A day and an evening of furious video editing (burning the midnight oil etc) produced a video report of the Valkenburg show:
Part 1 - (most) 009 and H0e layouts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGcUcQKnJk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeGcUcQKnJk)
Part 2 - My layout Nixnie playing host to tiny 009 and H0e models by Hedzer Durksz and Rod Allcock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqgHGxs7EyI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqgHGxs7EyI)
Part 3 - layouts in S and 0 scales and above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C_Jx8O-8AQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C_Jx8O-8AQ)
Part 4 - the moonlight train ride by the participants in the show (needs a bright screen setting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEHp4KfR2k (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEHp4KfR2k)
Part 5 - other layouts not covered in the previous videos, including live steam and the Swiss Trak modular layout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkX34TpL9w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQkX34TpL9w)
And finally, one of Rod's Corris engines running on my own C&DR the night before the show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rxJ2p9DPg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rxJ2p9DPg)
Hope you enjoy the videos! A photo album is here: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2012/gallery37/index.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2012/gallery37/index.htm)
Ted
well worth all your effort, very enjoyable interlude
Peter Smith
Thanks, Peter. Glad you like it.
This morning I added a photo report of the Rijswijk show of the past weekend to the Dutch Group website (http://www.009dutch.nl/). We had an excellent show, although the extreme winter weather played havoc with some participants travelling from far. John Thorne and Richard Bullock exhibited Purbeck, having got across the Channel just before the worst of it hit England. Julian Evison was prevented from joining them as Southampton airport had been shut down. At the moment John and Richard are on their way back - they must have some trouble getting to Calais and what is awaiting them on the other side isn't yet clear to me. Anyway yesterday after the show we had to struggle through horizontally driving snow, ankle deep in places, to load up our cars. The things we sometimes do for our hobby!
The show report album can be accessed after entering our website as follows:
- click on the 009 Society logo
- click on the Union Jack for English
- click on 'recent' and you'll find the show report at the top.
Photo below shows the Mouburg tramway by Dutch 009 Society member Jan van Mourik.
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Today I added another update to the Dutch Group website (http://www.009dutch.nl/). It now features two new project pages. One describing Jaap Stuurman's new Welsh inspired layout, still under construction but fairly advanced, and the other is by Bert van Rhijn who describes his Tralee & Dingle kit conversions as published in the recent 009 News issue.
The new items can be accessed after entering our website as follows:
- click on the 009 Society logo
- click on the Union Jack for English
- click on 'latest changes and news' at the top of the intro page, and you'll find the new items at the top of the list.
This morning I made another update to the Dutch 009 Group website
Today I carried out several updates to the Dutch Group website and the C&DR website. These reflect some of the developments over the past months. One of these describes Bert van Rhijn's Tralee & Dingle horse box that was published in the 009 News recently.
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Short extracts from my recent forum threads on locomotive building will be added to the Dutch Group site in due course.
The new items on the Dutch Group site can be found by clicking the 'latest changes and news' link at the top of this page (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm).
The C&DR website now describes the new locomotives built over the past months. Click on the 'motive power' link in the index to the left of this page (http://www.009dutch.nl/cdr/main/eframe.htm). The new locos are described in the first and third motive power pages. In addition there is something about the new coal wagons in the rolling stock pages. Scroll down through the pages where necessary.
Today I published another update of our website. The new items on the Dutch 009 Group site can be found by clicking the 'latest changes and news' link at the top of this page (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm). They are links to the show reports I made in the first months of this year.
You will also find a piece of sad news as one of our members passed away last week. One or two of you may know R.G.Kittle, known as 'Kit' to us. Originally hailing from South London (Surrey), he made his life in Holland many years ago and was a long time member of the Dutch 009 Group. An obituary is in the News page.
Today I did another update to the Dutch 009 Group website. It isn't so much content as accessibility. Over the past year or so I added many photo albums of shows and events our members and myself visited. In addition I posted albums of my own projects on the site, many photos of which appeared on this forum. I have published a few text pages on our site in which album photos appear, but they have been lagging behind badly.
