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Good Morning Gang. Janie, just coffee in my BLS mug, please. BLS, that is Bern Loetschberg Simplon Railway, my favorite Swiss line. Campaigning will slow down a little for the next days. There is only one big rally coming up in Hannover, our state capital, on Saturday. From Sunday until Tuesday, I will be able to enjoy a few days off, right in time to get some rest before the campaign will reach its peak. Wednesday next week will see a speech in Cuxhaven, followed by a speech in Rotenburg on Thursday, Wolfsburg on Friday, Soltau on Saturday, Braunschweig on Sunday and Berlin on Monday. On Sept. 17th I will have time for taking a deep breath, before hitting the road for the final 4 days of the campaign. Official polls are slowly starting to rise, but still are below the threshold of 5% necessary to enter the Bundestag. The "inofficial", Internet-based polls see us way above 10%, which seems to be more likely. Germany is in for a big surprise on September 22nd! I did some doodling with my track planning program yesterday evening, while Petra was watching a boring talk show. Remember those 5 little vids I posted the other day? Well, I found them so inspiring I tried my hand on a scenic Z scale modular layout, just for the fun of it. My choice of location is the Goppenstein station, right at the entrance of the Loetschberg tunnel. I have very fond memories of that place, as my family spent quite a number of summer vacations in that area. As a child, I was fascinated by the ride through the tunnel. The road to the south of Switzerlands ends in Goppenstein and you have to load the car onto a train to be ferried through the tunnel. The 20 minute ride through the dark tunnel was kind of scary to me. I found a near to scale drawing of Goppenstein station which I employed in sketching up the plan for the station module. <a href="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/BLSGOPPENSTEININZALTERNATIVE_zps0c82427b.jpg"><img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/BLSGOPPENSTEININZALTERNATIVE_zps0c82427b.jpg" alt=" " border="0" /></a> now all I need is space, time and money to build it [:-^] Rob, sorry to hear about your loss. Blessings to all!
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