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Lunchtime in Germany! Flo, I´ll have a chili dog with all the works, fries and a RBF to wash it down, please. The weather is pretty miserable in our neck of the woods. Lots of [um] and [st] - a perfect day for staying inside and let the mind wander around. Drafting up that plan for my friend Lothar made me think about my own MRRing activities. N scale has its limitations, at least for me.It´s fine for letting trains move along a nice large layout, but if you only have space for what our friends from the Great Island (UK) call avidly a "shunting plank", it is too small. What if I also go back to HO scale, German prototype? I could exchange locos and rolling stock with Lothar - an intriguing thought. Sourcing should also be less cumbersome than buying just about every bit and piece in Japan... Well, I spent the better part of the morning putting some ideas on paper. Basically, the layout is nothing but a timesaver, with a fiddle yard added. It fits on the shelf I have with my N scale layout being relegated to the upper deck of it. This is my idea: <a href="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/GernsbachWest_zpsc05be1f6.jpg"><img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/GernsbachWest_zpsc05be1f6.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> I will have to equip the locos and cars with Kadee couplers, but that´s an easy game, as Kadee offers a drop-in replacement. Motive power could be something like this: <a href="http://kieskemper.de/shop_bilder/roco/62964.jpg"><img src="http://kieskemper.de/shop_bilder/roco/62964.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> It´s a 1960´s 0-6-0 Diesel-hydraulic switcher, which also saw some road service. The local passenger train could be handled by this: <a href="http://www.haertle.de/out/1/html/0/dyn_images/z1/roco-63072-schienenbus-vt-798-vs-998-db-2-tlg-spur-h0-neuheit-2012_z1.jpg"><img src="http://www.haertle.de/out/1/html/0/dyn_images/z1/roco-63072-schienenbus-vt-798-vs-998-db-2-tlg-spur-h0-neuheit-2012_z1.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> I think Jeff remembers those railbuses quite well from his days in Germany. The had a distinctive sound to them, which is well captured by the model. Just thoughts [:-^] Jeff - I hope you´ll be feeling better soon! Have a splendid day!
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