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Miniatures Adventure => Railway Wargaming => Topic started by: Helen on October 02, 2007, 11:38:39 AM
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Hi Folks, I saw this on the Axis forum and the Great War forum and my thanks goes to them for this story. I've another crazy story about Aussie airmen, but that will be latter after I move in a few weeks. Just trying to keep you guys entertained especially Poly and Peder :)
During the dramatic battles the Bavarian pilots of the Fliegerabteilung 304b in Afula had still some time for crazy ideas. The pilots were disappointed about the long lasting travel from their airfield in Afula to the city Haifa, which was a four hours ride with a very old train for just 60km. They wanted to have a faster travel to go this city. Therefore captain Walz, the Squadron leader, had the genius idea to take a wagon from the train company and ordered to build a 160 hp Daimler plane engine on top of it. His men did as ordered and called this vehicle the Phönizischer Bäderexpress. The order for the 7. April 1918 was: "The first ride will be the day after tomorrow at 8 p.m. after the flight duty. The participation is according the merits. Take bathing trunks with you!" Indeed, with 90km maximum speed they travelled with this machine to Haifa and the surprised Turks were calling "yavas, yavas" (slowly, slowly).
Names on the Photo below:
Der Schnellzug Haifa-Afula: Nr. 1 Kommandeur der F.A. 304 Hauptmann Walz, Nr. 2 Ltn. von Gablenz , Nr. 3 Kommandeur der Flieger Hauptmann Heemskerck, Nr. 4 Ltn. Felmy, Nr. 5 Ltn. Debus, Nr. 6 Ltn. Heussenstamm, Nr. 7 Hauptmann Elias, Nr. 8 Ltn. Haefner.
Picture and text from Dr. Norbert Schwake, Nazareth
The railway from Afula (El Affule) to Haifa - the airfield Afula was taken 20 September by Australian cavalry before all planes and equipment could be evacuated and may of the personnel became POWs. The famous train should be used to evacuate some material and tools but crashed somewhere underway with an opposite travelling train.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s266/HelenBachaus/phoenizischer_baederexpress_194.jpg)[/img]
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Astounding!
A quick translation:
Phönizischer Bäderexpress
phonician bathexpress
Schnellzug
Express
Kommandeur der F.A.
Commander Anti Aircraft
Kommandeur der Flieger
Flight Commander
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Thanks Poliorketes for the translations on a few choosen words 8)
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Fantastic. Sure beats those pump-action things you see in Mack Sennett films!
I want one. It's something nice and small for my 25mm Ned Lawrence to try and blow up, to ease him into it, as it were... :)
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And thus once again, history is stranger than anything we can invent.
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Wonderful! A WW1-era Transrapid! :lol:
Totally pulp. Perfect or the heroes to steal after they rescued the captured lady spy from the clutches of the horrible hun hofficer... er, sorry, officer, that is.
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Helen, I hope you don't mind, but I copied your post to another forum (with attribution) because those guys are interested in the Great War beyond the trenches.
Plus this is amazing. I'm still giggling like a Bavarian on a flying flatcar.
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Guys, I'm happy you like it :) No worries at all Pete - its aways nice to see other forums who maybe interested in something a little different.
With the upcoming release of the flat car from Company B you are well on your way in creating an exciting adventure. 8)
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I was going to save this one until I had some more stuff from the Plynkestine theatre to show off, but what the hell, may as well show it now. I thought Helen might get a kick out of it:
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Der%20Phoenix/derphoenix.jpg)
As she was dashed to pieces, and then rebuilt twice, I have christened her Der Phönix.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Der%20Phoenix/derphoenix2.jpg)
Simplified the design a bit, and it's smaller than the real-life version. That's because the railway in Plynkestine runs on a narrower gauge than the Palestine one, and I had to make do with what rolling stock I could find.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Der%20Phoenix/derphoenix3.jpg)
Our brave Bayerisches lads (is that the correct adjective?) have come into town for some well-deserved R&R. Not quite like the girls back home in the mountains, eh?
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Der%20Phoenix/derphoenix4.jpg)
But the local officials aren't happy. "Tickets, please!"
