Hello from Andreas, Berlin – I’m glad to be here!

[65 1057]

I’ve been watching G scale central a while and I got lots of inspirations – Thank you!! – so now a membership was more than overdue and I hope I can contribute a bit to this nice forum...

I started as kid with HO and HOe, but the 1:1 scale was always the ultimate experience when I remember the early 80’s of regular steam operation with ÖBB 399 in the Waldviertel region…

So I decided to make my fireman licence at the Harzquerbahn when it was still Deutsche Reichsbahn, followed by the licence to drive steam and diesel engines. I was member of various heritage railways. Why 65 1057? This is currently my favorite steam loco which still needs some major overhaul. My Avatar picture show me cleaning the ash pan of the GR 20 from the Mansfeld Mining Railway – re-decorated as 99 1401 (incl. weight brake rope) as it was on duty on the “Pollo” NG railway for their 25th club anniversary.

When my house was build and the garden was halfways ready I convinced my wife with the wonderful idea to carry some cappuccinos and cocktails with a garden railway from the kitchen patio directly to their deck chair… so I got her approval for the current layout.

I started as a typical German DCC 45mm track powered LGB user (99 6001 and V52 Diesel), later I was attracted by the larger 1:20,3 scale of US NG railways (Bachmann Connie & Climax), and since last year I’m more and more interested in the British NG world. Now I have difficulties to decide which lineside detailing I really want - currently everything is still more or less “generic” w/o houses, signaling etc. We will see…

 

[Zerogee]

Welcome to GSC, Andreas!
Your background is very interesting, as you have done "for real" what so many of us can only do as models.....
We have a few German members on here, and it is always good to welcome another from the Land of LGB!
Enjoy your time spent on here, ask any questions you want, and I apologise in advance for our sometimes odd and very British sense of humour......

Jon.

 

[65 1057]

Thank you, Zerogee! The sense of humor was one of the biggest motivators for me to join the group...

 

[Madman]

Welcome aboard Andreas.

 

[korm kormsen]

Thank you, Zerogee! The sense of humor was one of the biggest motivators for me to join the group...

oh, oh...
while we like the British humour, you'll find out, that they simply can't understand German humour...

and, if you don't know yet: the last incarnation of this forum was called "G-scale mad".

be welcome!

 

[idlemarvel]

g-scale mad is a very apt description for most of us. Welcome Andreas. I'm a fan of 750/760mm narrow gauge steam and diesel, starting in Austria but currently moving northwards via Saxony to the Baltic Sea!

 

[JimmyB]

Andreas, welcome to the forum!!

 

[tac foley]

Welcome! We used to live in Charlottenburg, and I was a member of the BSN Heros Shooting Club! Happy Days!

tac
OVGRS
POCRR - Eastern Sub

 

[Paul M]

Welcome Andreas! Don't forget, we like pictures

 

[mike]

Hello and welcome to the madness

 

[Gavin Sowry]

!
Very British sense of humour......

Jon.

To understand the British, you first must understand Cricket.
Once that is grasped, you've then got those blasted Colonials to deal with.

Welcome.

 

[Capt. Jack]

Welcome aboard. We would love some pictures..

 

[trammayo]

Welcome! You don't have to be mad - but it helps!

 

[dunnyrail]

Welcome to the Forum Andreas, my line is based on the Selktalbahn not too far from you but in the days I first remember it 1981. If you watch my Vid linked below you may recognise some scenes and also see the terrible lidertues that I have taken with that wonderful line.

Would be good to see more pictures of your line, perhaps say hello when I am next in the area. But be a year or three as I have a oldish dog just now and do not like to leave him.

 

[phils2um]

It's just not cricket to denigrate us "Colonials" Gavin. After all, we've got the Trump card! - Welcome Andreas.

Phil S.

 

[dunnyrail]

It's just not cricket to denigrate us "Colonials" Gavin. After all, we've got the Trump card! - Welcome Andreas.

Phil S.

And very welcome to it you are!

 

[beavercreek]

Hello and welcome Andreas ...........tons of great information and advice on here......even, if sometimes, you don't want it!!

 

[65 1057]

Since this is my first forum I feel the urge to press each button at least once... If the server crashes soon - I plead guilty. So I start with my layout.

I like long distances between the stations, but I had to compromise... Thats why the small extension route across the garden is still not yet approved
The DCC Power is crammed into an old photo suitcase. Initially I did not want to spend too much money, so I started with Uhlenbrock DAISY-2 set (2 amps only, the blue box). The set wasextended later with a Power 8 Booster (plus 150 VA transformator) amd wireless control. At the side are the connectors to the track and the rail triangle relay.


The track along the patio is not critical als long as nobody stumbles heavily downstairs

 

[65 1057]

The track cleaning is done by "THE TRACK CLEANER" - a liquid with rock flour on a felt pad

It fits under a standard LGB wagon


No problems on the pointwork (derailing or so) - it just glides

 

[65 1057]

I'm currently replacing the standard Hook & Loop with S-Kuplix. When you drill a new hole in the holder you can move the coupling 2mm further inward with the effect to run "Buffer @Buffer" which Looks more prototypical. Here the difference

Here we have 2 S-Kuplix coupled buffer @ buffer. It works reliably as long as the radius is about LGB R3 (ca. 1.200 mm / 3.9')