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Thanks for your comments. Yesterday, I've finished the fiddle and at 10pm, I' ve started the first operation session on my layout. Here is a final overview of the fiddleyard, with all my WS-stuff. There's also a clip at youtube from this "event". At the end, you can watch #14 pulling a...

Hi Loren, the section between River and the helix would be approx 5' long and I would use a simple board for this "bridge". It must be removeable, because I'ce to storage many other stuff in this room. Gerd

Oh.. I forget the scale.... But you're right. It's N-scale. Gerd

Hello, some month ago, I've started my first small layout, representing a piece of the West Side Lumber Co. Today, I've spend some hours and created some extensions to this modular layout... I was just blown away by this design and I think, I'll have a new lifetime job in modelrailroading...

Hello all. Yesterday, I've done some progress on my Camp-8-Layout. I started to build a fiddleyard for the west end of the layout, that will represent Tuolumne. A secound, but smaller and easier fiddle will be follow on the east end of the layout as Deadwood. My biggest problem was, to get...

Here's another photo, showing the Heisler and my 3-truck-Shays sitting on my hand to give you a feeling of the locos size... And here is a secound clip, showing the loco running through camp 8, hauling a 13-skels-logtrain up a 2.5% grade... http://www.us-waldbahnen.de/Heisler.WMV

Many thanks. I've updated the photos with new ones, showing the engine weathered and detailed. Gerd

Hello, I would like to show you my new Heisler in N-scale. The model is scratch-build out of brass, copper and styrene. Some parts has been used from an old Atlas-Shay-Boiler (domes, stack, lamps...). Parts of a Kato-critter-drive 11-105 has been used for the drive. Only the rear truck is...

Hello logging-fans, I think nearly every logging-fan will know the name "West Side Lumber CO." or has hear it some day... Michael Azzarello from http://www.wsrestoration.com/ has started a online-petition to preserve the last remainders of the WSLC in Tuolumne before they are gone and lost...

Hello, here's another one in color. Please not, that this diorama is build in N-scale.

Hello, I've tried to make some engine-pics of my Shay #14. What do you think?

Hello, I've found some time today, to do the last finish on my WestSide-Shays. (Click zu enlarge) Gruß, Gerd

Hello again, If sone one is interested, I've started layout construction last weekend and gets the track layed at Camp 8. Here are some pictures. You find more at my website : http://www.us-waldbahnen.de/N/camp_8/rohbau_e.htm Gerd

Hello, I've bashed a West side 3-truck Shay out of one and a half Atlas Shays... You'll find pictures on my website. http://www.us-waldbahnen.de/N/Shay_9/shay_9e.htm Any comments? Gerd

Hello all, I was very busy in the last days and here is the result : I've assembled a second flatcar with staks, the YSL hopper-car is neraly ready for the paintshop too. The passenger car is nearly finished with paint ;-) More pictures of all this cars can be found here...

Hello over there, yesterday, I've fnished my first flatcar, constructed by the plans of YSL-car out of NG&SL-Gazzette May/Jun 1988. All white parts are cnc-milled out of styrene. This is a shot of the finished car just before painting... More pictures of this car and the parts can be...

Hello, after a break of 3 month, I'll be back on my West Side project in N-scale std.gauge. Yesterday, I've lettered the first of 6 finished skels. More to come in the next days. Gerd

Last weekend, I've spent some time on building structures. I've finished 4 camp cars and the cook house is half done. I've found some bunkhouses too, so I've taken a board, added some tracks from my dad and tested my layout plan to get y first impression of the future layout. I think it looks...

I've spend some details to my Shay yesterday.

I'll do my very best ;-) But I'm still waiting for my order from Walthers. I think it will be at the tariff office (?) at the moment. This evening, I'll try to scratch two waterpumps for my Shays and add some boxes and other stuff to my engine.