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Three links for Thursday
Three links for this Thursday. First the BBC visits Baghdad Central station. It’s an interesting and sympathetic article, interviewing a veteran train driver. The state railway’s heyday, when it offered luxury travel to Jerusalem and even as far west as … Continue reading
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Ron’s Rambles #2
More of Ron’s pictures, this time from Leipzig. First, the railways. Seeing the ‘McCafe’ reminds me that the inventor of the Big Mac died this week, age 93. Perhaps he never ate his own invention to get to that age! … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Germany, inspiration, prototype, railway
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Ron’s Rambles #1
A new contributor to the blog for the next couple of days – Ron Dawes, brother of Allan. Ron is on safari in deepest Germany, around Leipzig and Hanover, I think, visiting an eclectic mix of Christmas markets and stations. So welcome, Ron, … Continue reading
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ESNG meeting – 1 December 2016
Well, it was the post-Stuttgart blues tonight. The Cha(I)rman was at home, suffering from the pre-Christmas milk round blues. By 7:45pm, the three of us who were there were seriously considering going home. We did have a look at Martin’s … Continue reading
Back to my childhood haunts
The day before going to Stuttgart, Maxine and I had the privilege of going to the wedding of a Chinese friend of ours. An interesting experience, with the church service in Mandarin, translated back into English for the few English … Continue reading
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Stuttgart 2016 #3 – Other views
A final post from Stuttgart (unless anyone else sends me some photographs.) Just a random selection, once again, of scenes that caught my eye. The Hungarian branch of INGA-net attended the meet for the first time, and their simple, single … Continue reading
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Tagged ESNG, modular layouts, N gauge, Stuttgart
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Stuttgart 2016 #2 – ESNG at play
The ESNG contribution looked, in part, much as a normal club night, with a procession of trains of varying parentage taking to the tracks. The Farish Blue Pullman deserves a mention as it ran faultlessly for all four days. ‘ERIC’ … Continue reading
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Stuttgart 2016 #1 – Stuttgart itself
Last week, ESNG completed its annual pilgrimage to the Stuttgart N-Club meet and show. I went for the full four days this year, for the first time. My impressions of the whole thing – four days is great fun, but … Continue reading
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Layout design – redux – different voices – simple layout, complex operation
The third post, a long way behind the traction ones, is about small, switching layouts. Another interesting voice in the layout design world is Lance Mindheim, who most originally posts at http://www.lancemindheim.com/. He has built a number of very interesting … Continue reading
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Off my trolley – redux – interurban branchlines – 1
This post has always been popular, too…. A good, if rather conventional, place to start with interurban layouts, is the conventional branch line. Some electric railroads were no more than a branch line in total. Others, like the Pacific Electric, … Continue reading
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