Germany has always been one of the more respected Railway countries in Europe. Their transport system, combining ICE, IC and Regional trains with busses, trams and metro’s, has always been a fan favorite in Europe, definitely if your country shares their longest border with them. But even the Germans had some issues with the profitably of certain routes. As a solution, in 1950 the Uerdinger Schienenbus was introduced. In the year that the first ones are becoming 67, and thus reach (future) legal retirement age in Germany, Florian (Flogo) has managed to recreate one of them in our beloved bricks.

In his introduction on the German 1000steine.de forum he tells us that this thing is fully motorized, using just one of the two wheel sets of a PF train motor, the other axle hole -without wheels in it- being hidden behind shrouding. As Flogo explains, it can even pull some carriages, just like the real thing did. For this, he has made a separate magnet coupling that can be slid into the front of the VT98. Also, he has tried to stay as true to the original dimensions as possible; hence it’s build 8 wide for maximum detailing and has 7 side windows, just like the real thing.

For such a smal model, it has so many great details, like the springs in the buffers, the revolvers used for the wheel shrouding, the subtle offset on the nose, etc etc.

If you want to see more of this pretty little lady, be sure to check out his post over at 1000steine.de!

Oh and yes, the title is a very bad play on the well known character of Little Red Riding Hood, and the german word for Train; Zug. My sincere apologies for this.