aussietmrail Posted October 29, 2017 Share Posted October 29, 2017 Hi Thomas, are you back home from visiting family in Northern Germany and back into your layout construction looking forward to seeing a video of your first train run be pure awesome. Yeah it is quite hot here to for October, 36 degrees today and steamy already so no work out side yesterday it was 33 degrees in under the pergola, I changed some points and cross over to the new sadly small track plan in length, on Saturday added yet another small block . Thanks for the info of your dog, a question will he respond to you if you spoke to him in English. Be starting a new thread on my model Ro, Ro ship, finely worked out the hull height, very hard with out a proper plan to go by , the bridge height comes into it as well for clearance. Another question do you know the European container heights are they the same height as the US ones, the Australian containers are smaller in height. A question do you know the heights of the European containers are they the same size of the US ones. Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQ Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 The standard external height of UK containers is 8ft 6 inches, However there are Now "Hi-cubes" which are 9ft 6 inches tall, which why we are getting so many bridge strikes at the moment, when the lorry driver forgets his load is 1 ft higher than normal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted November 1, 2017 Author Share Posted November 1, 2017 Hello Tony Yes I'm back, but now it's cold here. Ok it's November, so it should be cold. But I think with the outdoor part of my layout I'm in the winter pause now. The containers in Europe follows the international standards. Best Regards Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Hi Thomas, how cold is it now for November, it is quite mild over here, dropped down to 16 degrees today very unusual for this tie of the year, rain predicted all week, no work on the layout during the week we are in election mode here in QLD, election on the 25th of November, I am going out with a friend driving the MP's ute and trailer great job, go out for a few hours, I am booth Captain at one of the pooling booths too full on day. This give you a chance to work on the railway station in the shed and kits, I have heaps of kits that belonged to my uncle,I have enough to model a country town, only needing to buy a church and corner pub, chance to ad in a branch line. Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted November 8, 2017 Author Share Posted November 8, 2017 Hello Tony et all! The weather is wet, cold and gray. The photos show a perspective that will not go later. Then there is layout where I stood now. You see the later bottleneck on my layout, the exit from the house to the three-level point.This route will only be double tracked and the only access from outside to the house. I photographed out of the house into the garden. Now the shadow station in the house will be completed. Best Regards Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 Hi Thomas, looking good, be looking forward to seeing progress pics of your station complex, changes to my station may never be able to my version of Sydney Central station building , looking for another station building , came across this one , not bad, have you heard of the station , I like to get hold of more pics . http://www.philobiblon.com/eisenbahn/hauptbahnhof.shtml I be only having 5 terminus platform track but will still use two of the platforms for the Indian Pacific, splitting the train in half, lots of shunting, that train pulls 28 cars, only one service a week now, no work on my layout I think I said Queensland Is on election mode and I am out with a friend driving around in our sitting MP's ute and pulling her trailer, great job, free coffee as well , voting day is on the 25th , two weeks left. It is rainy here today, rest day, might be able to work on the layout tomorrow, want to get stuck into finishing off the new front car port end corner module . Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted November 16, 2017 Author Share Posted November 16, 2017 Hello Tony That station is totally self made by this guy. The architectural style is typical for Germany in the 1920s and 1930s until Hitler came to power. The central stations of Duisburg, Stuttgart, Kaliningrad or Oberhausen represent that style until today. Many more stations like these are gone in the war Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 Hi Thomas, not a bad station, I could use it, no pics of the platform side, yeah sadly that happened during the war, I am still deciding what to do with my station building now, don't think I will build the other three modules, it is starting to warm up as well. Weekend off from the election campaign and it is raining and set in for the day, can't even do any painting on my two Santa Fe F7/B loco shells , they need to have an undercoat, black shells, modelling Santa Fe's Super Chief , all 4 locos are powered be pure awesome when painted, at least the B locos are a plain silver colour with strips . How are you going with your layout progress. Tony from wet down under keeping on moving ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 Platforms of... ... Oberhausen Hbf