Valkenveld, Elmslohe and other Model Railway Adventures: Paul Henken: De spoorweg Lage Zwaluwe

Sonntag, 28. August 2016

Paul Henken: De spoorweg Lage Zwaluwe - 's-Hertogenbosch 1886-2014

I bought Paul Henken's book featuring the "Halvezolenlijn" yesterday at the Expo in Houten for some inspiration on Dutch short lines. Source: railmagazine

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This blog covers the evolution of my H0, H0e (and N) scale model railroading projects.

My VALKENVELD shelf layout is a 150 x 30 cm H0 switching layout based on the classic "Inglenook" concept. It's the 1960's in the fictional town of Valkenveld in The Netherlands. The layout resembles a small yard on a freight-only shortline serving several industries. The layout was exhibited already a couple of times, for example twice at EUROSPOOR in Utrecht (2016 and 2018), at the MTD event in Belgium (2019) and at OMC Hilversum club events.

I am working on two projects at the moment. ELMSLOHE represents a shortline terminus in Northern Germany in the 1960s. The L-shaped layout is 250 x 110 cm plus a fiddle yard.

My other project is KIESGRUBE KLIEBEN, an industrial narrow gauge line of 760mm (H0e) serving a gravel pit. The micro-layout is just 75 x 30cm, thereby fitting into an Ikea Billy shelf. It allows some switching, following my concept of short operation sessions "at the flick of a switch".

I believe that in model railroading "small is beautiful" and can provide lots of building and operational fun. I am therefore particularly interested in small and micro layouts, shelf layouts and switching layouts

See also my Flickr stream on www.flickr.com/photos/dietermarquardt