I now made indexes of all the photo albums and published these on the Dutch Group site. This means all the photos can be viewed.
The site itself is here: http://www.009dutch.nl/ (http://www.009dutch.nl/)
Photo albums of shows and events: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20album.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20album.htm)
An index of (most of) my own project albums: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/etedp.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/etedp.htm)
The latter includes a direct link to the photo album I made during the construction of the Leek & Manifold Kitson (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2013/gallery48/index.htm), which is currently featuring in the 009 News.
Alternatively the new index pages can be found by entering the homepage, clicking on the Union Jack at the foot of the index bar to the left, then clicking on latest changes and news at the top of the introduction page.
Well... it took me an evening of hard work, and the video I am compiling is still on the cooker, but here is my first report of the Valkenburg show.
I probably have missed some layouts since I noticed one or two on the announcement that I cannot find in my photos, but anyway here it is. I will show a few photos from the album. The Billerbahn tinplate layout by Dirk Schambach:
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To my dismay I have no photo of Jacky Molinaro's 1:24 scale 0-4-0 Decauville which will feature in the video, but here is a photo of one of his diesels at work.
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Here is Daheeme in H0e by Michael Staats:
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Halte Weijerweg, H0e, by Gerard vd Weijer:
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Here is my own Rae Bridge, which was operated by Robin and Sue Winter whilst I was off making the photos and video!
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Also, it was the first time I saw Lucien Eijdems' Yurze Ore Mine for real. The fiddle yard is a most ingenious piece of work - it will feature in the video I will publish later this week.
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The full photo album can be found here:
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2014/gallery67/index.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2014/gallery67/index.htm)
Have fun!
An excellent set of photos from what was clearly an excellent show. Thank you for sharing Ted!
Mick
Thanks, Mick. To complete the report on the Valkenburg show, here are two videos I made during the weekend. Roughly they are split between the Saturday and the Sunday. The first one shows the following:
1. Steam train departing Valkenburg station.
2. Layouts shown:
Briqueterie de Saint-Aubin (Jacky Molinaro)
Pontevedro (Don Sibley), showing my own Fourdees GVT loco
Langs het tuinpad van mijn vader (Lars op 't Hof) - a tramway in the east of our country including canals and peat bogs.
3. The evening steam special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYBJvbwVzk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYBJvbwVzk)
The second one shows the following layouts:
Regionale Tramweg Mouburg (Jan van Mourik)
Herberts Crossing (Ren
Thanks to a number of NGRM forum members, some of who are also on this forum, I have been able to introduce an improved style of photo album on the Dutch group website. The main improvement is easy navigation through arrow buttons on the screen and arrow key sensing. The latter was made possible by a piece of Java software given to me by Harry Mantheakis.
The albums are now suitable for viewing on tablets and smartphones.
After several days of editing and re-editing I have re-published all web albums from the start of 2014 in the new format.
Edited: For up to date information see the next post, made two weeks later!
Probably you won't yet have noticed, but I have been doing a lot of work on the Dutch group website. Apart from re-generating numerous photo albums to conform to the new format with arrow navigation (using either the screen buttons and the arrow keys on your keyboard), I have improved the access structure which had become very confusing.
The site now uses two indexes - one on individual project pages, the other on group activities and events.
Members' project pages are accessed from a members' index page. This either brings up a single page, or a personal index accessing all his projects. http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex project.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20project.htm). No difference is made between text pages with photos and generated albums - the access method is the same.
The group events have largely been organised on a year basis, with an introduction page for each year. They include major modelling shows and group visit reports. Anything before 2009 will still have to be reviewed and ordered. http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex group.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20group.htm)
I have decided to change to a larger font size than before, as the small font used previously inevitably got lost on smartphone screens. The change-over has not yet been completed but is evident in several pages. Old text pages and albums with thumbnail photos giving access to enlarged photos will be reviewed over the weeks to come.
