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 Dan - it always amazes me, how many of you people know German. For me, it is one of the craziest languages in the world. Even it being my native tongue, I had such a hard time to "learn" it again, when I came back from my time as an exchange student in Washington State. After more than 18 months in the US, I had lost so much of it! My wife´s uncle emigrated to the US over 50 years ago and his German has a very pronounced American accent now [:)]I don´t have much of a chance to actually speak English now. Our next door neighbor is a woman from Scotland (from the lovely town of Ayr), so now and then I can mix a few English words into our conversation - that´s about all! I guess, my English sounds funny to your ears - it is outdated, lacking all those  fashionable "in" words the younger generation uses. In my time, words like "far out" and "groovy" were commonly used - far out today, probably. I had the chance to visit the US (and BC) in 1978 and on two business trips to New York in 1992. I worked in London for about half a year in 1991. That was the last time I really had to speak the language. People say that I have a "25 miles west of London" accent, quite a change from the lingo I had spoken while attending Bainbridge Island High School [:D]Jeff - I am glad you can stay with your FD. It has been a part of your life, and giving it up is something like giving up a part of life. Hope, your van will be on the road soon! Ray - I was able to follow op on previous posts. Who is that fellow with the nice and friendly smile next to Arun Gandhi? How´s Olivia doing? Sorry to read about that student of yours - some people seem to collect just all the bad luck there is in life. May he rest in peace now. Sawyer - saw those recent pics of your layout - that´s a big [tup].Bama - good to read about you again - I was getting worried already! Any news about Sam and his new job? Two years ago, I started coaching a fellow model railroader in Switzerland. He had been working on his layout for some 7 years, only to find out, that he would never be able to run a train without problems. His layout had two helices with a too tight radius, causing a derailment any time he ran a train. He dismantled the layout in disgust and was just about to chuck the hobby, when we met in Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg. Together, we developed a modular layout, based on his favorite route, the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway. His layout is an exact copy of the Blausee-Mitholz station, with all the landmark features around it. He does such a fantastic job in capturing all those little details, that I sometimes have a hard time to find out whether the pictures show his model our reality. It is great fun to watch his skills develop. He has outgrown his teacher already! You can see some of his recent work <a href="http://users.quickline.com/marolf/Baubericht_04_10.pdf" target="_blank" mce_href="http://users.quickline.com/marolf/Baubericht_04_10.pdf">here</a> and <a href="http://users.quickline.com/marolf/Baubericht_06_10.pdf" mce_href="http://users.quickline.com/marolf/Baubericht_06_10.pdf">here</a>.As John would say - TTFN! The weekend´s HD list is waiting for me!
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