My father first made this HO layout in 1962.
I was five. He was lucky enough to have a room added to the garage which
was both the tool shed and the train shed. Some engines and parts were purchased
whenever my father travelled to Germany on business. He reminds me that
Hermann Göring (WW2 Luftwaffe Commander) owned a Marklin trainset. I was
finally allowed to have the use of it when I was about 10 years old and
school mates would come over and spend hours, maybe days, with it. The number
of times we had train crashes and accidents it's amazing it survived. That's
a credit to solid German manufacturing!
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The reconstruction phase.  |
A view to the bridge.  |
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When more space became available in my own garage in 2002 I managed to find the base board in my fathers house and started the reconstruction. I tried to recreate it exactly using old photos. Luckily I could use Woodland Scenics for the landscape. Finally in October 2006 it reopened and I seem to have a constant precession of boys from the neighbourhood keen to use it.
The tunnel entrance.
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To a mountainous pass.  |
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