I would be grateful for any user input.
http://www.009dutch.nl/ (http://www.009dutch.nl/)
Ted, as a relatively new 009 member this all looks like a treasure trove for me to explore in my spare time!
The structure seems logical, and after a quick walk through it all looks good to me.
Thank you for all your work.
Kind regards, Harry
Thanks, Harry!
I still need to do a number of older photo albums, and the page layout of the older pages has to be brought in line with the newer ones.
Perhaps the index bar to the left needs to be revised for touch screen use, since a button image works better than a text link. But I feel we are making progress.
I have had a quick look with my iPhone.
The two text-links on the home page could do with being 3 x larger for easier use with fingers on a small touch device.
In the Dutch Group website, the index text-links - on the left - could do with being 2-3 x larger.
In the projects list page, the text-links could do with being 2 x larger.
That is all for now - I have to get back to work :)
Thanks, Harry - I think I will try and change to button type links or clickable images.
The main challenge there is to do it in such a way it doesn't detract from using the website on a keyboard device. The experience gained with the photo albums will help, I think.
The text-size changes I suggested should help you determine roughly how big the buttons might be - but only if you want the site to be navigable with a smart-phone.
Thanks, Harry - I am thinking of a button bar with large keys. I have some ideas about size etc. Let me experiment a little. More later.
There are ways (using style sheets) to make a site's appearance change according to the screen size; I have dabbled with it - it can make buttons larger on smaller screens - so they can be pressed by fingers rather than clicked on by a mouse pointer on a larger screen.
Thanks for your idea, Hugh - I will keep it in mind as I have been thinking of scalable screen elements.
But first I'm going to test depressible images for buttons. I found a piece of Javascript code to change one image for another on a mouse click - I suppose the same thing happens when someone taps a touch screen.
The buttons in the index bar (at the moment just containing text links) must be big enough for use on a touch screen, but not too dominating on a normal computer screen.
It may not be modelling, but it is great fun!
Harry & Hugh - I now equipped the start page and the index bar with clickable buttons that 'sink' when you click them. How does this work on a touch screen?
Ted, on my iPhone the buttons are only just big enough to navigate with.
The "push" animation is not evident on the iPhone, but I do not think that is an issue. (I can see the animation on my laptop, and I like it.)
I would urge you to DOUBLE the size of the buttons - on a laptop or a desktop they would still be unobtrusive; on a smartphone they would be easier to use.
Try it and see - keep copies of the smaller ones you have at the moment: switching back would not be too painful.
BTW Hugh was right in suggesting that Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can be used to cater for different screen types - the subject of catering for different media is broadly referred to as "responsive website design" - but I am wary of suggesting you undertake something along those lines simply because I do not have the time to support you!
Kind regards, Harry
Thanks for replying, Harry.
I have tested the new layout on my wife's HTC smartphone and on my son's Samsung. On a phone, the buttons are indeed just big enough to navigate with, and they don't show the animation. However, doubling the size of the buttons would make them very large on a laptop screen - I'm not enthusiastic about that, but I will give it a try. Perhaps CSS can be applied to the way buttons are represented.
I'm not planning to use CSS in the pages themselves as that would mean re-writing the entire site. If I get rid of the table/thumbnail based layout in the existing pages, the text and images will scale on a smartphone screen if you zoom in. And I will need to get rid of the text links in the pages, replacing them by buttons.
So I will concentrate on that first, and on the window management of the present version of the site which I'm not happy with.
Thanks again for your support.
EDIT - I put larger buttons in the index bar, but they fell off the screen of my wife's HTC, so I reduced their size a bit.
Ted, if you go to the link below (Angst-Lesspork) then flick on "Electronics" on the menu, that page is responsive to screen size and will change if the screen drops below some width (which I can't remember at the moment.) When this happens the menu changes shape and the "buttons" get bigger. You can emulate this by resizing your browser window's width.
{Later} the trigger width is 664 pixels
PS It won't work on versions of IE less than 10, but that doesn't include mobile devices
That's very neat, Hugh. Is this applied to the menu bar only, or does it affect the main text frame as well? It looks like the frame set-up is changed so the menu bar moves to the top of the page.
