americaN FREMO - modular model railroad in N scale

americaN - Lauffen 2013

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americaN module layout - Lauffen 2013

At the Lauffen meeting May 09 to 12 2013, FREMO americaN operated one of the biggest layouts so far. Participants came from Sweden, Netherlands and Germany, modules from Sweden and Germany.

For more details, look at the pdf.

Schematic plan

Operations control by dispatchers René and Marc

Claus, Gerd, and Naomi at Haslingen Steel Mill:

A lot of trains at the same time:
We could move the train up to here...

or here...

maybe there?

okay, this will be fine.

then: nearly empty Haslingen Steel interchange yard, but probably only for a short time.

Manfred, Gerd, Bernd, Oliver, Claus

Set up:

Andreas, at around 11:00 h

First impressions of layout, after set up, Thursday night:

view from the stage: left side
Claus, Jan, Wilfried, Marc

right side
Wilfried, Marc, Jürgen, René, Manfred

Watkins, which in this layout is directly besides Yard Extension, seems to be used as car park because Yard Extension got a lot of cars. On the other hand, all engines are busy outside this engine service yard.

Watkins, Some time later, cars are back in Yard Extension, and some engines back.

Watkins in front, Yard Extension in the middle, then 2nd Street

View back, from 2nd Street and Yard Extension to Watkins

2nd Street, with Yard Extension on the left. View towards the branch line.

We now move into this branch line.

2nd Street, with Main Line crossing in front

2nd Street

2nd Street, looking back from the other side

After 2nd Street, the branch passes KT Feldspar, and gets to Florida Chemicals:

Florida Chemical

view of Florida Chemical, Branch Line in front from left to right

next on the Branch Line: Tropicana

and Homestead, with a runaround.

The branch continues to Burney Paper Mill (which I did not take any photos, sorry for that! Have a look at the videos, you will find it there.) and ends at Coors Brewery:

from Golden Branch towards Coors Brewery

What can be found in here? Jens, searching.

Detail of the brewery module:

Yes, this is "N" - scale, module by Elmar Manfroid

End of Branch Line.

Behind: Claus, Marc and Dirk W. are busy at Burney Paper Mill

Lazy Creek Mine, built in Sweden by Olle, had the first set up in an americaN layout:

Lazy Creek Mine, set up by Olle and Per-Olov from Sweden.

Luketown:

Michael with Clinch River Railroad T-Shirt...

switching with Clinch River Railroad engines #21 and #22 and Coal Train "Black in Black" in Fremont Branch

Haslingen Steel Mill:

Claus, Dirk J. and Jan in Haslingen Steel Mill , which had a lot of external and internal traffic.

More photos of Haslingen Steel Mill are here, on an extra page.

Haslingen Steel Mill, an electric arc furnace.
For illustration of steel making, this photo shows the Tapping the electric arc furnace, at Fonderie et Acierie Denain, Denain.
Foto und (c) Uwe Niggemeier, www.stahlseite.de/ Veröffentlicht mit Genehmigung / published with permission

Switching in 2nd Street: