Layout Recycling after Many Years
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Good layouts, modules and dioramas often outlive their owners. Now a piece of Saxony's narrow-gauge railroad has returned to Horst Göhr for repair and redesign.
New Narrow Gauge Models from Proform
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Proform is working on new gauge 1 models for narrow-gauge tracks.
Giessen: Layout Snapshots
by Friedhelm Weidelich
These narrow-gauge systems are still worth seeing, even if they have been exhibited before.
Narrow-gauge Diorama: along the Wall (2)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Detailed relief buildings, vehicles and figures provide the narrow-gauge diorama with a background that holds many a small discovery in store.
Narrow-gauge Diorama: along the Wall
by Friedhelm Weidelich
You can shunt well on a long gauge 1 diorama, especially if you lay narrow-gauge track. 40 photos to stimulate your imagination.
Spur-1-Treffen Speyer: Dr. Pauli's Narrow Gauge Modules
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The modular layout of Dr. Thomas Pauli from Öhringen was exhibited for the first time and had an effect on the visitors of the Liller Halle by something that is rarely found in gauge 1: real operation. "Playing with meaning" was the name given to it once a long time ago by a railroad magazine.
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Internationale Spur 0+1 Tage: Narrow Gauge Layout Berttin
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The model railroad club "Friedrich List" Leipzig e. V. showed in Giessen a narrow gauge diorama integrated into a small layout. Special attention was paid to tiny details.
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Ochsenhausen - a Masterpiece in 1:32 Scale
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Not everyone has the space to document an entire station area in 1:32 scale. In narrow gauge, the stations are naturally smaller. Therefore, a masterpiece was created with the three structures of Ochsenhausen, which spur1info has the chance to show with 44 photos.
A Motorized Field Railway Locomotive
by Gastautor
Field railway kits in 1:35 scale can be equipped with a motorized running gear for 16.5 mm gauge with little effort. Thomas Zeitz shows an example.
Saxon Narrow Gauge in Hamburg (5)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
In the fifth and final part of the report on the Saxon Narrow Gauge Railroad Hamburg we look at the three stations of Wilkaustein, where standard gauge and narrow gauge were cleverly combined. 40 photos.
Saxon Narrow Gauge in Hamburg (4)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Part 4 on the Saxon Narrow Gauge Railway Hamburg deals with an industrial siding, the interlockings on the standard gauge line with three-rail track and a light railroad. A gauge 1 layout can be that diverse. 43 photos.
Saxon Narrow Gauge in Hamburg (3)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The stations Vierenstraße and Venusberg of the large Saxon narrow gauge railroad Hamburg are presented with 34 photos. There are many possibilities for shunting operations here and a locomotive shed in each location. The buildings were self-built after Saxon prototypes.
Saxon Narrow Gauge in Hamburg (2)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The second part describes the development of the module layout of the friends of Saxon narrow gauge railroads in Hamburg. The large 1e narrow gauge layout has ten stations. Three of them are presented in part 2 with 35 atmospheric photos in large format.
Saxon Narrow Gauge in Hamburg (1)
by Friedhelm Weidelich
A large narrow gauge layout based on Saxon models has to be dismantled. For the time being, we take a last look at the gauge 1 module layout, which reproduces the flair of the Saxon narrow gauge railroads of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in the 1970s to 1980s like hardly any other.
Part 1 with 38 photos in large format.
Jöhstadt and More
by Friedhelm Weidelich
A highly detailed Saxon narrow gauge layout is waiting for the detailed presentation. The first photos.
A short visit to Rittersgrün
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The Saxon Narrow Gauge Railway Museum in Breitenbrunn-Rittersgrün in the Ore Mountains, Germany, is well worth a visit.
The Fichtelbergbahn - part 3
by Friedhelm Weidelich
In the third and last part of the report about the Fichtelbergbahn of the Sächsische Dampfeisenbahngesellschaft (SDG), we once again meet steam trains on the way and look at the Hüttenbach Viaduct and the terminus Kurort Oberwiesenthal, which has a nostalgic automat. Two videos complement my photos.
The Fichtelbergbahn - part 2
by Friedhelm Weidelich
In the second part we look again at the station Cranzahl, other small stations at the narrow gauge railway and accompany trains with the camera.
The Fichtelbergbahn - part 1
by Friedhelm Weidelich
The Fichtelbergbahn Cranzahl - Kurort Oberwiesenthal in Saxony overcomes a difference in altitude of 240 meters (789 ft) on a route of 17.4 km (10.8 m) in the Ore Mountains. With steam, of course. We went along for the ride.
A Narrow Gauge Maintenance of Way Car from Saxony
by Friedhelm Weidelich
A refined 3D print was the basis for the Reichsbahn maintenance car from Oberdittmansdorf in Saxony.
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Spechtritz Station from Horst Göhr
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Horst Göhr has built the former station building of Spechtritz on the Saxonian Weißeritz valley railway in 1:32 scale - another masterpiece.
The Water House of Steinbach in Saxony
by Friedhelm Weidelich
Epokemodeller from Denmark no longer offers gauge 1 buildings.Horst Göhr built and worked on one of the last kits of the water house in Steinbach in Saxony.
Practical Couplers for Narrow Gauge
by Friedhelm Weidelich
If you get desperate when coupling 1e narrow gauge vehicles, the model coupling is to blame. Now there is a solution that gives pleasure.