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I lived in Germany as a kid. While my father was a school principal at the Canadian military base in Lahr. We lived off-base up one of the valleys of the Black Forest. Hence why I chose to model this region. I amassed quite a bit of my collection between 1987 and 1990 while in Germany. About 5 years ago - about when I finished my Masters degree and got my first real job - I got the collection out again and started adding to the collection and building a layout. I was doing this in Thunder Bay Ontario for a while, but I changed jobs and had to tear down and start over again. Space has required me to scale down the layout to a managable size. But I'm having a lot of fun with it. See this url for links to photos of the layout: http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page--1&TOPIC_ID=41149&REPLY_ID=429524#429524 I'm currently too busy doing summer things to do much with the layout. But I plan on continuing to add catenary to the mainline section this fall/winter. I model DC. My locos and rolling stock are a mix of Fleischmann and Roco. I am very interested in purchasing a DB class 85 steam loco (http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/steam/85/pix.html). Trix makes a nice model. This heavy tank loco was used to climb the Hollental railway. Unfortunately I'm back in school working on a Ph.D. and have very limited funds for working on the layout. I find I get lots of good deals on European stuff on Ebay. I have dealt with www.eurorailhobbies.com, www.reynaulds.com, www.eurolokshop.com (great prices for Sommerfeldt catenary) and occasionally visit John's Photo Hobby Eurorails in Toronto for service (their prices are quite high, but if you need something immeadiately they have a huge stock).
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