Hi,

for several month I´ve been reading as a unregistered member of the forum.
I think here are great artists doing their work in sparetime and I collected many impressions
of building an American railroad.
Since the age of 3 i´ve been involved in model railroads. This is now about 45 years ago!
I started with LEGO, went to TRIX Express at the age of 6 and took any German
model railroad manufacturer in H0 and N you can imagine.....
In 2000 I was contaminated with the virus of American railroading - simply terrible!
May be that is the reason why I post my exploits here ....
Are you interested? then follow me to "Clearwater Industries"

I will show you "the making of" and the "expansion of" Clearwater Industries

sincerely Thomas!

P.S. first of all some small impressions:
(I hope the pictures are´nt too big!)

my first plan to build:


first impressions:

Welcome aboard Thomas. The layout looks great!

Oh! Night operations! Everything is looking good, welcome to the forum!

Welcome to our , now your, world. Great pictures. Great looking layout.
Charlie

Glad you could join us Thomas! Great looking night shots. Love the lighting and the building interiors.
Ralph

Night shots are great, got any day shots?

Really nice night shots!

Looks good! Like the way you have found room for the car loading docks. How is your layout fitted into the room ?

Smile,
Stein

As Tony the Tiger would say "G-R-R-R-R-R-E-A-T !!"

Welcome, great work and nice to see another Florida layout.

Your pics are very good, would love to see some 'daylight' pics.


regards,

Mal

Very nice pictures and wonderful night scenes - Welcome!

Thomas,Welcome aboard! Nice night photos.

Hi folks,

thank you for welcomming me so nice.

As you can see from the track plan I intended to build a timesaver.
In reality I put it on 2 segments of 90*50cm (about 35.5 * 19.7 inch each) opposite
to my first drawing (3 segments) to save space and to have the chance to put it quickly on a table
for some short sessions meanwhile (pictures will follow).

I am still sorting my photographs - I elected some from the "bright side" of my layout for you.
I hope you like them as well.

Where is the layout placed ? Originally Florida - the only state in the US I visited till this day,
but I do like the West as well - so please be lenient towards me when you see Santa Fe and
UP locos and cars as well, thank you.

My buildings have real prototypes in Miami FL, I will show them by and by.


sincerely Thomas!

Thomas, super great work !!!

with all the previous comments. Very nice work!

Mark