What I was thinking of is having the text pages set up so they follow the available space automatically, and change the frame set-up depending on the size of the screen.
I found a piece of media query code here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13847755/css-media-queries-for-screen-sizes). That might be used to interrogate the device for screen size. But probably you use something else that does the same.
If a screen dependent style can be devised for the menu bar and framing set-up pages only, it's a very simple thing to do. The remaining area is then used by the text page and images.
Quote from: tedp on February 11, 2015, 11:03
If a screen dependent style can be devised for the menu bar and framing set-up pages only, it's a very simple thing to do. The remaining area is then used by the text page and images.
Yes, you can do that - you can used CSS to control any and all of the elements on a page. (Back to work now...)
Ted, I had a quick look into this issue and the first thing to say is: you can ONLY use CSS to change BACKGROUND-IMAGES.
You can do a lot of other things - including re-sizing and re-colouring text and lines - but (sadly) you CANNOT alter the settings of <img> tags.
I though I should tell you this, to stop you hunting around for solutions with respect to <img> tags.
However, if you are game for re-implementing the "buttons" with something that incorporates background-image elements (I do not know what, yet) or possibly do away with images and have text-links (which can be scaled via CSS) I can help you get started with the CSS coding.
Quote from: tedp on February 11, 2015, 11:03
That's very neat, Hugh. Is this applied to the menu bar only, or does it affect the main text frame as well? It looks like the frame set-up is changed so the menu bar moves to the top of the page.
What I was thinking of is having the text pages set up so they follow the available space automatically, and change the frame set-up depending on the size of the screen.
I found a piece of media query code here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13847755/css-media-queries-for-screen-sizes). That might be used to interrogate the device for screen size. But probably you use something else that does the same.
If a screen dependent style can be devised for the menu bar and framing set-up pages only, it's a very simple thing to do. The remaining area is then used by the text page and images.
Ted, would you like me to email you some notes on what I did?
Quote from: Harry Mantheakis on February 11, 2015, 12:25
Ted, I had a quick look into this issue and the first thing to say is: you can ONLY use CSS to change BACKGROUND-IMAGES.
You can do a lot of other things - including re-sizing and re-colouring text and lines - but (sadly) you CANNOT alter the settings of <img> tags.
I though I should tell you this, to stop you hunting around for solutions with respect to <img> tags.
However, if you are game for re-implementing the "buttons" with something that incorporates background-image elements (I do not know what, yet) or possibly do away with images and have text-links (which can be scaled via CSS) I can help you get started with the CSS coding.
Thanks for the offer, Harry, much obliged. I haven't done much in CSS, but I expect I will find my way there - if I run into a problem I'll be happy to ask you. Usually it's a question of adapting something found on the web. I'm a bodger in web design as much as in modelling!
I'm not sure I will want to change settings on an existing page, and I'm really in the process of changing from text to button links (the other way round). What I would probably want is a device-dependent change to a different framing format, using a parallel set of files, since the index bar is an HTML file and the frame split is controlled by a separate file incorporating the 'frameset' operator.
The present format is split left-right, with the vertical menu bar taking up a fixed 125 pixels width. This is OK for computer screen use. On a telephone size screen you'd probably need to change to a different layout as Hugh seems to be doing. His menu changes from a bar on the left with text links to a horizontal bar at the top with button links.
What I propose is that I look at Hugh's implementation first and see where I end up. I'll keep you posted.
Hugh, if you'd be so kind to send me your notes, I'd be very grateful. I think you have my email address?
Some of you may have wondered where I have been. Others may have been glad I've been away, but I'm back!
The reason for this is that during the past weeks I spent whole days at the computer to make a huge change to the Dutch Group website. Often this went on from early morning to late evening. I focused on the early years of the Dutch Group, and the years the late Reinier Hendriksen and myself may well have been the only ones working in 009 in this country. There was no Dutch Group at the time, although Reinier tried to get one off the ground in 1992.
