I know, the title will toss a few over the edge and does break into the realm of click bait. I believe it to be true.

Today I attended the FREMO regional meeting at Hanau, near Frankfurt.

You could find the pictures I made during the meeting here.

https://goo.gl/photos/s7eEcRUqTmtZBUxV9

Markus

Here is my system for uncoupling, I have 27 on my small 22" x 13' layout, one at each position that I would want to spot a car at or break a train at. 

Moderator note: Changed to embedded YouTube video.

Or.... How to potentially thoroughly mess up an operating session. 

I've always had mixed feelings about the traditional 4-cycle waybill system. It does seem to work, normally, but it also seems fairly maintenance intensive - all the waybills have to be flipped between operating sessions and the like. I did not become a model railroader in order to do paperwork (which is also why I'm figuring on a TWC system instead of TT&TO). It also seemed like it had a certain lack of randomness.

I've got all the track work sorted out, and the magnets placed. Now I can do hands free switching. A few detail pieces arrived today so terrain planning can begin in earnest.

Cheers.

Neil.

I haven't posted a truly long "meaningful" post in a while so figured it was time here is my view on the fate of the hobby:

This building is a background structure for the Carquinez Model Railroad Society layout's Napa Loop. While this structure in Prototype looks out over the Napa River, ours looks over the loop so the foamers get to watch trains in the lap of luxury. Look forward to a video soon!