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Vals
Roger Epps and Nathan Bridge chose to model in HOm a station in the upper reaches of the Valser valley on a line proposed but never built by the Rh?§tische Bahn.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Schweizer Kleinstadt
Chris Atkinson has built a new Z gauge exhibition layout, depicting a typical small town in Switzerland.
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N?ºrnberg 2020
The first part of our comprehensive coverage of the extensive model railway section of this international toy and hobby fair deals with HO. Next month – N, Z, TT, O, 1, narrow gauge, and G, plus structures and scenics.
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Le Vicinal ?† Vresse
An evocation of SNCV/NMVB line 553 – Jan Martens has created a convincing HOm impression of a typical Belgian local metre gauge tramway.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Cap Sacr?©
More Tramways de la Corr?®ze than Vivarais ‚Äì Peter Dale has modelled in HOm a small town station on a French int?©r?™t local metre gauge line.
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SNCF CC72000
To augment his feature in the recent CM French Special, Gordon Wiseman offers more illustrations of a widely used high power mixed traffic diesel
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Cambach v. d. H??he
As the Spur O Freunde Worms, Klaus Fischer and Sascha Fliegner got together to build a sectional layout for exhibitions depicting a branch line in Hessen.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
The Bridge at Remagen
Al Turner was inspired to create an accurate 1:160 scale model of the Ludendorff Bridge across the Rhine, with an impressive collection of authentic train consists. The layout is due to be at Model Rail Scotland at the SEC Glasgow from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd February.
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BR52 Kriegslok
Uwe Lacina looks briefly at the origins of the Deutsche Reichsbahn Gesellschaft BR52 2-10-0, an austerity measure for wartime mass production. With scale drawings by Benno Wiesm?ºller.
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Reckingen
A passing station on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp: Jean-Pierre Muratore replaced his previous Swiss layout with a new scene, designed for easier exhibiting.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Zweifelsfall
A rural narrow gauge branch terminus – Lucien Eijdems has created an attractive HOe layout that is easy to transport and interesting to operate.
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Grand Street and Three Rivers City
Sir Rod Stewart has taken a long time to create an extensive and impressive American city scene in HO. We get a rare glimpse of this amazing achievement.
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Oberwei?übacher Bergbahn
At the top of an incline from valley to plateau: the Rudolstadt model railway club in Th?ºringia model an unusual and distinctive local prototype in HO.
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Ammobaux
A First World War scene modelled in OO9: Richard Pike built a diorama to fit in a suitable box.
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Renon Construction
Alessandro Rusin recreated in 1:35 an evocative scene from the construction of the rack-fitted Rittnerbahn with a loco loaned from Trieste – Opicina tramway.
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S?ºd Harz Eisenbahn
Modern metre gauge might-have-been: Paul Steedman has created a modular HOm layout, imagining that a former part of the Harz network has been re-opened.
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Ulvaryd Strand
A Swedish odyssey: Charles Insley has created a layout in HOe that is easy to transport and a pleasure to exhibit. It will be at Expo Narrow Gauge on 26th October.
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Gare de Brindille
Chris Hopper has built a small layout in a large scale, depicting the War Department Light Railways in SM32 with an impressive level of carefully observed fine detail.
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De Graafstroom
An authentic South Holland scene, set in 1947, with a 1,067mm (3'6") gauge tramway modelled in P87n3.5 by noted fine scale modeller Vincent de Bode.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
S??ller
Chris Hales describes his unusually themed Z layout, which was inspired by a holiday in Mallorca.
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Bw.D?ºgelskirchen
Doug Tompkins describes his new portable HO layout, a small German diesel depot set in Epoch IV.
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Marx Engels Platz
Bill Roberts describes his German N exhibition layout, a close interpretation of a real location in Berlin.
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Clearwater Harbor
Steve Waterfield describes his American On30 layout, which features a working quayside ore tippler, as having evolved rather than being designed.
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Ga Long Bien
Thomas Schmid introduces his latest animated diorama, an urban tramway scene in Thailand modelled in 1:35.
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Rusinowo
Experienced modeller Sebastian Marsza?Ç has built a new HOe layout that is easier to exhibit, representing a narrow gauge branch terminus in rural Poland.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Clear Creek & Denver RR
Martin Philpott guides us around his extensive scenic American On30 layout, which fills a sizeable shed.
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Brohltalbahn diesel D5
G?ºnter V??ller shows how he modelled a large German metre gauge diesel hydraulic in G by adapting a popular proprietary model. With scale drawings by Ing. Horst-Dieter Hettler.
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Four Feather Falls
Ernie Melville relates how he persuaded other members of the Cupar & District MRC to build an American narrow gauge layout prompted by the Bachmann Spectrum On30 range.
PLAN OF THE MONTH
Nordhafen
Roger Nicholls returns to European HO modelling with a compact quayside scene set in northern Germany.
EDITOR'S PICK
Erzbergbahn
Ore, rack, steam, and snow – an unforgettable experience: Guy Tyteca recalls a January 1976 visit to the famous mountain line in Austria while it was still steam worked.
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Dietrichsdorf
Stephen Davies changed from his customary N to HO in order to experiment with DCC and learned a lot modelling a commuter station in northern Germany.
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Turtle Field
Jean-Fran?ßois Perrissoud welcomes us to a small town in the Rocky Mountains which he has modelled in N and now forms the first part of a larger project.
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Broadford extended
Iain Hunter explains how construction challenges were met to make his Australian HO layout even longer giving a significant increase in storage yard capacity while still being transportable in the same vehicle.
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Unteres Pre?ünitztalbahn
Steffen Spittler describes his authentic Sachsen HOe layout, depicting two stations on lower section of the Pre?üniztalbahn, the upper part of which is now a successful museum line.
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Salsdorf
Norman Raven reveals how acquisitions of attractive stock eventually prompted an easily portable German TT layout.
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