americaN FREMO - modular model railroad in N scale

americaN - Lauffen 2014

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americaN module layout - Lauffen 2014

At the Lauffen meeting October 02 to 05, 2014, FREMO americaN operated the biggest layout so far: 122 module meters!

Participants will come from Sweden and Germany, modules from Sweden and Germany.

Schematic Plan of Lauffen 2014 americaN

Schematic Plan of the americaN country

This was the plan of the layout:

Layout Lauffen 2014 - americaN

The detaillied version as pdf is here.

Layout - Schema Lauffen 2014 americaN

Layout scheme

Details of Planning, all Trains, etc., you will find here

the arriving cars: full of Equipment

die ersten Module kommen in die Halle

the modules are arriving

More modules in the hall, and some are on their legs by now

some modules have specially formed cases for transportation

DCC Besprechung

A DCC dicussion. DCC was running a short time after the layout was set up.

Overview layout

Overview Layout

At Oct. 03, start of first time table was at 09:00 am.

Dispatcher Claus

First dispartcher: Claus

Sarah Creek Yard, americaN

Bernd operating at Sarah Creek Yard

Sarah Creek Yard, americaN

Sarah Creek Yard, Jan and Wilfried

searching for cars to built the trains. Jürgen and Robert

Whitehall, americaN

Whitehall Yard. Oliver, Dirk, Bernd, guest.

Simone, switching Whitehall Yard

Chatteris (NE) in the back, with Stephan.
Yard Extension in , with Jürgen

Stehpan and Wilfried, working at Chatteris

Chatteris, Nebraska (americaN)

Details of Chatteris (NE)

Four Oaks (NE)

Same day, at about 23:00: some engineers and conductors are still working...

Überblick

This is the night shift...

Dispatscher Stephan + Oliver

Dispatcher Stephan + Oliver at night shift

Peter, at Calahan Paper

Lazy Creek Mine, with Robert

Watkins, americaN

Watkins

Watkins: Holdes for Car Cards with Waybills, one for every spot.

CSX engines at Watkins

Job descriptions for the trains pulled by CSX engines, americaN Lauffen 2014

Fremont Branch, americaN

Fremont Branch

Olle working at Chatteris, Jürgen at Yard Extension

Jürgen at Yard Extension, Wilfried at Chatteris

Paper Work at Yard Extension

Marc at 2nd Street (below),

Jan at Haslingen Steel Mill (front)

Haslingen Steel Mill, americaN

Haslingen Steel Mill, Jan sorting cars

Haslingen.

From left to right: Elmar (at Burney Paper), Robin, Andreas, Marc

Per-Olov and Robin, at Haslingen

Elmar, switching at Burney Paper

Michael, switching at Clausen Storage

Premiere at an americaN Meeting: americaN TT

These are the first modules "on stage":

americaN TT

Overview of the set up

Corner, and set up of legs

from the left ...

around the corner (looking from behind)

same corner

AmericaN TT modules

Claus, one of the americaN TT builders, in discussion with Elmar

next Tacoma Branch module (by Peter)

moving to the right

Detail: on top of the backdrop is the place to set up te Car Cards and Data Sheets

4 tracks, on 18 cm. Module by Claus

Photo with all the surroundings, to give an impression of the size

Detail without surroundings, to give an impression of depth

Burney Paper Branch, including Florida Branch

Burney Yard, americaN

Burney Yard

This yard is an

interchange yard (two tracks on the left)
industry support (all other tracks)

Burney Yard is an "Industry Support Yard", built by Marc, according to the principles of railroad operations described in "Industry Spurs: how to coordinate Large Industries, Industry Support Yards and major Classification Yards"

This yard supports an industry railroad which is switching the Burney Paper Mill (behind), and (on this layout) the Florida branch (to the right).

To give an orientation: Burney Paper Mill got "only" 30 cars per day at this FREMO americaN meeting. The limitation was made because the layout system as a whole could not feed more than these 30 cars to this destination.

If the layout has more capacity for this paper mill, Burney mill gets more than 100 cars per day. Therefore, such an industry support yard is essential to operate the mill.

Burney Paper Mill, detail

Burney Paper Mill, overview

View from Burney Yard towards Florida Branch

Florida Chemicals

Florida Chemicals, other spots

Tropicana

Homestead

Homestead, other side

Group photo, left to right: Manfred, Jan, Bernd, Robert, Elmar, Stephan, Olle, Oliver, Marc, Robin, Andreas, Claus, Peter, Per-Olov, Dirk, Jürgen, Wilfried and Michael.