Die Geschichte von PIKO

you don't want anyone to say yes yes model railway what is that a toy isn't it I never rode with my mother I've only done crafts since I can remember I know railways and Pico Woltmann's first railway became one there Real railway models, says technology historian and specialist journalist Franz Recht. The merit of the Pico designers, the idea bearers of the VFB Co. company, can only be given credit for the fact that, I would say, they also managed to make mainstream enthusiasts see . that model railroads are not toys, but rather consumer goods, which even required scientific considerations in their development.

Many peak models from the 1950s bear the signature of Karlheinz Brust: express train cars, freight cars or steam locomotives. The Sonneberg employee from the beginning is now 86 years old and started working on January 1, 1952. The most important thing in his designs were exact scales, so his locomotives and carriages adapted perfectly to the new demands. with CVP Co with Car he became a pioneer in construction. We had ideas about what we wanted to do. We had also talked about a temptation that we all did. For a small program we made what was supposed to be a tractor and a locomotive. a steam locomotive, an electric locomotive and André rescued, the developers decided on the four-axle diesel wagon VT 137.

In 1952 it began to be mass produced. Here the world of Pico's early years is animated again. Peter Heumos from Zeuthen had the idea for this unusual history lesson on rails, so the material found on the system is actually from the early 1950s. The system itself was not built until 2002. The Wooden sleeper tracks integrated into the system are a product of the K+K company. Atlas again, who produced for the figure, is particularly proud of his first fico machine, the stylized curls e101 was under the Christmas tree for him in 1950, you shouldn't think it was possible, but nothing broke but the locomotive It works like the first day.

Of course, after so many years it has to be dismantled and cleaned, but nothing broke on the locomotive, as if by a miracle, although the frame and the casing are made up of ten groups, the interest rate did not drop beforehand and The lottery continues shining Old Kleins, each model is a contemporary witness, each model has its own story. This casing was also developed in Chemnitz. At that time it was planned to launch a 64 series on the market, but since then. You'd probably have some problems with the pre-order, Bio never made a Series 64. But in the meantime they developed a quad motor, namely this one, so they just slapped the already existing zinc housings of the Series 64 on top of a quad motor. couplings and then called the entire series 81, a locomotive that never existed in the first place when they were 72 years old.

With eight pieces on display, the H0 1 87 scale miniature world is always densely surrounded. It is the surf of children who look at the installations and who intuitively recognize that the real toy was the one that was produced 60 years ago for children and that they are mostly older people, however, sometimes your eyes light up and you stop in front of him and you realize, oh yeah. , that was also my railway when I was a child. The history of Sonneberger Pico begins in this factory of the former VW Oberlind electrical installation. Later, the company looks towards the city center, where there is now free space to walk.

There the coveted toys were used. In 1962 VW Pico was founded. The mere brand became the name of the company. René Wilfer believed and believes in the fascination with small trains. In 1992 he bought Pico from the consortium. signed the contract the next day took a look Sonneberg past the first day when we got here everything was there again my wife and I walked around here for the first time everything was quiet the first day of work there was no one there and we took a look In our new store we were a little surprised. What could be found here with old machines and a lot of dirt and a lot of garbage in the corners, with the products of that time, in addition to electricity, we were already loaded. , there were many shadows.

The peak quality was quite comparable in terms of details and also in terms of quality, they were on the same level, sometimes even a little better than what was available in the West. In terms of the quality of the drives, in terms of the quality of the materials, they were nowhere near the quality of the West German product. Quality that was the first task that today's 62-year-old man managed to achieve. In 2006, Pico surprisingly introduced its first garden model railway. Bernd Möschl, a native of Sonneberg, heads the corresponding development department. Work on the new de will be delivered in autumn.

After work, Bernd Möschl exchanges his black polo shirt for the blue one of his railway friends from Sonneberg. Then the model railroad developer becomes a player in the model railroad club founded by his hometown in 1966. It's clear that he mostly shoots peak material. Club circles already had it about 20 years ago. Starting with the club's facilities on a scale of 187, the men around its president Ralf Kalb had planned something analogous, but the new technology did not stop at model trains, then the first open day in the education was in 1999 and it had to be done overnight, it was said that we, of course, are always allowed to exhibit our online there when it is presented to half the republic with the highly competitive teams for it and at that time we said that We would present everything now that we had the idea before anyway for a short time, but the qualification forced us to an old system.

