A typical short freight in the last years of service on the line. A Di.2.-class hydralic, and a couple of G4 boxcars and the baggagecar, the european version of the american caboose. A trackplan from Po Sporet by Thor Bjerke. All black and white images are from that article and are shot by Thor Bjerke, Per Herman Sörlie and the historical photos Totens Historiska Samling. Color photos by Olavi Ahokas, except for modelphotos by Artitech/NMJ The location of the structures are as follows from left to right, enginehouse, woodchip ramp, freight house, express freighthouse, the station building, a private small warehouse/shed, restrooms and the carshed/warehouse. The north is to the left and south is to the right. The streetside area at the freight house slopes downward, while the road at enginehouse is allmost at the same level as the track. The west side is woodcovered bluff, where the vegetation is s very thick. The road access to yard near the carshed is a dirtroad on heavy grade, the location of the private homes south of the end of the track is well under the tracklevel, if the track would have continued further south, a viaduct would been fairly easy to add since road would have plenty room there. This is sort of the idea i would model it not as a end of the branch, but as the line would continue a few miles to the shore of Lake Mjösa. The scenery in the area is hilly farmlands and woodcovered hills and at south a small town nestled on the sloping valley between a hillside.

Models of the buildings The picturesque station building of Skreia, a work from the arcitecht Paul Due, the design of the station was standard on Gjövik-line and used as the station buildings on several stations including Eina (later with a add on). Artitech/NMJ has produced a line of H0 scale kits of the buildings along the Gjövikline. This model shown, is labeled as Eina, is an accurate model of the station in Skreija The freighthouse, also labeled as Eina is available, which was raized during the fifities. The building in Skreia, which still stands, only differes by different paintjob. The engine house, also labeled as Eina is available without the add on for the railcar. This can be modelled by scratchbuilding it. But never the less it is beautyful model. The outhouse with the restrooms, this building was raized postwar but buildings of same blueprint still stands in Eina and Reinvold. The car shed, the building in Skreia is the last remaining of series of buildings on Gjövik-line. It was in later years as a warehouse.

Rolling stock There have been only a few of models of norwegian prototypes. For years, the only offering was a Märklin Di3, but now there has been a number of offerings of Norwegian prototypes. Steamers, is very much depending on a Collector Models offering of type 18, a pewter craftmans kit, offered int the late eighties. Brass models of class 86 railcars and various trailers was offered by the NMJ. A beauty, with a stiff picetag.... A Di2 pewter and brass kit, using Rocos drive for german V60, is offered by NMJ. The engine fits dead in for late years of the operations. Liliput german VT25 is also avaialble, minus the trailer, perfect for the early fifties, you need just to repaint and decal it. Arcitech announced a model of NSB G4, but I don't know if it was ever produced, Lima offered a very basic, toy like model of the car in the seventies untill the recent years.The Norwegian importer hof Roco offeres in Norway authentic ex. german freight cars, that represents equipment left the by the germans after WWII. Liliput also offered a quartet of freight cars in same way. Quite a few of these still remains as a some MoW cars all around the system. By the way, the Norwegian Boxcar red is more red than what is usual for repaints. If pewter kits are out of your league, you can replace Di2 with a Di5 from Roco and Märklin, now out of production but could be found on various second hand markets. A very nice model of Di3a is offered by Heljan, and Roco will produce Di3b along some other NOHABs fall 2001. It is highly unlikely that DI3.s were ever run on the line, but I guess they would look just nice on modelversion of the line, with a couple or three Lima passangercars behind it.