Switchers stalling? Please no.

[torikoos]

AAT (#2 on my list) is in Karst. That is not far away from the Netherlands / Venlo.
All American Trains
Matthias-Claudius-Strasse 28a
41564 Kaarst
Finish work early on Friday and take a late flight back home. Should work if you stay away from the rush hour. Rainer Hartmann is a nice guy (at least at the phone, I met him never in person:-).
I thought about the name Koos and you wrote sometime ago about your weekly travel. Might be there is some dutch blood in you?

There's a lot of dutch blood in me, 100%. :-) A good guess!
I was born and raised in the Netherlands, but after a carreer at sea, I met my english wife and settled in the UK in 1999. I started work for a local engineering firm in 2009 and was a traveling service engineer for a while, but since last year I now am the manager of their dutch service depot. (it helps that I speak the language :-) ). In this role I travel every monday to NL, stay there until friday afternoon, and travel back, so I spend the weekend at home in the UK. I have no intention to move back to NL though, I like the hills etc in my part of the UK much better, and there's a few good hobby clubs busy with american model railroads. I haven't found one locally near my place of work , and links I found on the internet are all mostly dead.
FYI, I work and reside in Leiden, Netherlands. 20 minutes south of Amsterdam airport by train, so my commute is not all that bad. In the UK I also have a 20 minute taxi journey from my local airport (Exeter) to my home near Newton Abbot (in Devon, UK).

Koos