Early these month I attended an operating session at the home of a friend of mine. He held his annual silvester layout in the weeks after christmas.

Hello,

the last three days I continued with the scenic work at the station throat of Ullapool.

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yesterday and today I started with the construction of the landscape at the station throat end at my Ullapool

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maybe someone out there could help me. I'm looking for a trackplan made from Ian Rice. It was printed I think in one of Model Railroaders supplements. It was 4x8 feet trackplan, which he converted to a shelf layout desing. If I'm right there was a small wharf and a cannery.

Thank you for your help.

Markus

Hello,

at the last weekend I held an operating session. First a film which shows our trials with the British Railways Bell Codes for communication between the stations.

The second film was made at the end of the session and shows some trains running on the Garve and Ullapool Railway.

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it's been a while since my last post.

Ullapool is now installed in my railway room, and fully functional. During spring and summer I held two operating session. And another will follow in about three weeks. The layout is constructed along the walls of the room and at the moment the fiddle yard reaches in the room. For the future I plan to include a junction station so I've got a possibility for my trains to pass and meet on the line.

Here a few pictures from the layout.

I asked my friend Matthias Hacker, to draw a sketch for my Ullapool station, for a better visualisation.
Here is the result.

During the tracklaying I missed to drill a hole in one of the throwbars of one turnout.

Today I finished the tracklaying except for the MPD area, the tracks there will installed when I receive the turntable.
After that I have to install the electric part.
The turnouts will be sets either by turnout motors or mechanically.

Now some progress on my Ullapool project.
The trackwork is now laid on module 2 and on module 3 there only the tracks that connect with module 4 have to be laid.
The next stepts are soldering the wires on the tracks, and cutting the tracks on the joint between modules 2 and 3.
Then joining modules 3 and 4 and laying the rest of the track.

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Markus

Yesterday I attended the so called Silvester Layout from a friend of mine.
Every Year between Christmas and the first or second weekend in January he
held operating sessions with a modular layout at his home.
Here are some pictures and a film I made from yesterday.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107465074458422577260/Silvesterlayout201220...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEgcbQG6sMI

Markus