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Thank you Julia. Markuks

Hello Julia, thank you for the information, is it possible to contact him by Email? And did he sold the kits to non members of the 2mm Association? Markus

Hello Julia, no, I'm looking for tank wagons which I could use in the late 60s to the mid 70s for my scottish layout. Where could I purchase the kit from Stephen Harris? Markus

Hello Julia, I wan't to built some anchor tanks like you. At the moment I plan to modify some Parkside Dundas Chassis, but I could wait some time. Markus

Hello Julia, Is there any chance to purchase one or two of the tanker chassis? Markus

Hello Les, by car we started about 7:30 in the morning to arrive at the Westfalen Halle Exhibition Centre about 8:00 in the morning. At these time you will need about half an hour from the hotel to the exhibition, due to traffic jams on the B1. The nearest tramway/subway station is Hauptfriedhof for the hotel and Westfalenhallen for the exhibition centre. Markus

Hello Steve, I wish you a good exhibition. If you stay like me in the Holiday Inn, you should plan to start earlier in the morning for the drive to the exhibition centre. There ususally some traffic jams on the way. Markus

Hello Lisa, may I suggest that you couple the short and long cassette together, so that the short one is next to main track. So when you push the train back the wagons will come to a rest on the long cassette and the engine on the short one, next you uncouple the two cassettes and move the long one towards the track and the short one right from the long one, and couple them both together, now you couple the engine on the train and push the wagons back to the platform. Markus

Hello Kris, I haven't realised the wonky axle until now. Thank you. Markus

Today I made two testruns which I filmed. Here is the result. Markus

Richard, thank you for your compliment. Markus

Today I finished the construction of the last module needed for my railway room. Frist some pictures from the room The Fiddle Yard Module for the future avalanche gallery Further modules the newly built module Leckmelm station Line to Ullapool Ullapool Before the first official train could depart for Ullapool an inspection train will inspect the line The train ready for the ride These pictures and the pictures from the first official passenger train are made by only one trainspotter, no photographs from the local and national press was present. After the successful inspection, the first passenger train could depart for Ullapool. Because there is much mail to be delivered, most of the train ist made of NPCCS. At Ullapool the mail is longingly awaited by the postman, but I think he would have to drive a few times until the mail is unloaded. Markus

A few days ago, I made the first testrun with a train. Yesterday I built the base for the platform. Markus

Today I joined the Ullapool segments for the first time, and the first test runs where also a success. Markus

Today I completed laying the trackwork. After opening a hole for the turntable, and installing the turntable well. I put the missing tracks for my Depot down on the module. Here is the result. Markus

I asked my friend Matthias Hacker, to draw a sketch for my Ullapool station, for a better visualisation. Here is the result. During the tracklaying I missed to drill a hole in one of the throwbars of one turnout. I thought no problem, and tried to drill it after the instalation, but due to the fact, that there wasn't any surface below the middle of the throwbar it broke. So I had to remove the turnout and replace it. Markus

Today I finished the tracklaying except for the MPD area, the tracks there will installed when I receive the turntable. After that I have to install the electric part. The turnouts will be sets either by turnout motors or mechanically. Markus

Now some progress on my Ullapool project. The trackwork is now laid on module 2 and on module 3 there only the tracks that connect with module 4 have to be laid. The next stepts are soldering the wires on the tracks, and cutting the tracks on the joint between modules 2 and 3. Then joining modules 3 and 4 and laying the rest of the track. Markus

Yesterday I attended the so called Silvester Layout from a friend of mine. Every Year between Christmas and the first or second weekend in January he held operating sessions with a modular layout at his home. Here are some pictures and a film I made from yesterday. https://picasaweb.google.com/107465074458422577260/Silvesterlayout20122013?authkey=Gv1sRgCK7E_6fpg7ONTw Markus

Great pictures from a excellent layout. Markus

The last few days I continued with my work on Ullapool. The first tracks and turnouts are glued down with Pattex contact glue. Markus

Thank you for your comments. This is my biggest station project. Until shortly my largest station got 13 turnouts. But now I've got 18. Andy I hope you could show us the first pictures from your new project shortly. Markus

I continued the work on my Ullapool modules, I copied the track plan on 1,5mm MDF for the trackbed except the harbour area and then cut the trackbed out. The tracks in the harbour area will directly glued to the module. Here are some pictures Markus

After a house move during the summer, I've got a slightly larger railway room. So after my terminus Uig was getting a little old, I decided to change focus of my theme from the Isle of Skye to Ullapool. Here a sketch of the proposed layout. Here is the trackplan for Ullapool. It is based on the Turso. My thanks go to Ben Alder for his help with the plans. Last week I started the construction for the Ullapool modules. Today I copied the trackplan to the trackbase for the first two modules. Markus

Hello Peter and Jamie, these is looking good. Is the castle made from Linka elements? And what are you using for the drywalls? Markus