And another railfan from Germany

[Waldbahner]

Hello folks,

I also find my way back to the gauge after a long break. Many years ago, I was an active member and Stephan ( aka Charlie Barret ) brought me back in.

My name is Gerd an I also live in Germany, the south west part. My love for railroads is more than 20 years old and there's still no end in view.
In all these years, I tried a lot of scales and gauges, but finally I ended up with N-scale and 2"-scale.

In N-scale, I collect models of the Southern Railway and will start a modular layout some day. Meanwhile I train my skills on some shunting puzzles and dioramas. My main scope in N-scale is scenery and train operations.

Instead of the scenery lasted N-scale stuff, I build model trains (cars and locos) in 2"-scale, running on 5"-gauge track. I own a live steam 0-4-4 logging Forney and a battery powered Boxcab as also 15 cars and a lot of tracks side stuff. Actually, I build a live steam T-boiler Shay in this scale and I hope to finish her this year.

You will find a lot of pictures and stories about my railroads on my website. All is avaiable in English too => <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.gerds-modellbahn.de">http://www.gerds-modellbahn.de</a><!-- m -->

I hope we'll have a good time here and I like the inspiration that I found on this board. I hope this will never ends too as my love to the model railroads.

So here are two photos of my stuff including me on my live steamer.

Cheers, Gerd

My N-scale Racoon-River-Yard - a classic Inglenook layout


My 2"-scale logging railroad with me at the throttle ;-)

[Herc Driver]

Welcome! Great looking Southern Railway scene.

[stephanh]

Hi Gerd,

what a surprise to meet you here again.
to the forum and you will surely discover that the people in here are very kind and gentle guys.

I just took a closer look on your website again and I have to say:
It´s really fun to klick through the pages and read the small stories and disrcribtions.
SERVING THE SOUTH!

[AF350]

Hello and welcome

Gerd, you must be the first livesteam largescale railroader I have seen here. Cool stuff, keep us posted on the shay build in live steam. Also you may want to post the pics in the weekly photo fun thread as well they(the regulars) would like to see them as well.

Do they still make TT gauge trains over in Germany? TT did not take off like N and Z here in the states.

[Waldbahner]

Hello,

Stephan - Many thanks for that warm welcome

Yes, TT-scale ist still out there, but not as common as any other gauge. Meanwhile you'll get finescale tracks and rolling stock in 1:120 scale.

Here's a sneak preview of my Shay in progress. Still missing are the real boiler, steam engine, smokebox with stack and a lot of plumbing.
Maybe you'll notice the little G-scale men on the run board.



Cheers, Gerd

[nkp_174]

Welcome Gerd!

Very nice work and prototype selections! I crew up within 15 miles of the Lima Machine Co location which built that shay's prototype (the later Lima Loco was a few miles to the south...closer to my home town). Today, I live about a mile east from what was the northern most point in the entire Southern system (the northern terminal of the CNO&TP). There is a local gentleman (his work has been featured in the national publications) with a pair of museum quality Southern (CNO&TP) layouts...the one I've seen is approximately 70-80 sq meters.

[rrinker]

Very nice. I love the live steam stuff. I keep telling myself, one of these days.

--Randy

[modelsof1900]

Hallo Gerd,

nice to read from you here and welcome in our circle of German model railroaders in this forum. It looks that we are a fast growing species on this side of Atlantic.
I'm very interested to see the progress in building your Shay and I hope for success building such a heavy mechanical engine.

@AF350,
a short note to the East German TT-scale producer Tillig. They have a wide sort of TT models in their product lines because the TT-scale is wide spread especially in Eastern Germany. I think there are 35 diferent basic engines and more than 100 types of rolling stock and they develop each year a good number of new models - only in TT-scale. Tillig produced also fine HO models (all after German and European originals). Here the Tillig-Website if you would like to spend a view on their products.

[AF350]

@AF350,
a short note to the East German TT-scale producer Tillig. They have a wide sort of TT models in their product lines because the TT-scale is wide spread especially in Eastern Germany. I think there are 35 diferent basic engines and more than 100 types of rolling stock and they develop each year a good number of new models - only in TT-scale. Tillig produced also fine HO models (all after German and European originals). Here the Tillig-Website if you would like to spend a view on their products.

Thanks for the web link---lots of cool stuff there.

[Running Bear]

I've got the MoW dry goods car done for now. It still needs MoW service decals (yet to be made) and a bit of weathering.