13/06/2026
The original OHLE on Belmont Bahn was Viessmann but I was never really happy with it, nothing to do with the product at all, more to do with the way I installed it so out it came.
For a while I thought about not replacing iut, but I do have a fair sized fleet of OHE locomotives & there is no way I will run them without OHLE or, perish the thought with the panto's dowm.
After some time it was replaced using mostly Sommerfeldt with a couple of Viessmann bits and the excellent hand built gantries by Bill Roberts.
However, there was a problem of how to fix the masts as BB uses Kingspan for the baseboards, eventually I modified the bases as per the image.
The result is a nicely tensioned system strong enough to take a panto off should it slip off !
The (poor) image shows how I modified the masts from the standard (LH) to the modified.
The masts are painted German Grey and the wires Japanese Army Green.