Hi folks!
I thought it's time to have a own thread for my layout under construction.
It's called Maximilianhafen because that was the actually alloted name for my hometown.
But surprisingly died king Max(imilian) and Ludwig became King of Bavaria and my hometown became a city under the name Ludwigshafen.
Hafen is the german word for "harbour".
Because I like High-Speed-Trains it will be free-lanced "on earth, advanced industrial country, presence".
Inside my home I've a room 2 x 10m for a storage yard (and later an indoor layout connected to this on top ).
The room has an tunnel through the walls of my home in the garden.
In the garden I plan to built two double track lines.
One as a electriefied and modernised line with origins from the 19. century, the other as a up-to-date HSL with slab track etc..
The HSL will have many bridges.
I will use DCC Digital with Roco Z21 and Smartphone via W-Lan.
For track I will use Code 83 material from Peco, Tillig, Walthers (also for Points) and Roco (only Flex).
But I will also use selfmade points (mostly for the HSL with large radii and small branch angle) and thanks of having a 3-D-printer I will have slab track by using Peco Code 83 and Tillig Code 83 rails.
And naturally there will be a big central station.
Modern style and with all tracks and platforms under a big hall. Model for the concourse is Zaragoza-Delicias.
The HSL will have differend catenaries as following:
- German style (as you might find on the ICE HSL)
- Italian Style (as you might find on the Florence-Rome-HSL)
- French Style (TGV lines, what else...)
- Chinese Style (as on the Chinese HSL)
Only for show .
The other line will also be electrified in conventional style typically for Germany (former West, former East, former Reich), France (25kV AC), Italy and Switzerland but I'm also think about making parts in the style of Amtrak's North East Corridor and I'm looking around for other interesting catenaries I can model.
So, that should be enough to open the theme .