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americaN module layout - Lauffen 2011

At the Lauffen meeting June 23 to 26 2011, FREMO americaN operated the biggest layout so far: more than 80 m of lenght, with a 50 m main line and two branches. There were 60 engines, 430 cars and 18 cabooses in operation. The time frame was 1975 up to now.

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Dispatcher Stephan

This layout tour is starting from Erehwyna Yard to Moonrise Yard. After that, we walk along the branches.

Erehwyna Yard

Camp Curve

Second Street

Details of Second Street

First set up on the americaN layout: this slack preparation plant is part of Haslingen Steel Group (see module Haslingen Steel)

Liquid slack arrived

South King Street

Colorado Cement

View from Colorado Cement to Haslingen Steel 

Haslingen Steel was at the americaN layout for the first time. It has been built to fit at European and US N scale module layouts with FREMO standards. View from west.

Tank spot for steel mill engines

Haslingen Steel is an electric arc furnace. The biggest amounts of products coming in by rail are scrap and burnt lime. Outgoing products are steel as coils, sheets and tubes, and hot slag. On this plant, metal products of other companies are continued to process, too. Therefore, there is a lot of rail traffic inside this plant.

At this side of the shop, the hot slag cars are pulled out.

Scrap is transported into the shop from the other side.

On the west side of Haslingen steel, this control panel is used.

At the east side, this new computer system is in test, and maybe will replace the old panel on the west side.

Enjoying the job as Haslingen Steel yardmaster.

A train with scrap is arriving.

On the right, scrap is transported into the shop

Detail of the scrap processing. Haslingen Steel is operated from both sides. To use all possibilities of internal and external traffic, three operators are needed. 

At Haslingen Steel, the branch is meeting the main line. This starts at Sarah Creek Yard:

Sarah Creek Yard

west of Chatteris

Chatteris, with Four Oaks in the background

looking back: the grain silos of Chatteris

Highway 61

Passenger station of Haslingen Steel

connection to the steel plant

Hawkins, with Sand Pit Junction on the left

Sand Pit Junction 

Aberdeen Industrial Park, a new module. It was operated by a yardmaster.

Details of Aberdeen Industrial Park

east side of Aberdeen Industrial Park

Detail of the scrap dealer

Diesel Service was operated for the first time, too

Emergency Corner

JK Coal

MoPac Bridge

with illustrations of the prototype

The Gap, and Miller's Crossing

Watkins

Yard Extension

Rocky Point. Watkins, Yard Extension and Rocky Point were operated as a unit, and got a yardmaster.

Rocky Point from the east

following the main line

Two Trestles

Fremont Branch with the connection to the main line, which is on the right. 

Interstate

Luketown, from the west

Luketown, view back from east 

Moonrise Yard, the other fiddle yard of the main line. 

Now, we are looking at the branch line from Rocky Point to Trunklaid Valley:

Oil Straight, which I saw for the first time

another new module, Dixie Hills

and Rick's Cattle, which has been in the layouts for a long time

and another new module: Topton Station

another view of Topton Station

Swift Industries, with Calahan Paper

Cobie Steel

Pacific Highway & Lennox Avenue, another new module

Detail: this side of the module is only 25 cm

and the side to the right only 15 cm, which looks really great if you are looking at eye level

the highway

Speer's Ferry, and KT Feldspar

Trunklaid Valley was the terminus of this branch line.

at the car sorting tables

more information about this great meeting:

• my video page of Lauffen 2011
• FREMO Website Lauffen 2011 
• Description of the planning process for this meeting (in German language)

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