Sunday, September 24, 2017

Local operators gathering

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One of the local groups of toy train operators had their gathering today. So, we went through the morning fog to a sport hall of a table te...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Ascencion steam day at VSM

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Earlier this summer, when the sun was shining, a steam train party was on at the VSM in Beekbergen . We took the steam train to Loenen and ...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Local train swap meeting

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Last weekend, the local train swap meeting was held in Zutphen. They even advertised for it in my street... as if I wouldn't know it ye...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Linden

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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...
Monday, February 13, 2017

A fence too far

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A few years ago, I acquired a Dutch post-war toy Bailey bridge. It was composed of soft-metal side panels painted green and small wooden pla...
Friday, February 03, 2017

Toy auction at Bouwman and son

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Last Saturday, the bimonthly toy auction was held at Bouwman and Bouwman in Brummen. I was curious about this auction and wanted it to visi...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

ARS Technica

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On a snowy mountain ridge in the Ardennes lies the small village of Losheim. The slow cold wind turns the wind mills slowly overhead. Which ...
Saturday, January 07, 2017

Tin-plate hopper

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Last month on the 17th of December, we had the local swap model train meeting in Zutphen, which I crash-visited between several appointments...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

Merkur passenger service

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The night express was running through the train room this night. Now the nights are getting longer and colder, the lighted coaches are a won...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Last run of the season

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Last Sunday, the local heritage railroad company MBS ran the last trains for the season. It was a quiet autumn day. The sun just gave suffi...