I love the Piko v 180 diesel locomotive, simply silent, digitally, offers perfect sound, it's a shame that model railroaders can We don't impress any women with this trick at the moment we no longer have women in the past, unfortunately they too have arrived and that is why men regularly return when the railway friends of Sonneberg are called on a special mission, to For example, at the time of cleaning and repair in the German toy museum, the association has been taking care of the miniature railway system for years. , there is also an authentic Pico railway, a knife-type object from the company from the 80s.

The biggest problems are like everywhere else. otherwise the model railway remains dust among dust today different things always logically the appearance wears out because friends are still several kilometers away Portman theories or vacations there is a lot of activity and electricity is everything if you have The last thing is more than 30 years old and there I have to calculate that I have to intervene. Above all, men have to step in when a locomotive like this series 82 runs out of steam, but with the special you have a FICO employee in the club. who takes the defective locomotive to the repair department - the last big thing Railway developer Bert Pöschl was a hexagonal electric locomotive, the so-called crocodile Peschl spent his entire professional life at Pico.

Development began in 1999 with master and. I've been watching it since 2001. I work here in the development department for it. The dream job was already when he was a school student, he worked at Pico during the holidays and played with Pico tracks at home. Today he is 33 years old and develops them. himself the apple does not fall far from the tree. Maybe he is genetically predisposed. Grandpa and Grandpa have oranges on the big tree. Today I'm with the small and big tree and it's just technology, I'm very interested in technology. And there is one thing and another Egon Jacoby was Pöschl's predecessor in the development office.

He wanted to build airplanes in the GDR. The program was suspended. In 1962 he discovered railway technology and started working at VBB Pico. The choir was created from a document about toys, that is, the toys were closely related and responsible for it, or Erich Honecker, who also arrived at Sonneberg then and set the course for almost three decades. Jako, as the face of the Pico models, shaped The locomotives and carriages were mainly intended for the GDR and socialist countries abroad, but they were happy that some models could earn foreign currency. Unfortunately I cannot say in what percentage.

They weren't large amounts, but at least. We had a representative company in Nuremberg, the Schreiber company, which supplied us with the entire German market. Among the Pico models that circulated in the West was the steam locomotive of the series 66 that the Sonnebergers took as a real model of the Federal Railways. the model also for the series 38, the Saxon carriage, in the former Federal Republic the signals were green, the Fürstenfeldbruck railway newspaper wrote at the time, which means that Willi Corsa, no known model of railway capacity, wrote about this car at the time he tested it in our In any case, the car lives up to its name.

It ran without problems for about ten hours. Whoever buys the new pickerl will have a lot of fun behind the wheel of the Opel Corsa for just under 200 German marks. At the end of the 60s, Pico was the most important manufacturer of Hanno Bahn in the GDR, but there were competitors, Goldschicht or Oscar, these brands disappeared from the market at the beginning of the 70s. From then on, most of the products. Under the name Sonneberg we have three examples here: the BN 150, the 75 51 Saxon Series Model based on the Saxon model and the Series 86, as you can see from the packaging, all come from Pico Insiders, of course, know that the three models. were manufactured in Zwickau, specifically by the manufacturer, which since 1971 was called VW Eisenbahn Modellbau Zwickau and in that case a package was carefully examined and the model railway manufacturer VW Series 86 was always in it, Zwickau Pico was the leading company and, therefore, Pico.

It was printed on it, which means that not every place that said organic also said organic. At the end of the GDR there were around 1,600 employees. Egon Jacoby as an engineer was head of development and always had the highest demands. For example, in the cargo control that we used for the first time on BR 01, we had a lot of problems with customers because parts broke. When you touched it, there were always very slight breaks that could have been ruled out if you had had the right material. It is a peripheral phenomenon in the history of Fiko, the futuristic railway in the style of the Transrapid model is much older. that christian young hahn white wanted brown metal prices also at that time what was available to me at that time developed them to build rails which later became the toy that you made famous because we are also on the rise we can see them in the catalog until 1965 and a hydraulic power plant Christian Jung Hahn runs his own museum of small models in Waldenburg.

His H0 installation, in the style of the 50s and 60s, seems old-fashioned. The roads and buildings are all from the back. back then, like rolling stock. This is something very special. It was my father's first train that I bought in 1956. It was a Pico company stopping package with 80 baggage cars and two passenger cars, a real vintage. Branch line car manufactured by Pico since 1963. The almost 50 year old model is still reliable and whatever it is, it is a semi-robust technology and I can say that it breaks relatively little. Changing the coals, changing the grinder, which. Maybe it attracted attention because there was nothing else, it seemed to clean and then run and run and run and run, also since the 60s the green electric locomotive and the peak silver Knox steel cars wanted to become big in France with the Christian Junghann museum .

