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PAGE 25 - MAY 2004, ©2004
Carl Arendt
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A REALISTIC ENGLISH INDUSTRIAL SCENE
 Chris Nevard, who lives
just southwest of London, England, built this striking industrial waterfront scene,
Arne Wharf, on a 3 x 2 foot platform in OO9 scale. The setting is the Isle
of Purbeck, in Dorset.
For more information about the layout see Chris's website and the current issue (#58) of
Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railway Modelling Review.
Chris comments, "The layout's first outing to the Egham &
Staines MRS Show in January highlighted the advantages of having a small layout to
cart around to shows. I was up an running in under 10 minutes from parking. At the
end of the show packing up took under five minutes! The layout and stand fit nicely
into the back of the saloon car."
Total construction time was
eight months, with most of the work being done during the last three.
 
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UPDATE: LAS CAJAS AVENUE
MAKES PROGRESS
Shown here is a work-in-progress picture
of Jeff Hartmann's variation on Jack Trollope's classic Box Street Yard. Jeff's HO standard-gauge layout, Las
Cajas Avenue, uses old-time cars (because they're shorter) and measures just
36x9.25 inches (90x24 cm).
This photo represents an update to our previous coverage of this elegant little layout
in Scrapbook
#15 and Scrapbook #20.
You can keep track of Jeff's progress at his website. Jeff's from Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
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WATCH OUT FOR THE SHEEP ON THE MOORS!
 
 From England, Andrew Smith
made this 30 x 20 in. OO9 portable layout, Steephill, and he and his 8-year-old
son, Matthew, entered it in the 2003 Chelmsford Narrow Gauge competition.
It won the prize, and Matthew -- who operated it all day at the exhibition -- got
to take home a silver cup.
The area modelled is somewhat desolate, suitable mainly for raising sheep, and there
are sheep scattered all over it as you can see (a close duplicate of real life!).
The main siding serves a scapyard, there's a small halt for passengers, and a couple
of sidings are available for shunting and storage.
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UPDATE: FROM FAYOLLE'S WILD WEST SHOW
 Fabrice
Fayolle sent along this update of work on his Josephtown Craddonnium Co. layout
that was featured in last
month's Scrapbook.
For more information about
the layout and his progress, see Fabrice's website. |
UPDATE: A SWISS VERSION OF BOX STREET
YARD
 This version of
Box Street Yard is being built by Daniel Schläfli, who lives in Switzerland.
An On30 pike, it's called 47th Street Yard and measures 48 x 20 inches. This
photo shows Daniel's mockup of his projected scenery to hide the sector plate. There's
a track plan and a good photo of his excellent handlaid track in the Scrapbook #22. |
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GERMAN SWITCHBACK (ZIG-ZAG) KEEPS
THE FREIGHT ROLLING
 Alexander Kaczmarek,
who lives in Berlin, is making this delightful German version of Chuck Yungkurth's
classic American layout design, the Gum
Stump & Snowshoe.
Alexander has set his HO layout in northern Bavaria in the 1980s. The original line
was cut in half by the partitioning of East and West Germany, so the trains now must
cllimb a steep switchback to continue serving their industrial clients. (This type
of situation actually occurred on at least one prototype German line!) The layout
measures 180x43 cm (71 x 17 in) and uses Märklin track. Short switching locomotives
haul four-wheeled cars up the steep grades.
In the photos below (taken from opposite ends of the layout) the left hand picture
shows the line in its early construction stages. The track plan is easy to trace.
The right hand photo, from a later stage, shows off some of Alexander's very attractive
scenery.
 
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