Hi everybody!

I am a long time fan of LIMA, my grandpa gave my first set in the early 80's and since then I have an outstanding passion for this brand.

I speak several languages (unfortunately my knowledge of Italian is poor and my Deutsch is non-existant almost) and I love traveling by train whenever possible (although Argentina's trains have been practically destroyed in the past 20 years). I have just arrived from a recent trip in Italy where I have traveled from Rome to the Swiss border always by train and taking tons of photos.

I have built my very own layout although right now I'm more fond of making dioramas. As of now I'm working on my very own version of Landwasser viadukt.

I am the owner of a blog posted at the section "friends links" and my biggest goal is to make a roster compiling each and single LIMA product ever built. I have been working on this project for more than 1 year and I do hope to finish it soon. I do have most of the catalogues, but I still lack some of the 80's and many of the 90's. So if any soul wants to share it over with me I will be very grateful.


Cheers!!!

Hi! Thank you

No. My idea is not to collect each and single unit produced by LIMA but to make a file containing its data. That is what I'm referring to when speaking about a roster: an excel spreadsheet where to gather all relevant data (such as item on catalog, number, livery, legend, wagon type, etc etc). Here's a print screen of a sample search of article #9102 (it's in spanish but I guess you can get the idea)





As of now, and after a whole year of processing data, I have browsed through most of LIMA catalogs since the early 60's (with some gaps between 86-89 and 94-99 mostly) and transcripted the details to this file. It is still a Work in Progress so once complete I expect to share it with all fans. That's why I'm still looking for missing catalogs!

Regards

Indeed! What you say about the catalogs it's true. For instance in 1977 I have the Italian, German and Japanese version, each of them with different models.
I have encountered lots of misfits around the road, especially using the same number for different models, but I have catalogued nearly 10,000 articles so far (considering the same model produced in different years) and I would like to finish the process with those catalogues I still don't have yet.

It's a difficult and challenging task, I have been embarked for 12 months so far, but I am still enthusiastic and have learnt a lot about model and real trains in the meantime.

I am open to any contribution or comments of course!!!

ps: Great photos you have in your website, although some of them are a bit tiny.

Zitat von kokomo im Beitrag #5

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Indeed! What you say about the catalogs it's true. For instance in 1977 I have the Italian, German and Japanese version, each of them with different models.

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Vielen Dank! ありがとう!

Hello and welcome,

hope to find some of your pictures on these sites in the near future.

Kind regards from Germany
Jim Knopf

Thanks!

Hello!

I mentionjed some time back ago that I was working on a Roster project.
Finally, and after more than 15 months of work, I feel comfortable on sharing a file with you.
Please feel free to download it and take a look at it, I am more than open on receiving feedback and corrections/suggestions.

One foreword though: it's in Spanish. I guess with all those translators going online you will not find it difficult to understand the basics. I do hope to get an English version later on. But at least you can toy with it for a while.

Cheers

https://app.box.com/s/injoll9l26trsd1vebkptphwfaicgvzr

It's incomplete, but I wanted to translate at least the headers of the file so you can get a grasp of what's inside. I do hope to translate all the file once I got it more completed. For the time being I do hope this helps. Cheers