After a false start with a second-hand/recycled baseboard and waiting for Lenz to bring out long announced items, I am now under some pressure from colleagues at the Liphook club to get on with it.!
It really will be a new start and the target date is the club's 2014 open day in October.
Soltendieck is a real place in Northern Germany within commuting distance of Hanover and Hamburg. It is near to Lunberg Heath where the German Forces in this region surrendered to General Montgomery at the
The space available turns out to be quite a bit more than the original plan so we have 2600 x 500 which should allow for some modelling of the "Iron Curtain". A 3 section baseboard has been constructed and the necessary 3 left hand points purchased, not Lenz, but Peco.
I've always admired the Lenz 0 gauge system since I saw some pictures on their web site. Last year at the Winchester 0 gauge American/ Continental meet I made an "unplanned" purchase of two small carriages and followed that with an "impulse buy" of their "good value" start up set at the German Railway Society show at Sutton Coldfield this year. The set contained a Lok shunting loco, some wagons, track, one point and a Lenz DCC controller.
The loco and rolling stock is DCC fitted for lighting an