https://goo.gl/images/8NJH84 https://goo.gl/images/oyHjya .... Kaliningrad Pass. ex Königsberg Hbf https://goo.gl/images/KiQtCR https://goo.gl/images/2D2yQS ... Duisburg Hbf https://goo.gl/images/9BwKCR https://goo.gl/images/PJWmrw https://goo.gl/images/B1RGYa ... Düsseldorf Hbf https://goo.gl/images/hxy2H7 https://goo.gl/images/Zgv3EN https://goo.gl/images/rydHoj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 The station deisgn is very interesting. The platforms are sort of an inversion of what one normally sees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted November 21, 2017 Author Share Posted November 21, 2017 (edited) 10 hours ago, traingeekboy said: The station deisgn is very interesting. The platforms are sort of an inversion of what one normally sees. It is called "Schwebende Hallenkonstruktion", literally suspended hall construction. The idea was to have a better deduction of steam and smoke. And that works. Stuttgart and Duisburg still have them today, Düsseldorf and Oberhausen also had them but changed to a simple platform roofing or replaced by a new type of hall construction. Kaliningrad still had a conventional station hall and still has it today. But Stuttgart will loose this when the new underground called Stuttgart21 is finished and also for Duisburg exist plans to renovate the station and create a new roof and buildings on top of the platforms. Edited November 21, 2017 by ThomasI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 Hi Thomas, I have agree with Griff, some of those station building are very stunning one I saw is a bit like the Marklin bloke designed but longer, called Hauptbahnhof has a clock above in the middle building where the access is to the platform, I like the design, still figuring out what to do with my station building, could go that way, would need to see pic of the platform side. It was a very rainy Saturday didn't do much, Sunday a lot better , did some work on fixing up my front corner module, with the set back in September and November , it be be April May before I will see a train run on my layout, full swing next week before it starts to get hot . I am waiting for the ship owners to send me some plans of the ship I am modelling, will be building two models, need the plans for the hull shape on the second model . Who is the weather in Germany going getting cold now, send some cold weather my way, heading over to my post for an update. Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted December 1, 2017 Author Share Posted December 1, 2017 Today it started with snow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted December 1, 2017 Share Posted December 1, 2017 We are having bad weather and heavy rain coming in from down south, predicting 50 mm's on Sunday and a wet summer ahead, will have to keep an eye on the weekly weather report for a fine day can't win, not in the high 40's can work on the rest of the layout in under the pergola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 Wintertime... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Just remember that DCC works in the snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Hi Thomas and Griff, pure awesome to see snow, wow didn't know that with DCC working in the snow, that means you could a run working snow plow, like the pic. Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traingeekboy Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 This snow video was a huge influence on why I decided to go to a garden railway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWSqUSO9vrQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasI Posted December 7, 2017 Author Share Posted December 7, 2017 I plan to use games-on-track which allows me to transmit the DCC signal and energy conventionally over the rails, which also allows me to send DCC signals to special receivers with ultrasound. So I can also use and control battery-powered vehicles. Of course, I will use this advantage above all for clearing trains, be it to pick up dirt, snails or snow from the tracks ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussietmrail Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Morning Thomas , interesting about the DCC games on track, would like to know a bit more, does it clean the track as well, DC has a similar set up as well, sending great power through the track to burn any dirt on the track. With one of my projects I am modelling based on the British network track cleaner MPV loco modifying two DD40AX's , one loco be powered and other a dummy , thinking of battery powering that loco and radio control , to clean the track . http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/31-577A-Bachmann-Windhoff-MPV-Multi-Purpose-Vehicle-Railtrack-Weathered-By-TMC-/261510001326 Christmas for you today , night time here 9.40pm , under three hours to Christmas , we are on holidays at Caloundra sunshine coast , the unit i in a great view in watching ships going past, Port Of Brisbane not far, took lots of pics on my new iPhone 8plus, forgot the big digital SLR camera , had a very good zoom 1400mm, coming back in July next year, got a free night will use it 8 nights. Have a merry Christmas . Tony from down under keeping on moving ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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