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Der%20Phoenix/derphoenix5.jpg)
"You can't park that here!" Even in the Ottoman Empire they have 'Jobsworths.'
As usual she looks better than this in real life. The colours look all different and some of the detail hasn't really shown up. I'll perhaps try and take some pictures in better light later.
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That is lovely, Plynkes! I can't wait for you to do a battle report on it. In fact, I expect you to call your sidekick Sickly and have him over for a game this very weekend. :-)
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Yes, I'm afraid we must insist on a battle report. By Monday.
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Just so there are no misunderstandings: by Monday, eighthundred hours sharp or I shall be very cross.
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Prepare to be very cross. This week's game is one of Chronoglide's silly Sci-Fi efforts. Farscape using 5150 or something. I find Farscape somewhat tedious, but he assures me that 5150 is fast-paced, action-packed and lots of fun.
We'll see.
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:x
Oh, well... Ignore us and a nice weekend, then.
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Have Chronoglide brought here, that he may be judged. :x
So this is the doohickey which took the nosedive? I can see why you were so cross.
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This is so unbelievably cool I kept staring at it for minutes. :o :love:
This is what I love most about this forum: the output is simply breathtaking! Casting real scorpions, fascinating swashbuckling tables, recreating weird machinery - whow! :D
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It looks great, just as insane and dangerous as the real thing. :)
The crew and locals look good too.
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Now that's really grand 8) 8) 8)
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As an exotic railway stuff aficionado, I can only say: blistering beautiful. Great detail, wonderfully compact, just perfect. I really need to invade Plynkestine when I come over to the UK in ´10 so we can pit it against my armoured train. Which I´ll still have to build, but who cares.
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Hi Poly, What a fantastic piece of Poly engineering 8)
Well done indeed kind Sir and I look forward in time in seeing an adventure or two and maybe with our interpid Otto at the helm (away from his submarine of course) :)
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Hilarious madman! That's fantastic!
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these mad kraut flymen....
marvellous work Plynkes
"Badhaus mit Tanzenmädchen " - very pulpy ;) lol
thought it was about beach bathing
but this is even better - lots of foam needed in the bathtub and a cold shower before standing up ;D
I will definetely have one of my own - already looking in the bits box for an engine
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One of the rare occasions to second former user 8):
Gorgeous set, Plynkes, and "Badhaus mit Tanzenmädchen" is just brilliant ... lol
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it took me 2 hours to recover :? 8)
"Rrrrrreinnnemackefrrrauuuu"
also an excellent pulp movie with rrreallly evil Dschärmans
they never showed the "Immer Essen" right?
if I ever build a passenger boat, it shall be called "Immer Essen" in honour of Steve Martin
sorry, totally offtopic of course, apart from the pulpy spirit
btw, how comes that this "pulp" cliché is so real when it is about the 20ies?? or that period?
I have a picture of my grandparents from the ... must have been 1928, on a walk in the street, and they look like a couple from a gangster movie, complete with thin moustache
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It's the spirit of the times, you rapscallion ;). My great grandparents too. Good old grandpa with his waxed mustache, ever curling its ends.
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I can see no brakes on the actual thing!
Totally crazy and that years before Kruckenberg´s "Schienenzeppelin"...
"Badhaus mit Tanzenmädchen" is so cool and believably written by non-german speaking locals.
"Badehaus mit Tanzmädchen" would have been correct, but yours is much cooler!!!
By the way "our brave bayerischen lads" if you want a correct german adjective in an english sentence. It has something to do with the complicated german way of giving sexes to nouns.
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Ha! You give me too much credit. It's written in that cool and believable way because I am a non-German speaking local, not because I'm some master of German Pulp! lol lol lol
But I figured that as the sign was written by a Turk or an Arab, it wouldn't matter one jot if he got it wrong.
No brakes is probably why it crashed.
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Oh, and by the way: Regarding this 2007 thread...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c&feature=related
lol lol lol lol
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I can see no brakes on the actual thing!
couldn't they have switched the propleller to reverse? ;)
I know, there isn't any transmission to be seen either