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DavidB-AU

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  1. Operationally this works quite well for the space available. There could be scope for a level frame at the front to work the station throat and junction/crossovers. If you're sticking strictly to left hand running, the track highlighted red doesn't really do anything. That space could be used to make the terminating/platform tracks longer.
  2. I'm pretty sure there have been layouts based on both. On the other side of the pond. Hogan's Heroes poked fun at both sides while mainly making fun of the Germans. One of the more subtle ways they did this was casting Jewish actors to play the most incompetent Germans. A lesser known one is the Bosnian comedy series Konak kod Hilmije set in occupied Sarajevo during WW2. See if this sounds familiar. The main protagonist is an innkeeper who pretends to collaborate with the Germans while secretly working with the partisans. The main German character is secretly gay and terrified of being sent to the Russian front. There is ongoing tension between the partisans and the Chetniks. There are two partisans hiding in the cellar of the inn.
  3. Home for NSW’s Rail History opens in Sydney’s West NSW Railway’s historic locomotives and carriages have found a new home in the heart of Western Sydney. The $9.4 million Chullora Heritage Hub is a centralised storage facility for 50 of the state’s 220 heritage locomotives and carriages. https://www.railexpress.com.au/home-for-nsws-rail-history-opens-in-sydneys-west/ So roughly 50 years after the heritage collection was kicked out of Enfield, it's back almost literally next door.
  4. However Strafgesetzbuch 86(a)(3) says the ban does not apply "wenn die Handlung der staatsbürgerlichen Aufklärung ... der Kunst oder der Wissenschaft, der Forschung oder der Lehre, der Berichterstattung über Vorgänge des Zeitgeschehens oder der Geschichte oder ähnlichen Zwecken dient" ("if the act serves civic education ... art or science, research or teaching, reporting on current events or history or similar purposes"). A model or diorama accurately depicting historical events for display in a museum with the proper context would be legal, in the same way it is legal to use banned symbols in a film depicting that period in history (Der Untergang/Downfall being an excellent example).
  5. Where can I find more pics of this layout? Google isn't coming up with anything.
  6. I'd agree with this. Operationally it works a lot better than the Deane pattern station in the OP plan. Goods yard tracks can probably be a bit closer which would give more opportunity to shunt while a main line train is running. I would actually make the storage tracks a little further apart as sometimes have to fit 1:1 scale fingers between them. I would even go as far as something like this to make the balloon on the left as wide as possible.
  7. Even with an access panel in the main yard, there are some places you couldn't be able to reach unless your arms are 7 ft long.
  8. A random video came up in my Youtube suggestions. It's showing cab videos 24/7, all recorded before the war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0SHIpnHzYA
  9. Canberra to Sydney in real time from the cab of a light engine movement.
  10. Sort of. There is a layout of Didcot A power station. https://admrc.org.uk/club-layouts/didcot-a-power-station
  11. VIA rail has some coach and gallery club cars dating from 1947.
  12. The same was said of Bakerloo in 1906. I'm disappointed Goblin didn't become official! EDIT: In the Guardian article the "other side" said this was a missed opportunity to sell naming rights to the lines. Does anybody seriously think the Allianz Line or the Etihad Line or the DodgyOnlineCasino.Com Line would be better?
  13. I can only speak for Australia but I can speak as a past exhibition manager, British (and American) outline layouts are very common here and the 90% of the paying public coming through the door don't mind. Most "serious" modellers don't mind either. Until the 1990s most got into the hobby through Hornby or Athearn. Like anywhere else there is a tiny minority of modellers who will dismiss anything that isn't their chosen scale/prototype. I had some peripheral involvement in helping Ross Balderson build his magnificent Sydney Central in N, assembling some of the controllers for him to meet an exhibition deadline. There were people who flew from other continents just to see this layout, but some locals who I will not name turned up their noses at it because "not HO, not interested". EDIT: I will add that exhibitions should have variety. Unless it's specifically themed like large scale/garden railways or narrow gauge, the public need to see more than a hall fall of BLTs and modern image tail chasers. This is one reason I spent so much time looking at the large German modular layout last time I went to TINGS (before covid).
  14. I remember an American telling me about 20 years ago that 2-rail O was dead and the rest of the world should catch up.
  15. He produced a couple of plans based on European prototypes. One of the Swiss alpine designs was in one of the plan books. There were endless letters in RM in the 80s questioning the sanity of anybody who would want to model "modern image", even going as far as ridiculing Ian Futers modelling P4 that wasn't pre-grouping. I also remember one letter confidently predicting that nobody would ever want to preserve a main line diesel. I've attended exhibitions in 5 countries on 3 continents and there are always elements of "I don't like this therefore it should never be exhibited". Thankfully they are a minority. Personally I enjoy seeing any high quality layout of any prototype in any scale. I never take the view of not being interested in a particular layout because I don't know anything about the prototype. That's an opportunity to talk to the layout builder(s) and find out!
  16. That's how his channel started. He even posted about it on RMweb at the time.
  17. I agree about the mirror image to avoid all the facing points into dead end sidings. If you're going to use setrack I'd suggest looking at some C.J. Freezer "spare room" layout designs from the early diesel era. Many of these were designed for Triang track, which although it has slightly different geometry it gives you a feel for what can be done and what should be avoided. They were designed for somewhat realistic operation.
  18. The one where they have to evict Harry Potter to make room for you.
  19. There are a lot of very short sidings. Bear in mind that every set of points takes away storage space. Also avoid facing points into dead end sidings where possible. I'd have some concerns about being able to reach the bit on the right in the event of a derailment. Look at prototypes from that era to give you an idea of what track arrangements were in use at the time.
  20. End of an era in Victoria with the last scheduled loco-hauled H set running to Geelong last Friday. As of the last timetable update in November there were only 2 return services each weekday using H sets, one from Bacchus Marsh (replaced by Vlocity DMUs in December) and this one. That's end of 40 years of interurban service which followed 30 years of suburban service as Harris trains.
  21. More from the same gallery of 91s hauling additional bank holiday trains.
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