Glyn’s been back in touch with his Marklin layout:
“Hello Al
Seasons greetings to you and many thanks for all you do to enhance our hobby.
As you may recall, I retired to Santa Fe full time 2 years ago after 40 years of surgical practice and commenced re-doing my Marklin layout that I had previously built in Peoria IL.
The layout is built in a 23’x13′ former wine cellar with an asymmetric U-shaped design.
The left hand limb is 16′ long due to the presence of a stairwell from the patio and features the Swiss German component.
Across the transverse limb at the far end of the room are upper and lower double mainline tracks over 2 sets of bridges spanning a deep river gorge.
These move into 2 sets of tunnels entering a large mountain which I have just built this past week.
The upper tracks pass through a small rural station before heading 23′ downhill toward a large loop circling what will be a 1920’s era American New England town.
I know this will drive the rivet counters crazy but I have about 6 US steam and diesel locomotives with rolling stock and a significant investment in Fine Scale Miniatures building kits which I need to build and display. The only way to achieve this with the space available was to combine the 2 different country systems into a large folded wishbone as I have done.
I know that the prototypical modelers will probably have a meltdown at such heresy but who cares – it’s my railroad and it’s all about having fun, not so?
From there the tracks pass into a concealed 6 lane staging yard before exiting through the lower tunnel to cross back over the lower bridges before passing underneath the main Swiss German town.
Completing a hidden loop beneath the town, the track passes up a long parade incline, circling behind the roundhouse complex to return to the mainline station (see layout overview).
I’m including images of the coaling station, diesel fuel depot, the bridges over the gorge and the multi-level tunnels.
A DB V200 diesel is shown at the head of a cargo consist and a KayBSt S2/6 passenger express is awaiting clearance to leave the station with the town and castle visible in the background.
Once I’ve figured out how to compress all my video footage adequately for email I’ll send these along so you can see the Marklin layout trains running with a CS2 digital control.
Best regards and Happy New Year to you all.
Glyn”
Marklin layout:
A huge big thank you to Gyn for sharing his Marklin layout update – stunning stuff!
There are lots more of pics of his layout in his first post: Marklin HO layout.
Here’s a pic taken from the first Marklin layout post too:
And it reminded me of this post too:
That’s all for today folks.
Please do keep ’em coming.
And if today is the day you get started on your layout, the Beginner’s Guide is here.
Best
Al
PS Latest ebay cheat sheet is here.
PPS More HO scale train layouts here if that’s your thing.