Sorry about the lack of posts this past month. It's been difficult to find time to work on the layout with other commitments getting in the way. I thought I'd do a quick post today.
The DB logo is quite well known, but I didn't know that the name of the state corporation that controls the German railway system was DBAG until I started modeling. During reunification, West Germany's Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway) merged with its eastern counterpart, Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railway) back in 1994. The DB stands for Deutsche Bahn, but I only finally figured out what AG stood for today. In its expanded form, it is "Aktiengesellschaft,""which translates to "stock corporation". I always thought it was GmbH. Our German office uses the GmbH acronym. I guess it is equivalent to our Ltd, Corp and Inc which all indicate a corporation versus a partnership or private ownership.
I had often heard others refer to the old term "Bundesbahn", which initially confused me because I always thought it was just, "Bahn". As it turns out they were modeling in Era III / IV whereas I was only familiar with Era V. It took me a bit of time to sort out that confusion.
Oh I forgot to mention that I picked up the remainder of my track bumpers for the railway station. I have all ten of them now. I also received my shipment of curved turnouts, but I haven't had an opportunity to connect them to the track. I still need to build the benchwork this Spring. The drop in the Canadian dollar really made it more expensive. I wish I had bought them earlier in the Summer.
The DB logo is quite well known, but I didn't know that the name of the state corporation that controls the German railway system was DBAG until I started modeling. During reunification, West Germany's Deutsche Bundesbahn (German Federal Railway) merged with its eastern counterpart, Deutsche Reichsbahn (German State Railway) back in 1994. The DB stands for Deutsche Bahn, but I only finally figured out what AG stood for today. In its expanded form, it is "Aktiengesellschaft,""which translates to "stock corporation". I always thought it was GmbH. Our German office uses the GmbH acronym. I guess it is equivalent to our Ltd, Corp and Inc which all indicate a corporation versus a partnership or private ownership.
I had often heard others refer to the old term "Bundesbahn", which initially confused me because I always thought it was just, "Bahn". As it turns out they were modeling in Era III / IV whereas I was only familiar with Era V. It took me a bit of time to sort out that confusion.
Oh I forgot to mention that I picked up the remainder of my track bumpers for the railway station. I have all ten of them now. I also received my shipment of curved turnouts, but I haven't had an opportunity to connect them to the track. I still need to build the benchwork this Spring. The drop in the Canadian dollar really made it more expensive. I wish I had bought them earlier in the Summer.
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