Linden

Last Friday, we were in the southern town of Heerlen and we had a spare hour. I knew there was a model train shop, so I searched the web and found it: Linden Modelspoorcentrum in the Jongmansweg. In this part of the country you can still see where the old mine pits were; as they usually are the large patches of rough land and scrubs between the old streets with cramped houses. The street is single lane now and runs up one of the many hills here. In the middle of the street between the residential houses is the model train shop.

We walked to the door and had to wait for the furry dog to move a bit so we could enter. The owner welcomed us and turned on the light. He had quiet a lot of Märklin, Fleischmann, Roco, Kibri and Pola. He explained that he is 73 of age and has in 2017 a continuous clearance sale with multiple objects for 50%, 30% and 30%. His goal is to sell the lot in the coming months and doing so will be able to say farewell to his working life as a model train shopkeeper. We collected multiple objects; replacement knives, hand planer, trees and lots of small model train objects. For my own layout, I bought a Beli modern double street light. The only scale 0 object that I spotted. Now I only have to find a nice place for it between the tracks. Well lets hope this gentleman will have a smooth clearance sale and a pleasant retirement.