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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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Tagged Christmas, Germany, inspiration, prototype, railway
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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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Tagged Layout design, model railroad
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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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Tagged interurban, Layout design, model railroad, traction
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Off my trolley – redux – streetcars and trolley layouts
As I’m in Stuttgart this week, I thought I’d repost the three most popular posts since I started blogging three or more years ago. I’ve updated them a little, too. One difference I note from starting blogging – I cut … Continue reading
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Tagged interurban, Layout design, model railroad, traction
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ESNG PlayDay – 13 November 2016
Another excellent afternoon playing trains. Even more paying members that the last PlayDay – 15 – plus 3 visitors. The treasurer was there to collect the money, too! Miles was in attendance, as evidenced by this partly demolished cake….. Graham and Dave … Continue reading
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