I spent the last two weeks on holiday in the northern Harz Mountains in eastern Germany. Due to severe cold I suffered in the first week I couldn't spent as much time as planned on riding trains on the Harzer Schmallspurbahnen (Harz Narrow Gauge Railway" But last thursday I was able to ride on the Selketalbahn from Stiege (with turning loop) to Eisfelder Talmühle (where the Selketalbahn joins the Harz Querbahn from Nordhausen to Wernigerode" During the summertimbetabel some trains on the Selketalbahn which runs usually with a diesel railcar are exchanged with steam loco hauled trains. These happens from thursday to saturday. I made a short film of my train ride.
It's been now some time after the Great-britN modular meeting.
Since then I decided to scrap my Borve modules, which where a junction station.
So because our group lost a junction, I decided to build a simple junction module.
Here is the actual result.
last weekend I attended the FREMO regional meeting at Hanau near Frankfurt. There we assembled a quite large modular layout in N scale, with timetable operation.
The layout featuered a two track main line from fiddle yard Schattenbach through Karlsruhe Durlach, to Abzweig Hohenrein, there the two track main changed to an single line
main, from there it enters the second fiddle yard Frankental. From Frankental two branchlines emerges. One goes to the Industrial and harbour district, and the second was a branchline
wich goes to the CSSR, cross the Iron Curtain. From Hohenrein, another branchline reached Tettnang. From Karlsruhe Durlach, there was a single track mainline to France.
The timeperiod was the late 1970s to mid 1980s. We've got trains from DB, SNCF, CSD and the private industrial railway which served the industrial district.
At Karlsruhe Durlach and Rittershause (on the french line) there we changed locos between DB and SNCF. At Frankental locos were changed between DB and CSD.
Here is a film I made during the meeting.
From 22nd until 24th the first Great-britN and HafenbahN modular modelrailway meeting was held in Lohr.
Here are some movies and pictures I made during the meeting. The timeperiod set for the meeting was
post 1985. Enjoy it.
Yesterday I was able to visit my friend Dirk, who usually held his Silvester Layout operating sessions during the period after christmas. Due to the increasing rate of infections he decided to cancle these tradition.
But he offered that if we like to visit him we could run some trains on his reduced Silvester layout. I took the opportunity, and we run my bavarian rolling stock, that I have acquired at the Intermodellbau at Dortmund.
And at last there is a short glimpse of a N scale LNER J36 I've building from a Farish C Class chassis and an 3d printed body from Shapeways.
Two weeks ago I attended the modelrailway days with some friends from FREMO with some of our modules.
We operated it according to a timetable. Here are some pictures, and a short movie.
Overview over the exhibition room.
And now some of our modules.
Chemieanlagen Bau (chemical apparatures works)
Wuerzburger Strasse (Wuerzburg street paperworks)
another view of Wuerzburger Strasse
A Regional Express at Emonsfeld (the terminus of these modular arrangement)
Reitershausen quarry works
Sawmill Maleis
Another view of Chemie Anlagen Bau (chemical apparature works)
Houses under construction near Reitershausen railway station
Another view of Reitershausen quarry
View from the quarry towards the sawmill
Regional Express at Reitershausen
A Regional Bahn and a Regional Express awaits the crossing with a through goods train
Today I get the confirmation that I could attend next years Irivine show of the Kilmarnock & District Model Railway Club.
It would be great to go to Irvine for the show.
Today I made a short movie, showing a cabride through my station Borve which is under construction. These movie was made with a lighter spy camero so the quality is not so good.
Last weekend I attended a FREMO meeting at Hanau with the Isle of Skye modular layout. During the meeting I made a short movie showing the first runs of my to DCC converted Class 27.
In July I will held an module meeting with some friends. There will be a british arrangement with modern diesel traction and a heritage train. And there will be a continental modular arrangement with a harbour railway related theme.
Here I show you the british modul arrangement. On the top will be Penzance station, then there will bei the stations Borve (Junction station) and Uig (terminus). There will be the halts Earlish (after the fiddle yard) and Romesdale (between Borve and Uig)
and we will have a MPD between Borve and Penzance.
The continental arrangement will follow.
With only about 2 Month until our Great-britN meeting, I started with the construction of the firt of the tree required modules. I called it Glenbogle Viaduct.
For the viaduct I used a Scalescenes kit. After the viaduct was built, I started the construction of the module.
Today my Borve modules get their legs. And I placed the modules in my hallway.
Then I assembled my other modules in my railway room.
Now I could measure the distance between Borve and my layout for building the
missing module.
As some of you know the Isle of Skye modular N scale layout was exhibited at the Irvine show 2012 held by the Kilmarnock & District Model Railway Club.
We are now back from Irvine. We had a great week there. Bill and the members of the Kilmarnock & District Model Railway Club are very hospitaly and give us a great time.
We enjoyed the Irvine 2012 show.
Pictures I made during the week could be found here. https://picasaweb.go...CLz7y7PwrtXklQE
And here are two videos I made. The first is from the trip to Scotland and the second is from the exhibition.
Today I received two parcels with new motive power. In the first parcel was a GraFar Class 20 which a friend of mine (MacRat) resprayed in the green livery and numbered it D8032.
In the other was the Class 27 Body shell from Its N Gauge, which will run on a GraFar Class 33 Chassis.
Here some pictures.