Linz Gstadt Bahn 2

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


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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


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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.
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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.


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

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

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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.

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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.


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AustrianNG said:
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.
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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
 
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