There are some drawings in one of the Club 760 books on one of the StLB lines, but VERY small. Your best bet would be to buy the H0e model from Roco, cheap as you can get them for $200 US, and they are a nice little model that runs as well as they look.