Progress Shots

[jwb]

Here's a view of the one area where European and US stuff comes together on the layout. In the lower right is the end of the Amtrak platform at Bay City, CA. To the left is a German-style signal cabin and farther beyond is the station platform that could be either Northeast Corridor or someplace in Europe. The connecting tracks between Europe and the US are in the center of the photo. They layout is designed so that US equipment can move over European track to reach one industry and staging, but I don't intend to run European equipment on US track, as part of the US style main line is code 70 track, which doesn't work with European non-RP25 wheels.
   
Here is the end unit for the East German TEE-IC train you saw in the post above. I think it is a class 675, Epoche III-IV.
   
Here's an East German coach I found in a US store c 1972 or so: