Ein Rundgang zur Vorstellung der Ep. II-Anlage
Bahnhofsfilm 1/x
Sunshine on a Saturday Corona morning, challenging situation to test some video possibilities with my smaller camera as well as with Renate’s Canon. Result one: Too much sun is not good for filming, artificial light makes it easier for the lenses. Good to know: microfones are really good.
The train yard
So that is what it looks like on my right side when I’m sitting in front of my computer: The train yard is there while on the left side of me I’ve got my railway station. Means I seem to sit right in the middle of the action, super situation for a model railway maniac…
Collateral damage while shooting the film – an elbow should avoid a chimney….
Opa läßt einen fahren…
…mit ganz lieben Grüßen an Ava und Jonathan
„Fuchs Du hast die Gans gestohlen“
A sunny Sunday morning in Corona times, let’s do some creative things apart from preparing a beautiful steam engine to be auctioned by ebay, one too many, eleven locomotives of the 50s series are enough, so another one goes on the market to raise funds for new investments, super!
Anyway, just a bit of concentration on a little corner on the left hand side of the station …
Ep.III display: around the station
Let’s have a look at the left hand side of the display, where there is a station building with freight yard, coal merchant etc. as well as some workers‘ houses and a smaller factory building all sorts of machines, of course with a track in the yard to export their products.
No trains passing at this time, but that will change with another shooting….
Ep.III display: An overview
complete room, just filled with a model railway display concentrating on the 1950s and 1960s. I started this roughly ten years ago when Renate’s Mattes moved out to Leipzig. Quite quickly with the help of a friend the general layout was planned and quicker than you can say Jack Robinson the trains could leave their depot on the ground and travel by help of a sort of spiral construction to the surface to hit the main line before disappearing in a tunnel again to rail down to the store. Each direction holds 12 complete trains, some rather long ones, so there are 24 to 25 trains stored.
Apart from the main line on the edge of the display, there are two smaller stations for a branch line which uses the background of the display and passes loads of little manufacturers, smaller factories, a construction market, brick works, and so on before it hits a smaller village called Hagen, amazingly, surrounded by fields and meadows as well as typical farm buildings and farm scenes. The branch line disappears in a tunnel as well and comes back a bit higher in a station called Fredenbeck, where a narrow-gauge railway has got their station Fredenbeck-Süd as well. Again: Farms, meadows and nice scenes like harvesting potatoes, etc.
Sinnige Anlagen 