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Hi JaBear - thanks for the lesson in Aussie slang. Some of it sounds like a direct translation from German [;)] [quote user=""]Railroad Depot, Hauptbahnhof, Railway Station, call them what you may but for a supposedly utilitarian building, the architects of the time to varying degrees came up with some marvellous designs. I guess it was to showcase of the importance of rail transport back then.[/quote] Here is one of those examples why railroad station were sometimes called the cathedrals of trains: Cologne "Hauptbahnhof" in 1910: <img src="http://www.koeln.de/bilder/data/pictures/2009-12-02_bahnhof_historisch/normal/hbf_1910.jpg" alt=" " /> Sadly, the same station now looks like this, following the Allied urban renewal project in 1944: <img src="http://www.bahnbilder.de/bilder/vom-koelner-dom-treppe-runtererreicht-133121.jpg" alt=" " /> `Nuff of that! I spend a couple of hours finishing the track plan. <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%206_zpsrvt3euqo.jpg" alt=" " /> <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%206.4_zps9zamgiwi.jpg" alt=" " /> <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%206.3_zpsdtbygc3x.jpg" alt=" " /> If they layout looks a little barren to you, your eyes don´t deceive you. That´s the way Marklin built their promotional display layouts and quite a number of model railroaders copied that style. It´s really a pity that only few of these layouts survived.
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