December 2019

I wish you a happy, healthy and relaxed New Year!

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Together with Exclusive Models in the Netherlands, Accucraft is re-launching the CIWL Pullman sleeping cars.

Dingler had some of his models of the Ae 4/7 of the SBB photographed.

With this pre-Christmas view of Bremen Central Station I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays with time to relax and enjoy.

Take time for those you love - and for what you love.

The Christmas presents are never ending: Fine Models announces tomorrow the Bavarian rack locomotive PtzL 3/4. Here already are the details and photos of the handmade samples.

More details and photos of the novelty announcement.

Today I have the pleasure of presenting to you exclusively a new gauge 1 model - for subscribers only.

Gauge 1 usually suffers from too long vehicles and too short tracks. But you can, strictly following the example of the DB Regio, extend the journey time with a trick. German TV satirical program Extra3 showed the method again yesterday.

Recently model railway friends met in Lodz in Poland for a small model railway fair. There were also three 1-gauge enthusiasts.

If you can read German, I would recommend in the German thread of spur1info my review of a German-language book about station restaurants from all over the world.

Or maybe you would like to give it away to someone who can read it.

Schuco has released the Deutz F3 M 417 universal tractor, built between 1942 and 1952, as a 1:32 scale die-cast model. This interesting tractor model is suitable for 1-gauge dioramas and layouts of epochs II to IV. A presentation with 27 images.

Fine Models has now defined details for the Bavarian low side cars. Details for spur1info subscribers.

There's something going on at the model railroad shows.

New projects, changed prices and postponed and confirmed delivery dates - the updated project list provides updated information on gauge 1 projects.

Märklin offers the high-heeled S 3/6 in H0 scale, Wyko-Echtdampf now has 1-gauge livesteam model. And also a somewhat special model is present.

Schuco has delivered the Kirovets K-700 T. The die-cast model is a three-axle special version of the Russian large tractor with front loader and available at €89.95.

Until Epoch IV, the collection and transport of scrap metal was a rustic business. My photos show what it really looked like back then.

For the last time this year, we are looking at the list of 1-gauge projects that has grown once again. About 50 were delivered in 2019, but the list contains well over 220 projects.

In the office he analyses the stock market for a large German business magazine, in the evening he works on his main station Hof in H0, which fills an entire basement room. He is one of the many silent model builders in the country who consistently pursue a theme and still want to become a little better. And he does so in a very relaxed way.