Monday, February 08, 2016

Lazy sunday afternoon

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Last Sunday, the local group of toy train operators hired the Whitehorse bar to have their annual toy train fest. Such a gathering in th...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Wiring a Lionel 151 Semaphore

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The Lionel 151 semaphore is a postwar accessory that is usually wired with a Lionel 153 contactor. This will lower the semaphore for a few s...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Merkur mounting bridges

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Today I assembled the Merkur 8989 mounting bridge. It came in a new style box; white corrugated board with an glued inlay of a superfluous a...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Merkur 8986 Lamp post

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Santa was good for me and gave me a Merkur 8986 Lamp post. So, I naturally felt obliged to construct it immediately and shed some light on t...
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Restaurant car

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Experience helps when it comes to placing an interior inside a Merkur passenger car.  I received the interior last weekend from Blik en Spee...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Upgrading the electrical pick-up assembly

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Last weekend, among the birds, I received the ordered Merkur third rail pick-ups for coaches (9885). So, I had to place one of them on the c...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Toy trains among birds

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Last weekend was the Dutch scale zero gathering in Zutphen. Normally, I would have visited it, but this year it happened to be a 2-rail only...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Lighting up a Merkur passenger coach

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Two weeks ago, I purchased 6 LED strips of Hufing Tronic with 10 LED's and suitable for both AC and DC operation on the MSCV swap meet...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Some new sheds

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Yesterday, I had a couple of hours of spare time in Amsterdam, so I drove to Harlaar. It is the LHS of our capital and it is tucked away in...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Merkur Museum

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During our holiday in the Czech Republic we visited the Merkur museum in Police nad Metuji. We had to drive for two hours through the Giant...