"Modern Railtransport": Freight traffic in The Netherlands

A highly interesting film by Herman Wassenaar documenting the "modern railtransport" by NS in The Netherlands.

MTD event in Edegem, Belgium

Valkenveld in the 1970's

In the run-up to the exhibition in Edegem, Belgium on the next weekend, here a shot from Valkenveld in the 1970's. Photo by Marco van Zelst

Progress on smaller, but fun, Elmslohe projects

I was working on smaller projects for the Elmslohe layout: a side building to the station building and a rail scale.

The station side building is almost finished. Still need to apply some details like rain pipes, chimney, do some coloring and weathering, etc. This will be done once I am happy with the led lighting (want to install a whiter led than the current yellowish one).

Construction mania.

A glimps into the small shed where I stalled the station bike.

Night-time glimps.

The Elmslohe weighing scale.

Valkenveld goes international: next exhibition in Belgium

Valkenveld will be exhibited on 19 and 20 October at the MTD event "Modelspoor 2019" in Edegem, Belgium. This is the first appearance of Valkenveld outside The Netherlands. More information here.

A small shed for ELMSLOHE

I finished work on a small freight shed that will be placed somewhere close to the backdrop and team track on the new ELMSLOHE layout. The shed will not have a rail connection, but will be served by trucks.

ELMSLOHE station building

Progress on the construction of the station building for the new ELMSLOHE layout.

Sometimes the small yard on the Valkenveld industrial line is used as overflow storage for the busy Valkenveld Goederen yard. Here NS 2256 drops seven N.A.M. tank cars.

Delft in the 1960s. Image by W.N.T. Jansen. Source: beneluxspoor

A new locomotive for the new layout: DB BR 64 031-8 (Roco 62209, period IV). The locomotive was equipped with an Uhlenbrock decoder and sound by J.F.H. Baron.