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Regular poster 315 posts jpachl Regular poster 315 posts
jpachl

Next week, I will visit the modell-hobby-spiel fair in Leipzig, Germany. It is a huge annual event on the Leipzig fairground covering all kinds of creative hobbies. An entire hall is dedicated to model railroading. Last year, I made a model railroad diorama, which was displayed in a showcase at the stand of a TT scale retailer specialized in US models. Since this year, I will be just a visitor, it's a good opportunity to revisit my exhibition piece from last year.

The diorama shows a fictitious scene in a Northeastern US city with a closed firehouse beside a rail yard. While not having a real prototype, there are several places in New York City that had that kind of atmosphere in the 1950s/60s, e.g., the area around former 30th street yard.

 
The background picture was made on a computer by combining modified cutouts of seven different photos of NYC. This way, I created a picture showing a typical NYC scene that never existed in reality.
 
 
As an exhibition piece, the diorama was designed to fit into a foldable storage box, which makes transportation easy.
 
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During the 2013 exhibition, a friend put a nicely weathered NYC subway car on the diorama, which gained a lot of attention from visitors. 

For more pictures, see the Flickr album on that diorama or information on my homepage.

Joern

Homepage: http://www.joernpachl.de/model_rr.htm

Blog: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/40591
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SP_CFNR Regular poster 107 posts
SP_CFNR

Great pics

Fantastic photos. 

Looked at your site and you refer to a standard gauge station in Drei Anne Hohne. Been to the narrow gauge station a few times but never saw a trace of a normal gauge line. I assume it would have been further downhill in relation to the HSB station?

There is often a standard gauge watercar parked on a narrow gauge roller but I guess that has nothing to do with it?

Cheers,

Henk
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jpachl Regular poster 315 posts
jpachl

Drei Annen Hohne

Henk,

The standard gauge station was directly adjacent to the HSB station but on a slightly lower level. Passengers could transfer between the two stations via a pedestrian tunnel, which probably still exists. Since the standard gauge tracks are gone for decades, it's difficult to spot anything of the former station today. The only remaining is the station building. It can be accessed by walking through the parking lot. In this google earth shot, I marked the building by a yellow circle:

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In Drei Annen Hohne, there were never any facilities to put standard gauge equipment on narrow gauge rollers. Such facilities exist in Wernigerode and Nordhausen. Here are two pictures of Nordhausen showing some modern type narrow gauge rollers:

ckanlage.jpg 

llboecke.jpg 

Joern

 

Homepage: http://www.joernpachl.de/model_rr.htm

Blog: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/40591
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Jeff G. Regular poster 133 posts
Jeff G.

Kudos from a native New Yorker

It certainly does have the look and feel of quite a few places around town. Besides the west side of Manhattan, the scene reminds me of the area in Brooklyn where the South Brooklyn Railway meets the 9th Avenue subway station.

Very nice modeling and composition.

Jeff
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jpachl Regular poster 315 posts
jpachl

New York

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the compliment! While I visit the US every year, I have never been in New York City. So, I completely rely on photos and Google earth. Fortunately, New York is one of the world's most photographed cities, so there are plenty of pictures. Nice to hear from a native that I quite met the atmosphere.

Joern

Homepage: http://www.joernpachl.de/model_rr.htm

Blog: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/blog/40591
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