I processed an enormous amount of material and tried to improve access and picture quality. The early years covered are now (roughly) 1990 to 2004. Some of the new material shows early photos by Reinier Hendriksen and 1990s videos of Moors End, which I suppose many of you will be interested in. In view of the huge amount of work, the 2005-2013 pages will have to be postponed, since I will be away in April and time is lacking to complete it beforehand.
Future improvements will concern changes in the website
I have just been given the green light to publish the scanned articles by Reinier Hendriksen in the 009 News, 1992-1999.
The direct link to the history page is here: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/1990/pages/eearlydays.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/1990/pages/eearlydays.htm)
At the bottom there is a button which connects to the PDF files on the website.
This morning I uploaded another revision of the Dutch Group website for the 2005-2006 pages, with new photo albums and a better page layout. In addition, some pages were combined and new ones added containing material I found in the vaults. If you still see an old page, hit F5 to refresh the page.
To sum it up, I have been rebuilding the site since the start of February to improve access and readability. There is a lot of interesting archive material in there, some of which almost couldn
Thank you Ted!
Today I uploaded the changed pages for the years 2007-2008 to our website. This includes show reports and project pages. The following pages may be of special interest:
Craig & Mertonford Locomotives Abroad (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2008/pages/epdh.htm), describing the visits made by several Craig & Mertonford locomotives to my layout, several of these having been restored by Rod Allcock. The page includes video buttons featuring short video clips of several of P.D.Hancock's locos at work.
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2007 show reports (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2007/pages/eevents.htm) including photos of the late Tony Mortlock's 'Schmerz an der Oggel'. Another of Tony's layouts is 'Hayesden', featured in the 2006 show reports (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2006/pages/eevents.htm). Click on the Valkenburg album buttons to view the photos in these pages.
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Interesting projects for 2007 are Jan van Mourik's 'Uivernest (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2007/pages/euivernest.htm)', Henk Wust's Mariah (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2007/pages/emariahohe.htm)
The Dutch Group website has finally been updated.
I managed to get all the events pages in line with the new format started last winter. In addition, the latest events attended by members of the Group have been added to the 2015 page - the Valkenburg show, our visit to the RTM steam tram and my visit to the railways of the Frisian islands. They were all mentioned on the forum, but now I have assembled all the links to photo albums and videos in one page. In addition, all the photo albums accessible from the site are now to the new easily browsed format.
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There is still a lot of work to be done. In a few albums the captions have to be added again, and there are several project pages that have to be re-written. There is some new material that hasn't yet been processed, including Henk Wust's new 'heresy', Smeerdijk - a chemical industry complex served by standard gauge that may be known to several forum members.
English language access here: http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm)
Please report any dead links or bugs encountered.
Another update of the Dutch 009 Group website. I now re-wrote most of the project pages since 2009. Pages updated are the ones by Jan van Mourik, Bert van Rhijn and Jaap Stuurman.
Jan van Mourik describing Mouburg as it has appeared on exhibitions in recent years: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ejavamo.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ejavamo.htm)
Jaap Stuurman describing his Welsh-inspired layout Mae'n ddrwg gen i which appeared at Chatham in 2013. http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ejaap.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ejaap.htm)
Of particular interest to rolling stock builders will be Bert van Rhijn's rolling stock projects which once appeared in the 009 News. Four pages of interest (construction tutorials) from a master rolling stock builder: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ebert.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/ebert.htm)
What's left to do now is the five Nixnie pages which wil follow in due course. ::)
P.S. the whole site is accessible from here: http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm)
And finally, after many days and weeks of work, I'm happy to announce that the Dutch Group website has been re-structured. Probably in a few cases something has been forgotten, such as captions in photo albums, or I may have left foreign language texts in place here and there, but these will pop up soon enough.
The last pages to be upgraded were those describing the construction of Nixnie.
The site can now be used with far more browsing devices than it used to - it will even display on most mobile phones. I hope you like the new format.
