Happy New Year...

... and a lot of Trains :)

I hope 2013 will be a good year with a lot of Model Railroading

Merry Christmas...

... everybody.

A East German Class 95 fighting the hill in Innerste Tal

Principles...

... how it works.

iPhone blogg...

Just make a trial to blog from my iPhone. The picture are taken on a meeting with the module-junta of Borås this evening

Some light...

... in the dark.
An animated Neon Sign from Miller Engineering on top of the brewery in the new industrial district.

Malt, hops, bottles and coal in, beer out.

Factory Weathered Micro Train cars...

... looks real nice (and got a different road no#)

A "new" and a weathered car at "Mars Textile" loading dock.

Micro Trains Factory Weathered

Late evening work...

... makes results. I´ve mounted lights and a temporary wiewblock ahead of Crawford Valley.

From distance

Along the track

Testing...

...both camera and my new E5 and an old "Mike", a Kato Heavy Mikado still waiting for a decoder. The test track is Kato double track with super elevated curves on my dinner table

Southways...

... the building team proceeds against the south...

A wiew to the "south", from left to right, a branchline, an industrial track, siding, main and another industrial track

Real nice :) ...

... a new Silver Streak arrived after a transatlantic journey by mail...

Now it´s just putting a decoder inside (when i´ve got one :( )

The strong Swedish Krona  is bad for our industries but not to my hobby

Moving forward ...

... to the future, or just to the present ;)

The simple switchlist in "naked operations" made a jump in to my iPhone thanks to the App "Mariner Calc for iPhone"

I took my excel-spreadsheet containing all my running equipment and removed all unnecesary facts

Then I marked the cars with 1, 2, 3, ... for incoming  (and 101, 102,... for outbound) and just sorted ascendeing, put in some space and put in a short description for load and destination.

Next step was transferring it to the iPhone with the built in feature.

And look :) , ready to switch.

Mine Run...

..., first train to Fall River Mine #1.

Ready at the staging with a GP7 and eight hoppers.

Pushed the train uphill and started switching.

Hoppers in position.

A closer wiew of the mockup...

First two hoppers loaded

Making a train with loaded

Putting empties back.

Changing direction in Crawford Valley

Down under...

..., not Australia but beneath the plywood.

A bit cramped (or who designed the layout... ;) )

Much cables in a small volume

Operations...

... running trains on purpose during tests.

The most basic switchlist, Car No and "target". MT=Mars Textile, FD=Fuel dealer, TT=Teamtrack...

Incoming train

Outbound 5 min later

Running Trains...

First there was a lot of work done this weekend. First the track was layed on the Mine Yard, a bit more "casual" compared to the plan :)

The Junction got its switch motors mounted and wired. Directions are: lower left - Staging, lower right - Crawford Valley and upper left - the still unplanned small city above my workbench

And, at last there was a train running. Here on its way from Crawford Valley via the Junction to my americaN-staging yard

Sawdust...

... is frequent in the workroom.

Construction has started and reached the door. The shelf are a L-girder and then the layout are built in sections to make it possbly to make the big (or small) works on the workbench.

 The switch which connect Fall River Branch to Crawford Valley.

A prewiew of where Fall River Mine will load out its coal.

Planning...

the surroundings for Crawford Valley (CV).

At home the modules will fit in to my shelf layout named Illinois Highland RR. A branch leave CV and make its way up in a small valley with a coal tipple

In the valley there are a junction thats connect the layout to movable fiddleyard in the middle of the room