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[quote user="cudaken"]Ulrich I need to do more bench work design then have you do a track plan for me if you would. I have one idea that will let me fit a good sizes layout in the garage with my 68 Road Runner. But, I want to try some other ideas first before I post it.[/quote] I sure will, Ken! Good Morning! This Summer ain´t no Summer, no Sir! It´s wet. just wet! I hope Sunday 10th will be nice or at least dry. There is a steam train passing through our station and I´d like to go see it! Shortly after WW II, "experts" estimated that it would take a minimum of 20 years just to remove the rubble and in total 60 years to rebuild the cities. How wrong they were! The rubble was gone no later than 1950 and the reconstruction was finished in the early 1960s, though I still remember using empty lots as a playground. With the exception of the major cities, i.e. Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Magdeburg and some others, the East of Germany saw less destruction than the West, but 40 years of communism did as much damage as the allied bombing, albeit killing less people. It was mainly my grandparents´ and parents´ generation who did all the work, but leaving German cities with the rather uninspiring, uniform look of simplified Bauhaus architecture. It was my generation who started out to make the cities look nice and colorful again, but the old charme is gone forever. Although much of the old part of Dresden has been reconstructed following the "tumbling of the Berlin Wall", the city has not (yet) found its way back to the former pace of life. It´s been degraded to a Disney-like tourist attraction - a big [sigh]
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