Now I can finally go back to modelling... I hope... although there are several new projects to be added soon. ::)
http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm)
The Dutch Group website has been updated with the reports on Expong and various local excursions we made last weekend, including photo albums and video.
Direct links:
http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/main/eframe.htm)
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2015/pages/eevents.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2015/pages/eevents.htm)
Yesterday, January 30th, we had an excellent meeting of the Dutch Group, the first of its kind for a long time, with about 15 members attending at my place in Leiden. Several had managed to travel from as far afield as Maastricht and Groningen - three hour journeys.
Here are a few photos.
Jaap Stuurman's new layout - the tar and oil depot, is taking shape. Note the beautiful ships and industrial scene:
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An Emmett-like bash of the Backwoods steam railcar by Len de Vries, who had been invited by Gerbrand Haans:
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Glyn Valley time at Nixnie. Bert van Rhijn's kit-built GVT locos next to my Fourdees model:
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Bert's freelance tram engine Glyndwr leaning into the curve at Dunalistair:
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Some scratchbuilt 0 scale narrow gauge models by new Dutch Member Wolter Daniels, who wants to go into 009 or H0e:
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A radio controlled and 3D printed H0e Henschel 'Fabia' by Hedzer Durksz - Hedzer is combining two 21st Century technologies into his tiny models, and they do work very well:
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Radio-controlled Deutz diesel at work in Dunalistair:
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New member Marco Balk brought two Fourdees GVT locos, which together with mine made quite a crowd at Nixnie:
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Michael Staats is building a miniature brickworks layout. His Minitrains Gmeinder is now fitted with a DCC chip:
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Rob Reinders brought his 'briefcase' layout - a U-shaped piece of track on which a diesel railcar does an automatic sequence:
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And here is Jan van Mourik's scratchbuilt Fairlie speeding out of Dunalistair, heading my L&B coaches:
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Finally, we became a little silly and ran Jan van Mourik's converted Amsterdam city tram (by Atlas Editions, with a Kato chassis) up Creag Dhubh. Here it is seen groaning up the Ridge:
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The most important thing that must have come out of this meeting was the decision to turn more attention to local activities, next to the annual meeting and one or two excursions. The travelling distance is very great for some of our members, and it's not an easy thing to scrape together a large number of members for regular full size meetings. So what will be added? Think of small local group meetings and projects, and operating nights on working layouts. We are going to make an inventory of address 'clusters' on a map of the country, and work from there.
The full report including a photo album is here:
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/eevents.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/eevents.htm)
A video is being prepared.
A video has been published here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3XcBOrsBw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3XcBOrsBw)
Some very nice work by the members of the Dutch group.
I can understand the difficulty of getting members together over long distances. Members of the Great Lakes HOn30 group are as far as 500 mi (800 km) apart. We set up the layout together about 2-3 times a year. "Local" gatherings still involve 2+ hour drives for some.
Jeff S.
Thanks Jeff. 500 miles! 200 is more like the maximum over here, but still it's too much. Anyway, we are already planning more local activities, which in our case involves 1-hour drives at the most.
Today I added web pages to our website describing The Corn Mill, by Henk Wust and John & Jane Jacobs, and the new (mainly standard gauge) industrial layout called Smeerdijk, by Henk Wust and Jan van Mourik. Text, diagrams and photos mainly by Jan van Mourik.
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The pages can be found here:
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20project.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20project.htm)
Specifically:
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/ecornmill.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/ecornmill.htm)
http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/esmeerdijk.htm (http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2016/pages/esmeerdijk.htm)
Stunning!
Ted,
I have to say there are some real artists in the Dutch group! We know of course your work which we can admire in regular updates - but being on a business trip I had time in the evenings to scroll also through the pictures of the others. I love the industrial scenes - especially what has been created at Smeerdijk and Mariahoehe. Would be happy if I could produce a layout in such a quality...
Henk Wust is our true scenic wizard. He doesn't just model a tree, but he models tree species - oak, beech, you name it.