Dutch Group show reports and website updates

[tedp]

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

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

Part 3 - layouts in S and 0 scales and above
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

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

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

Hope you enjoy the videos! A photo album is here: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2012/gallery37/index.htm

[petersmith1942]

Ted
well worth all your effort, very enjoyable interlude
Peter Smith

[tedp]

Thanks, Peter. Glad you like it.

[tedp]

This morning I added a photo report of the Rijswijk show of the past weekend to the Dutch Group website. 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.

[tedp]

Today I added another update to the Dutch Group website. 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.

[tedp]

This morning I made another update to the Dutch 009 Group website

[tedp]

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.



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.

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. 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.

[tedp]

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. 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.

[tedp]

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/

Photo albums of shows and events: http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/eindex%20album.htm

An index of (most of) my own project albums: 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, 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.

[tedp]

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:



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.



Here is Daheeme in H0e by Michael Staats:



Halte Weijerweg, H0e, by Gerard vd Weijer:



Here is my own Rae Bridge, which was operated by Robin and Sue Winter whilst I was off making the photos and video!



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.



The full photo album can be found here:

http://www.009dutch.nl/archive/2014/gallery67/index.htm

Have fun!

[MickT]

An excellent set of photos from what was clearly an excellent show. Thank you for sharing Ted!

Mick

[tedp]

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

The second one shows the following layouts:

    Regionale Tramweg Mouburg (Jan van Mourik)
    Herberts Crossing (Ren

[tedp]

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!

[tedp]

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. 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

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/

[Harry Mantheakis]

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