01-30-2018, 02:34 PM
Thanks for your warm comment, Doc!
Yes, we had a good time time for "playing" with trains, with switching on the switch yard outside of the oval and especially each of us could run his favorized trains and models, mostly the own. Me as a sample have run my Sacramento Daylight and my 1930 train in most cases with the newly digitalized CA&Y 2-6-6-0 mallet in front, the original D&SL mallet and with my small N&W G1 seeing on last picture which had to switch the coal cars at backside of coal tower so the hoist could and must work and after the loco has taken coal on frontside under the working chute - all in all a well working model without each failures now.
A lot of model builders under visitors asked after methods of building such wood structures and most of them were very surprised that the tower is made from a kit after American style - a hand full of different wood strips and 20 pages of instructions. The European model builder knows especially the typical kits from here - four walls, a bottom plate and two roof halfes and maybe a bit scenery materials. All! Of course, a bottle plastic glue. Wooden craftsman kits are absolutely unknown here in Germany.
So I had a lot of discussions around the coal tower and it was sad that I could not finish the water tower by adding a working water filling tube before the exhibition. However a next time will come and last details of museum will be added then.
A member of our group has filmed a lot of scenes with running trains and also around the coal tower and I'm sure that he will design and cut a nice looking video in next days. You, Doc, and all can be sure that I will post a link to this video if it will be ready and published for publicity.
Yes, we had a good time time for "playing" with trains, with switching on the switch yard outside of the oval and especially each of us could run his favorized trains and models, mostly the own. Me as a sample have run my Sacramento Daylight and my 1930 train in most cases with the newly digitalized CA&Y 2-6-6-0 mallet in front, the original D&SL mallet and with my small N&W G1 seeing on last picture which had to switch the coal cars at backside of coal tower so the hoist could and must work and after the loco has taken coal on frontside under the working chute - all in all a well working model without each failures now.
A lot of model builders under visitors asked after methods of building such wood structures and most of them were very surprised that the tower is made from a kit after American style - a hand full of different wood strips and 20 pages of instructions. The European model builder knows especially the typical kits from here - four walls, a bottom plate and two roof halfes and maybe a bit scenery materials. All! Of course, a bottle plastic glue. Wooden craftsman kits are absolutely unknown here in Germany.
So I had a lot of discussions around the coal tower and it was sad that I could not finish the water tower by adding a working water filling tube before the exhibition. However a next time will come and last details of museum will be added then.
A member of our group has filmed a lot of scenes with running trains and also around the coal tower and I'm sure that he will design and cut a nice looking video in next days. You, Doc, and all can be sure that I will post a link to this video if it will be ready and published for publicity.
Cheers, Bernd
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Please visit also my website www.us-modelsof1900.de.
You can read some more about my model projects and interests in my chronicle of facebook.