Linz Gstadt Bahn 2

[AustrianNG]

Leisurely shunting operations as Krauss Lok number 2 waits for old man Tom to wheel his trolley over the crossing.

 

[FrenchChuffed]

sooo atmospheric love it

 

[AustrianNG]

The station at Linz is busy on a sunny day.
The crew of Krauss 0-4-0 Lok “Meran” are talking while diesel lok “Billy” idles on the siding and U Class 298.50 rolls away from the yard with a timber train

 

[AustrianNG]

It’s been a while, but I have started installing lights and lamps on the railway.

 

[AustrianNG]

Detailing parts and lamps have arrived plus water cranes and buffer stops. Always lots of work to add on to bring areas of the layout to life.
Meantime running and standard maintenance continues….

 

[AustrianNG]

A few developments have taken place over the last couple of months.
The station at Gstadt has been upgraded with a scratch built goods shed and a Pola engine shed.
Lots of Postcrete ballast.
Just deciding how to make station lamps squirrel and pigeon resistant.

 

[penylanpip]

Just deciding how to make station lamps squirrel and pigeon resistant.

If you find a way to do that, patent it - you will make a fortune from railway modellers alone!

 

[ge_rik]

Looks like it's really coming together, Paul. You clearly have a lot more space here than your previous line.

Rik

 

[AustrianNG]

If you find a way to do that, patent it - you will make a fortune from railway modellers alone!

One train of thought is to have a peg securely fixed to the ground that you can take the lamp off and put inside the station building. That is assuming the power wires to the lamp are long enough and the are painted out to match the earth beneath. But trailing wires are unsightly….
Any way time to ponder it.

These ones are silicones to the Postcrete underneath

 

[Paul M]

If you find a way to do that, patent it - you will make a fortune from railway modellers alone!

A combination of metal posts and 240 volts would probably suffice

 

[AustrianNG]

We have a still evening hereabouts……

 

[PhilP]

Wish I could take photos like that!

PhilP

 

[Paul M]

Wish I could take photos like that!

PhilP

So do I!

 

[David1226]

Wish I could take photos like that!

PhilP

You could try taking some for a little light relief.

David

 

[AustrianNG]

The last passenger service of the evening. From Gstadt to Linz.

 

[AustrianNG]

The dry spell of the last seven days has been good out in the garden.
This picture reminds me of the article from Railway Modeller in 1973 that set me off on a garden railway.
Charles Small ‘s railway was the one that got me hooked.

 

[AustrianNG]

A second pair of Stainz loks are now running as a double head pair, this time using the rear socket on the cab of the Lok to ensure they both get the same dcc juice as they trundle round the railway.
I have sprayed the chassis of both loks with Matt black so that are more akin to the Krauss loks that ran in Austria in the 1900s.

 

[AustrianNG]

How about a crate of beer each ?

 

[Paul M]

How about a crate of beer each ?

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Ah, thee old beer pump disguise. Trouble only starts when the newbie fills his loco tank from it

 

[rhaetianfan]

The dry spell of the last seven days has been good out in the garden.
This picture reminds me of the article from Railway Modeller in 1973 that set me off on a garden railway.
Charles Small ‘s railway was the one that got me hooked.

An excellent recreation, Paul! I've just taken a look at the August 1973 Railway Modeller to see your original inspiration - if you have an online subscription to Railway Modeller you get unlimited access to every back issue. Garden railways almost always feature in the August edition, but rarely LGB. The younger sibling, Continental Modeller, has shown a few.

Incidentally, I thought I would search the August '73 edition for LGB prices, but as far as I could see not a single advertiser was offering any such stock. Beatties of London definitely stocked LGB, as I worked a holiday job on the LGB counter at 112 High Holborn in 1970 - it took me 25 years to be able to justify (and afford!) my own garden railway.

Cheers
M