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Good Afternoon! Good news! My friend Claus has got a new camera for his birthday and was just about to "bin" his old one, when he learned of my misery  - now his old, but still good camera is on its way to me! Life is good again! But our weather isn´t! Still wet & awful! I have been giving that idea of a Marklin nostalgia "dream" layout some more thoughts and came to the conclusion, that it isn´t my dream layout, as I have taken out all those features which made it my dream layout. Since my childhood days, I dreamt of having a turntable with a roundhouse, the electric crane, the classic Marklin grade crossing - not the mechanical one, but the electric one, and the bridge. Never got them, as they were way too expensive to be covered by my paper route money or the maximum amount for Christmas. Not that I did not try my luck, but Santa must have decided I was not good enough that year. Well, a dream layout without the dream features is exactly what I have been doing for decades - boiling everything down to the doable, the feasible, the viable - how boring! Never ever have I built anything faintly resembling my dream layout at that time. I have been paring down my dreams to the minimum, but always losing the "dream" with it. Mind you, I never had anything completely out of the way in my mind, like a football field sized gauge one live steam layout or a 400 sq. ft. HO scale multi-deck layout. My dreams were always on the rather "normal" side. Just for the purpose of planning, I put all the goodies back into the plan - now it is as close to my dream layout I can get, without leaving ground contact. Here it is: <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%208A_zps7tcu5oqu.jpg" alt=" " /> <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%208A%201_zps7of26ygg.jpg" alt=" " /> <img src="http://i682.photobucket.com/albums/vv185/SirMadig/Nostalgie%208A%202_zpsgkv1hs3t.jpg" alt=" " />  Still a doable layout - when I grow up and get rich.
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