It is currently under construction. The boss is expanding the facilities for the 70s and 80s. His Waldenburg model railway world opens three times a week and then he always talks. Visitors can learn more about the big and small stories about the model railways of the GDR at a more leisurely pace. friend Jörg Krautheim's passion for model railways. The turner from Leuna has been collecting vintage locomotives and carriages for 15 years. His apartment is now also a museum of sorts, but the treasures remain hidden from the public. , the NOAA Pico, built from 1961, in the shades of red for Denmark, green for Belgium, light red for Hungary and, meanwhile, the silver version arrives at the base, which was very striking and which was also manufactured with electricity. of things that only come from models The difference is not only external: in this chassis, which was manufactured around the year 61, rubber drives were used, that is, without gears, a drive followed directly on the rollers.

It came with the gear motors, which were later used in this one as well. He uses the French SNCF 7001 via the Internet, keeps in touch with like-minded people and always seeks information that goes beyond the knowledge of the common model railroader, which is why he came across the unusual story of a rare freight car. , HEIt is about the so-called Karl Kübel wagons, which were currently not mass-produced, which is why he turned to the ingenious inventor of the DMV model railway association. With the idea of ​​producing it as a pop craft sheet, now after the fall of the Berlin Wall Berlin, Pico took this car and builds it with excellent quality, Pico model of the series 56, in one of the largest railway models.

In Hohensicht, near Flora, in central Germany, and in just four years he is railway director of Hüttinger, he laid three and a half kilometers of tracks and installed 220 switches so that the display models from his grandfather's father's collection would finally could disappear in Beijing. They were relatively complete, I think there was almost no rolling stock, since the GDR times were not compatible. Most of the time there are many organic models that are taken out of the box after 20 years. railway and also have short starting difficulties, quite normal in good condition, sometimes there are problems with the newer models, greetings to the ladies, the head of the company Wilfer, traveling in his kingdom, doing everything at the end of the month, making model railways.

It also means in the 21st century partly manual work, especially in assembly and mainly in the hands of women nothing has changed some of them have been for decades ip co brigitte eichhorn example since 1972 today I make the crocodile that secretly knocks on the home Inside and there are still 160 jobs in Tchibo, in Sonneberg, three quarters of them are occupied by women, another 400 people work in the new pick factory in China. Of course, we also have an advantage in China. disadvantage, like you have to control everything in detail, you have to be behind almost all the works, you have to have an inspector there for about three years since then, my technical manager and I take turns flying over them monthly.

We have made the company run efficiently and since last year we are also profitable and I think that is a relatively good achievement after three years. In the end, all the little trains have to go out to the people. , the model railway specialist shouted to René Wilfer, the package was first launched through a discount store instead of, as usual, through specialist stores. However, the storm of indignation was for him from the beginning one in the glass of water. , it didn't take long until the specialist realized that for him this was the best thing that could happen to him, that thousands of starts were sold and that people could continue with the hobby.

Yes, what do they do because they can? They don't go to discount stores to buy tracks and so on, they go to specialty stores. The 62-year-old masters the marketing keyboard perfectly and goes to the Nuremberg toy fair every year with new glasses. attention Throughout the industry there are now a series of eye-catching models always at the service of the company glasses iq questions what does the peak mean what year was you should look in the catalogs is it all there or does the old still remember the glasses that a pair of glasses that I have Back then, my friend did what I did back then.

How we came out with the pickaxe was the best publicity. Barth wants to have the photos of him on the nose or you can see what not. which are also very nice glasses, which are here and there up If you use the dose, you can move it René Wilfer believes that electric train models are far from being left out. He shares his optimism is not for. With computers or game consoles, the golden age of small trains is over. Personally, I think that the hobby of model trains is not something that is going to grow, which is why, if you look at the evolution of prices, you are afraid of the game. ball that comes almost out of nowhere without really offering the children of our youth something they can afford, it will not be that serial number that connects the future will be so bleak The former development director of Pico did not beat Jacobi in the future The model railway offers many facets of use, from the model itself, which one or another likes to play with, to electricity, electronics or construction or landscaping, there is an incredible variety of possibilities.